This sailor won a round-the-world race while battling cancer

As Charlie Dalin set out on sailing’s most difficult race, a grueling 24,000-mile solo journey around the world called the ...

He was diagnosed with cancer, then won a 24,000-mile sailing race

Charlie Dalin kept his illness a secret, treating himself with immunotherapy pills on a 64-day journey around the world. What ...
Sailing World

Vendée Globe and The Great Pursuit

There are so many things that can go wrong over the nearly 30,000 miles of the Vendée Globe: routing and tactical errors, boat breakages, collisions, sheer bad luck—you name it. And that’s why ...
Vendée Globe

Élodie Bonafous, a figure of the new generation

Ellen MacArthur, because she was the one who inspired my dream of competing in the Vendée Globe. And then Armel Le Cléac'h, ...
Washington Times

France’s Violette Dorange, the youngest Vendee Globe finisher, is a social media sailing sensation

LES-SABLES-D’OLONNE, France — Anyone watching the celebrations at the end of Violette Dorange’s solo circumnavigation would have thought she won the Vendee Globe. Tens of thousands of enthusiastic ...
Reuters

Dorange becomes youngest sailor to complete Vendee Globe at 23

Feb 9 (Reuters) - At 23-years-old, Violette Dorange became the youngest sailor to finish the Vendee Globe after completing the gruelling solo round-the-world yacht race on Sunday. Dorange completed ...