Route du Rhum
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Team Foncia
New Open 60 and MOD70 for Desjoyeaux until 2014
Involved in sailing sponsorship for the past 10 years, Foncia remains faithful to both this commitment and its skipper Michel Desjoyeaux, with the renewal of their partnership through to 2014. The next four years will be devoted to the launch of two ambitious and innovative projects: the construction of a new 60 foot Imoca Imoca #IMOCA to (...) -
Trimaran Sodeb’O
Thomas Coville : "the boat will become lighter"
The skipper of Sodeb’O certainly won’t be at home very much in 2010. Indeed Thomas Coville is announcing an ambitious and dense sailing programme, which is set to include two round the worlds and four transatlantics on three hulls. That amounts to over 67,000 (...) -
Route du Rhum
Brit Sharp wins Class 40 first top transat
25 years old Brit Phil Sharp wins the Route du Rhum – La Banque Postale after 18 days 10 hours 21 minutes et 18 seconds of race. His average for the crossing is: 8.01 knots. Sharp steps indeed into Dame Ellen MacArthur’s tracks as she was the first English entry to win the famous Transatlantic race in 1998 on an Open 50 – she (...) -
Route du Rhum – La Banque Postale
74 solo sailors left St Malo for Guadeloupe
At 13:02 sharp, after one week of final preparations for one of the hardest and most competitive solo-racing competitions, the 74 skippers are finally out at sea, freeing themselves from the earth constraints. At the order of the race committee, the colored multihulls and monohulls sterns’ cut the 2 mile-long starting line and headed (...) -
Route du Rhum - La Banque Postale
A History of Rhum seasons
The Route du Rhum is the most famous single-handed Transatlantic race, born in 1978 from the creative mind of Michel Etevenon. Thanks to an exciting race and an amazing finish, (98 seconds separated Mike Birch’s Olympus Photo from its nearest competitor, Michel Malinovski’s Kriter V), the first edition made the race very famous, (...) -
SeaSailSurfer of the month
Ellen MacArthur SeaSailSurfer of November 2002
Has Ellen MacArthur won The Route du Rhum 2002? Or did she only won the Open 60 monohull division? She has certainly won the most important class at the start and the biggest one at the arriving... And everybody will remember that she took the ’line honours’ has say Anglo-saxon sailors. For these reasons, Ellen is the SeaSailSurfer (...) -
Route du Rhum
Mike Birch finishes his seventh Route du Rhum
At the ripe old age of 71 a surprisingly spritely Mike Birch crossed the finish line this evening Guadeloupe time at 20 hours, 16 minutes and eight seconds 30 November, 0016:08 GMT 1 December at an average speed Speed #speedsailing on a direct course of 6.87 knots. A flotilla of respectful cheering faces out on the water came to see in the (...) -
Route du Rhum
Nick Moloney breaks MacArthur’s ’98 record by nearly two days
Isle of Wight based yachtsman Nick Moloney sailed his 50-foot yacht ASHFIELD HEALTHCARE into the history books today, winning class 2 of the gruelling Route du Rhum solo transAtlantic yacht race, and broke the race record Record #sailingrecord at the same time. -
Route du Rhum
Joé Seeten was the latest to cross the finish line
The Route du Rhum expresses elements of stress, hardship, tension and also pure pleasure. In this exceptional solo race the skippers experience moments of intensity that are difficult to explain to those who have not been there. Six boats have finished in Guadeloupe, but there are still 24 skippers who continue to experience these (...) -
Route du Rhum
Michel Desjoyeaux wins the 60’ multihulls divison
Michel Desjoyeaux on Géant takes victory this Saturday 23 November in the Route du Rhum 2002 in the 60 foot ORMA multihull class. Charging at full speed Speed #speedsailing over the finish line, hundreds of boats were cheering on the French hero in the late afternoon in (...)
Course en solitaire entre St Malo et Pointe à Pitre en Guadeloupe.
Organisée par Pen Duick SA.
Créée par Michel Etévenon en 1978
Classes : Ultime • IMOCA • Multi 50 • Class40
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Palmarès : 2006
Organisée par Pen Duick SA.
Créée par Michel Etévenon en 1978
Classes : Ultime • IMOCA • Multi 50 • Class40
Site
Palmarès : 2006