Latest news about Sam Davies and her epic sailing exploits. South coast marine news related to Sam’s latest sailing campaigns.
Clarisse Crémer, the Vendée Globe competitor who came 12th overall in 2020/2021, and was the first woman to complete that iteration and became a record holder in the process, has been dropped by her sponsor Banque Populaire. And now, a blame game is taking place on social media as both organisations, the bank and the […]
Today is International Women’s Day. This day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. The campaign theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is ‘choose to challenge’, to call out inequality. This can mean many things to many people, like for example, […]
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 […]
Having slowed down yesterday evening to assess the damage and make repairs to his port side foil system, Charlie Dalin and Apivia have dropped to third place. Losing over 120 miles to his two nearest rivals Thomas Ruyant and Yannick Bestaven, Dalin appears to be back in race mode and making over 14kts south eastwards […]
Charlie Dalin, who’s been leading the Vendée Globe since the 23rd November, last night reported damage to his port foil system. At around 1800hrs UTC, while sailing in the Indian Ocean approximately 900 miles south west of Tasmania, and leading the fleet by 65 miles, Dalin heard a loud noise. Slowing the boat to assess […]
As if to prove that his slow speeds were indeed down to a prolonged dose of light winds and not any technical problems, Vendée Globe race leader Charlie Dalin lit the afterburners on Apivia yesterday afternoon and enjoyed his fastest spell of his time in the last 1,000 miles of the Indian Ocean, making sustained […]
After being rescued from his liferaft six days ago by fellow competitor Jean Le Cam, PRB skipper Kevin Escoffier was plucked from the Indian Ocean by the French Marine National after jumping clear of his rescuer’s IMOCA 60 in a carefully choreographed manoeuvre early yesterday morning some 360 nautical miles north of the remote Crozet […]
An online debate about the safety of the Vendée Globe and the extent of damage already experienced is raging. Although, no doubt, investigations will take place post race for Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss, Sébastien Simon’s Arkea Paprec, Sam Davies’ Initiatives Coeur, Thomas Ruyant’s LinkedOut and Jérémie Beyou’s Charal who’ve all hit UFOs, MIN has rounded-up […]
In a briefly worded facebook post the team at Initiatives Coeur has announced that Sam Davies hit an unidentified floating object, early yesterday evening. Thankfully Davies isn’t hurt. She is heading north at low speed to inspect her boat and assess the damage with her team. (Image left from 28Nov, and above from Sep20) Listen […]
Sébastien Simon’s Arkea Paprec has collided with a UFO this morning. Reports state that Sébastien Simon is not injured but his starboard foil is damaged: the low wedge (low fulcrum of the foil, junction between the foil and the boat) and the foil well (it is in this well that the foil crosses the boat) are no longer […]