In mid-April Pip Hare, one of MIN’s favourite IMOCA skippers, made the shocking announcement that her team was facing the reality of having to halt preparations for this year’s Vendée Globe. It was, and is, facing funding woes. “What happens after June is at risk unless I can bring more funding into the campaign,” Hare […]
British sailor Pip Hare has been rescued by the RNLI after running aground off Cornwall. “I am pretty devastated about everything that happened. I managed to sleep through a lot of alarms and run aground off the coast of Cornwall on my delivery home from the Return to Base race,” Hare says. The incident happened […]
The structural assembly of the deck and hull of the 60-foot foiling OceansLab IMOCA, a third evolution Manuard design, has now been completed at Pauger Carbon Composites’ boatyard in Hungary. Sustainable sports management company OceansLab has confirmed its race boat will compete in the IMOCA Globe Series exclusively with zero fossil fuels aboard, emitting only […]
Sustainable sports management company OceansLab has partnered with clean energy firms Genevos, Oceanvolt and Maxeon Solar Technologies in its campaign to become the ‘world’s first hydrogen-electric race yacht’. The OceansLab race boat will compete in the IMOCA Globe Series exclusively with zero fossil fuels aboard, emitting only water as a hydrogen fuel cell by-product. Key […]
British yachtsman Phil Sharp has revealed details of a new zero-emission hydrogen-powered IMOCA, ahead of the 2024 Vendée Globe race. This new monohull, designed by French sailboat design office Manuard, is currently under construction at Black Pepper Yachts in Nantes. The shipyard says the build uses existing moulds that have been recycled and reworked. Due […]
Dates for all eight stopovers, as well as a new fly-by past Kiel in Germany, have now been confirmed for the 14th edition of The Ocean Race. The Ocean Race 2022-23 will visit nine international cities over a six-month period, with leg one starting from Alicante, Spain, on 15 January 2023. The start of the […]
The first three Vendée Globe boats are now into the Pacific Ocean and have passed the midpoint of the race course. Yannick Bestaven, in Maître Coq IV, has held the lead for over 24 hours now, more than 100 miles up on Thomas Ruyant on LinkedOut. Eighth placed, Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée 2), plans to stop on remote Macquarie Island to […]
Yannick Bestaven had already taken a lead when fate dealt Thomas Ruyant a terrible blow last night. At around 9pm the LinkedOut skipper felt his boat “going to the heap”, nose diving into the waves uncontrollably. Thomas soon realised all was not well at the bow of his boat. Slowing almost to a stop, he found […]