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Yachting World 0shares Pip Hare fulfilled a lifelong dream when she finished the Vendée Globe, the first British skipper in this year's event, though the race was also her toughest challenge yet. Pip recounts her experiences. The Vendée Globe race was everything I ever dreamed it could be, and more. It challenged me every day, it made me scream with laughter, it brought me to my knees with physical fatigue and the emotional agony of disappointment. But there is not one single day I did not want to be exactly where I was. It had been a hard battle to get to the lin...

Taking on his first ever race in the Figaro Beneteau class over the coming days, 21 year old Barcelona skipper Pip Costa has partnered with the experienced British Will Harris, 26, as co-skipper for the Sardinha Cup which started this afternoon off the Vendée town of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. Like others in the 21 strong fleet, the duo are preparing for next month's Transat en Double Concarneau-Saint Barthelemy which will be the first Transat yet for the Figaro Beneteau 3 class. After finishing eighth in the 2019 Mini Transat as Costa embarks on the next chapter of his solo and short-handed...

2020-2021 Vendée Globe much more than just a success by Vendée Globe 15 Mar 19:49 GMT Against an unprecedented global health context which brought on many unique challenges, the ninth edition of the Vendée Globe emerged as a triumph, uniting, inspiring and engaging a wider audience than ever before. The Vendée Globe is always an extraordinary adventure, each edition is unique but none more so than this ninth race, which proved to be particular in the range and depth of the sporting stories, the organisation of the Start Village, the start itself and the finishes. The first...

Didac Costa's burning love for the Vendee Globe by Vendée Globe 15 Feb 10:09 UTC He may be relatively small in stature, quiet and reserved in nature but the Catalan fire-fighter Didac Costa once more captured the hearts and minds of the Les Sables d'Olonne public and ocean racing fans when they watched his return back to the Vendée Globe race dock today after taking 20th place on his second consecutive Vendée Globe, his third back to back non stop round the world race. When he had to return back to the start less than an hour into his race in November 2016, his counterparts from th...

Barcelona's Didac Costa (One Planet One Ocean) finishes 20th in his second Vendée Globe by Vendée Globe 13 Feb 20:59 UTC 13 February 2021 Catalonian firefighter Didac Costa finished his second Vendée Globe solo round the world race this evening at 19:47:03hrs UTC, crossing the line off Les Sables d'Olonne in 20th place in an elapsed time of 97d 06hrs 27m 03s. When he set off with the record sized field of 33 solo skippers on Sunday 8th November, the quiet, humble skipper from Barcelona was hoping to beat his 108d 19hrs time on the 2016-17 race and to get closer to the...