vendée globe

  Just four days after arriving in the French port of Les Sables d'Olonne with the Open 60 Spirit of Canada, Derek Hatfield and the Spirit of Canada Team are proud to announce that Algimouss will become the premier ...

I am writing this blog surrounded by all the spares and food which Seb will take him for the Vendee Globe.  The last two weeks has seen everything for the race come together in the office, and slowly the ...

Roxy skipper Sam Davies recounts her three days of intense Open 60 training out of the Figaro training centre

Hello From Spirit of Canada. Happy weekend everyone. Please forgive the absence of position reports; we have suffered a computer melt down on shore but thanks to one of our strong sponsors, Panasonic Canada, we are back up and ...

  It is just a couple of weeks now until Dee and Aviva depart for Les Sables d’Olonne, France, where the Vendée Globe race starts and finishes. This week the Aviva Ocean Racing team have been busy with final ...

With only 45 days to go to the start of the sixth edition of the solo non-stop round the world Vendée Globe race on 9th November, the BT Open 60 team will be providing weekly updates previewing the boat, ...

Latest News from the BT60 team.

Spirit of Canada has officially reached the half way point in the Atlantic crossing to France. We have had some fantastic sailing including a typical north Atlantic low pressure system on Monday that saw the barometric pressure drop from ...

We are just finishing day 3 on the delivery of Spirit of Canada to France and the start line of the Vendee Globe on November 9th. We have sailed just under 700 miles since leaving Halifax Thursday afternoon and ...

  Spirit of Canada and Team are finally on their way to France and the start of the Vendee Globe on November 9th The team left Halifax today to a warm farewell from the Royal Nova Yacht Squadron who ...