60-foot monohulls (18.28 m hull), raced solo, double-handed or crewed around the world.
Ambrogio Beccaria reached the Azores on 8 November after his fall aboard Allagrande Mapei: no fracture was diagnosed, but he has a severe muscle contusion of the chest. Jérémie Beyou suffers fractures. In the Golden Globe Race, Guy deBoer was airlifted off Spirit by the Brazilian Navy on 8 November.
Four days after the start, depressions and missing trade winds are slowing the Route du Rhum. Tom Laperche (SVR-Lazartigue) leads the Ultims, under two days from Guadeloupe, with Guirec Soudée fourth. Guillaume Pirouelle (Sogestran - Seafrigo) leads the Class40s and Corentin Horeau (MACSF) the IMOCAs, where Boris Herrmann (Malizia 4) is second, 145 miles back.
A low expected from tonight, with up to 40 knots, weighs on a race already marked by capsizes and retirements. In IMOCA, Corentin Horeau (MACSF) leads Boris Herrmann by 231 miles at 16:30 UTC. In Ultim, Tom Laperche leads Thomas Coville by 170 miles. In Ocean Fifty, Basile Bourgnon is ahead.
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa extends its backing of Damien Seguin through the 2028 Vendée Globe, where he will race the Imoca that finished 15th last edition.
