2016/2017 Vendée Globe: Around the World Solo nonstop and unassisted
28-10-2016
The Vendée Globe is nowadays the only sailing race around the world solo, nonstop and unassisted. The event is in the spirit of the Golden Globe in 1968 that initiated the first solo circumnavigation, nonstop and the three capes (Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn).
The first 7 editions, that the public now called 'the Everest of the Seas', allowed 138 sailors to take the start of the Vendée Globe, f...
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