On Sunday, November 10 at exactly 1:02 p.m., the 40 skippers of the 2024 edition of the Vendée Globe will set off from Les Sables d'Olonne for a sailing trip around the world, solo and without assistance.
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45,000 km, or 24,300 miles, is the distance of the theoretical course that the 40 skippers of the Vendée Globe 2024 will have to complete.
They will have to go down the Atlantic, cross the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, then go up the Atlantic again.
45,000 km, or 24,300 miles, is the distance of the theoretical course that the 40 skippers of the Vendée Globe 2024 will have to complete.
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© Vendée Globe
The Vendée Globe sailors will leave Sables-d'Olonne in the autumn, before sailing in the Southern Seas in the middle of the austral summer, and returning in the heart of winter to Vendée.
A revolution carried out in record time and hitherto unmatched by Armel Le Cléac'h in 74 days, 3 hours, 35 seconds and 46 hundredths during the 2016-2017 Vendée Globe.
The Everest of the seas, these are three capes to cross.
The sailors will first pass by the Cape of Good Hope, located at the tip of South Africa. It marks the switch between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The sailors will then have to face the roaring 40s and more unstable weather conditions.
Cape Leeuwin, located in Australia, the most southwest of Oceania before the sailors tipped into the Pacific Ocean.
Finally, Cape Horn, located at the tip of South America, which, once crossed, puts sailors on the route back to the Atlantic Ocean.
Charlie Dalin, second in the 2020/2021 Vendée Globe to pass Cape Horn this January 3, 2021
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© Charlie Dalin / Vendée Globe
This point is located in the heart of the South Pacific Ocean, coordinates 48° 52′ 32″ S, 123° 23′ 33″ W and happens to be the most isolated ocean spot on the planet.
The most loved ones from point Nemo are located at 2,688 km: Ducie Island in the Pitcairn Archipelago, Motu Nui Island, neighboring Easter Island, and Maher Island in Antarctica are the closest territories.
No plane flies over it, no ship crosses it. In the event of damage at Point Nemo, a skipper would have to wait 15 days before help arrived.
It is in this area that space waste that is too large to disintegrate upon entering the atmosphere ends up.
Everyone will have their eyes on Yannick Bestaven, the winner of the 2020-2021 edition, and Charlie Dalin, who was the first to cross the line, but who had to settle for second place in the end.
At the end of an epic race, punctuated by the sinking of Kevin Escoffier, Yannick Bestaven had indeed crossed the finish line behind Charlie Dalin.
But the compensation game allowed him to be declared the winner with a gap of 2h31 between the two skippers. The smallest gap ever recorded between the first two in this legendary race.
Since then, Charlie Dalin has distinguished himself by winning the New York Vendée in 2024.
Another favorite, Yoann Richomme, who won the Retour à La Base in 2023 and The Transat CIC 2024 and Thomas Ruyant, winner of the Route du Rhum 2022.
Without winning, Jérémie Beyou, Boris Herrmann and Sam Davies nevertheless reached the podium in several of these major races.
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