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Now that the deconstruction of the recently completed Vendee Globe has begun, Steve White's story has to rank as the most improbable of ...

Link to the BBC interview where both Sam Davies and Dee Caffari appeared; Ninety minutes of sleep

Dee Caffari, our other women in the duo we've been following around the world, finished in sixth on Sunday. She was three hours behind f...

Sam Davies finished third across the line, crossing early Saturday morning. She will drop to fourth, as it looks like Marc Guillemot, with h...

Both are in the North Atlantic. Sam Davies has a good chance at taking third since Marc Guillomot, who was a strong third, has had his keel ...

While I was in sunny but chilly Florida, Michel Desjoyeaux on Foncia won the Vendee Globe around the World race. He is known as "The Pr...

We've been following closely, Dee Caffari's travails with her disintegrating mainsail . It still seems to be shedding large bits of...

I mentioned Dee Caffari hadn't had a surfeit of videos recently, so in the interest of fairness, here is the latest video of Dee now mak...

Time for an update. Sam Davies on Roxy has rounded Cape Horn and been in the Atlantic for some time. At present Sam is about on the same lat...

For the three or four regular readers of this blog, it is easy to deduce that I'm following the two women on the Vendee Globe Around the...

As I said before, if you magically dropped me on an Open 60 in the Southern latitudes, I would be desperately making a beeline to the neares...

Yann Eliès suffered a severe fracture of the femur while changing sails on his Open 60 "Generali" and is awaiting rescue by the Au...

Most of the time, video posts from the Vendee Globe competitors have a relatively sunny flavor to them, even when all hell is breaking loose...

I really should be writing Christmas cards but in true Internet armchair warrior fashion, I am sipping one of my favorite stouts, Brooklyn B...

Anybody reading this blog will figure out that I've been following the Vendee Globe Round the World Singlehanded Race pretty closely. Wi...

The Vendee Globe fleet is in the Southern Ocean now, racing at the bottom of the world, in large wind and waves, aiming toward Australia, Ne...

Because the headsails on an Open 60 are all on furlers, all sails are stored rolled up. Dee Caffari gives a good overview.

One of the two women racing this singlehanded round the world, Dee Caffari gives an interesting tour of the navigation area in these Open 60...

Vendee Globe, the singlehanded around the world race, is now underway. The leaders are approaching the bottom of Africa. The Vendee Globe do...