The 26 Class40s are in the process of returning to the Transat Jacques Vabre race course, setting sail from Roscoff on the north Brittany coast in the early hours of this morning.

Big conditions on the Bay of Biscay have taken their toll with Loïc Fequet and Loïc Escoffier's Multi 50 Maitre Jacques sustaining damage to the front of their trimaran's starboa

A day and a half into the Transat Jacques Vabre, the Class40 fleet remains safely berthed in Roscoff on the north coast of Brittany, where Sébastien Rogues and Fabien Delahaye on race f

Leading the Transat Jacques Vabre Class 40 fleet in to their weather stop at Bloscon, Roscoff Sébastien Rogues and Fabien Delahaye on GDF Suez crossed the line there holding first place at 1

After a first night racing in conditions which proved to be slightly better than expected, the MOD70s are closing on Ushant with the bulk of the Transat Jacques Vabre fleet is spread around the Cha

The 11th Transat Jacques Vabre started under grey, drizzling skies in light winds at 1200 UTC off Le Havre’s Saint Adresse beach.

The Transat Jacques Vabre is 20 years old this year, having started out as the Route du Café when it ran from Le Havre to Cartagena, Columbia and was sailed singlehanded for just the ORMA an

Within the ever fluctuating classes that comprise French offshore sailing, the MOD70 has taken over from the ORMA 60 as the school boy sailor’s pin-up boat of choice (okay, alongside the AC72

Solo round the world skipper in the 2000 and 2008 Vendee Globes, fully crewed monohull skipper in the 2005-6 Volvo Ocean Race, now for the last three years, Seb Josse has been turning himself into

The two horse race in the Route des Princes' MOD70 race went to the wire with honours ultimately falling in favour of Seb Josse's crew on Edmond de Rothschild.