More than 30 skippers gunning for the 2016 Vendee Globe

Another winning ticket for thedailysail in this year's Artemis Challenge on Francois Gabart's Vendee Globe winner

Latest solo star on coming back to earth post-Vendee and on IMOCA developments

With Hugo Boss' Alex Thomson, we look at the major overhaul decided at last week's AGM

The British skipper on how keel fairings, broke ballast tanks and major surgery on his hydrogenerators nearly kept him from reaching LSD

Alex Thomson and others tell of Hugo Boss' third place in the Vendee Globe

Francois Gabart - former Optimist National Champion, engineer, Figaro sailor, now Vendee Globe winner

Designers VPLP-Verdier, Technical Manager Antoine Gautier and others tell us about the Vendee Globe-winning boat

Joerg Riechers tells us of graduating up from the Mini and Class40

On the dismasting and on MACIF and Banque Populaire fight for the front

Autopilot developments are part of the reason the IMOCA 60s are achieving their massive daily runs

The former Artemis Offshore Academy scholarship winner on his Figaro campaign and Vendee 2016 plans

The former Bahrain Team Pindar skipper gives his assessment of the solo round the world race

The Hugo Boss skipper on the race so far, his lamination skills and protesting TSS violators

Vincent Lauriot Prevost and Quentin Lucet on some surprising developments with their latest designs

Thoughts on the union with Keith Mills, going one design and going eco

We learn more about the OSM-IMOCA deal and look at the problems it will face

Brisk start for the Vendee Globe fleet