Vendée Arctique - The Full Story

It was always an ambitious plan - A race for some of the world's top solo sailors that would take them and their advanced IMOCA60 offshore monohulls from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne on the west coast of France, around Iceland and back. A race course that would be strewn with challenges with risk. And a race course that had never been tried before. But this was also a race with a twist, a race that would be an important qualifier for some of those looking to enter the non stop solo race around the world in 2024, the Vendee Globe Race. There was plenty hanging on the race around Iceland. PlanetSail covered this race as it played out, so if you weren't watching blow by blow at the time, here's the compilation of our reports.