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Golden Globe Race: loïc Lepage saved and sent to the Canary Islands

Randall G. Lucchesi

Frenchman Loic Lepage (Loïc Lepage), whose boat has suffered a disaster to the South-West of Australia from October 20 about noon on 23 October, was rescued by a Japanese freighter Shiosai. This is the official website of the race. The yachtsman comes to Shiosai to Las Palmas (Canary Islands) where the ship was heading originally. It is expected that the ship will arrive at the port on November 22. Recall that around noon on October 20 the three-meter waves and Read more

Alex Thomson will go to the Vendee Globe in a “solar” IMOCA 60

Randall G. Lucchesi

British yachtsman Alex Thomson (Alex Thomson) announced the beginning of the development together with Oceanvolt new “green” Hugo Boss IMOCA 60 racing in the circumnavigation of single Vendée Globe in 2020-2021 years. Thomson intends not just to participate in the regatta on the boat on solar energy and win it. The statement was published on the official website of the athlete. It is planned that the new motor yacht will be powered only by solar panels that install on the Read more

Gloden Globe Race: the Cape of Good Hope got reduced to ten men

Randall G. Lucchesi

Only 10 of the 18 participants single round of the regatta Golden Globe Race around the Cape of Good Hope — the first of the three capes route length of 30 miles. They need to cross the cold, inhospitable southern part of the Indian ocean, bypassing the archipelagos of Crozet and Kerguelen on the way to Cape Luwin. Heads the Navy still 73-year-old Jean-Luc van den Heede (Jean-Luc Van Den Heede). 36 Matmut. He is a week ahead of nearest Read more