An unprecedented edition


As predicted in our last issue the ninth edition of the non-stop solo race around the globe had an unparalleled finish with only 19 hours separating the first to the eighth boat, and a winning skipper who was not the first to cross the line in Les Sables d’Olonne because of the redress given to the three competitors asked by the race director to interrupt their race to help with the rescue of Kevin Escoffier. The redress was a deduction in their


The 2020-2021 Vendée Globe had it all… Patrice Carpentier Finally Yannick Bestaven (Maître CoQ


IV) won the 2020-21 Vendée Globe, while Charlie Dalin (Apivia) was to remain the first skipper to cross the finish line of a stunning round-the-world race. For Antoine Mermod, president of the


overall finishing time of six hours for Boris Hermann, 10 hours and 15 minutes for Yannick Bestaven and 16 hours and 15 minutes for Jean Le Cam.


42 SEAHORSE


Imoca class: ‘This Vendée Globe will stay as one of the biggest events in the history of the Imoca class… Everyone who has fol- lowed the incredible battle of the last few days – where five skippers had a chance of winning after 80 days at sea – will agree with me that it was an exceptional race… ‘We saw the very best of solo offshore racing with skippers in touch from one end


of the course to the other and from the front to the back of the fleet.’ Charlie Dalin crossed the Sables


d’Olonne finish line on 27 January after 80d 6h 15m 47s of solo racing around the world (six days more than the record set by Armel Le Cléac’h on Banque Populaire VIII in 2017). At 36 years old and for his very first Vendée Globe, the skipper of Apivia lived up to his status as a great favourite as he led the race for 48 per cent of the time! Dalin’s great skill as a regatta sailor and


technician plus a superb mastery of strategy was continually on display during these


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