If the back half of the fleet has been imprisoned by an expansive bubble of light and shifty winds, we need to be thankful for our...

Given the wide variety in the age and performance of the boats and skippers in this race it's normal that there will be breakaways,...

At 45000 kilometers, the Vendee Globe, by any measure, is an immense challenge. There is no other sporting event in the world that...

I'm out! On Foresight Natural Energy I'm now barrelling southwards on an upwind course to Recife, the eastern corner of Brazil. The...

So yesterday I started off my live conversation with the Vendee press corps by saying that I had suffered a terrible technical problem...

Conrad was live in the the Vendée Globe show, you can watch it again here Picture below by Christophe Breschi, take on the boat before...

What a difference 24 hours can make at sea. Yesterday I was still flying along under spinnaker, instantly regretting moving back to the...

A week already?! At least that's the number on my fod bag so I guess it must be. I have been so busy down here I haven't seen the time...

The race has splintered into the expected groups with a breakaway group led by Armel on Banque Populaire and including all the new...

Looking to see land on the horizon after several days at sea always has the same effect... The salty mariner in question is transfixed by...