Vendee Globe 2020-21 Preview

Vendee Globe 2020-21 Preview

Author: Justin Chisholm November 7, 2020 Duration: 55:00
On the eve of the start of the 2021-22 edition of the Vendee Globe solo, nonstop, around the world yacht race 2016-17 Vendee Globe skipper Conrad Colman joins regular host Justin Chisholm for the first of a special series of weekly Vendee Globe updates.With just one more night left to sleep ashore in a comfortable bed for the 33 solo skippers assembled in the start port of Les Sables D'Olonne Conrad describes what it is likely to be going through their minds as they count down the hours to the start.Speaking from his own personal experience Conrad explains some of the daunting challenges the skippers are likely to face and relates just how brutal his own Vendee Globe experience was in the last edition – including dealing with an on board fire, a severely malfunctioning autohelm, multiple knockdowns, being washed overboard, and ultimately dismasting in the final 1000 miles of the race.

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Alex Thomson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:17
Justin Chisholm’s guest is British solo racing skipper Alex Thomson – a veteran of no less than five editions of the Vendée Globe solo around the world race. He made his first attempt in 2004 but damage to his boat put h…
Ed Gorman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:04
Justin Chisholm’s guest is Ed Gorman - a veteran British journalist who during a 25 year career with the British Times newspaper was deputy foreign editor, deputy news editor and a war correspondent – before switching ge…
Sam Holliday [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:51
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Andy Rice – Tokyo 2020 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:22
Justin Chisholm's guest is British yacht racing journalist Andy Rice, who had just returned from Enoshima, Japan where he had been reporting on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic regatta for World Sailing.Andy is a veteran Olympic s…
Paul Larsen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:20
It was back in 2012 that Paul piloted the revolutionary Vestas Sailrocket 2 to a new outright world record speed of 65.54 knots to become the fastest man on the water.That record still stands and in our interview Paul mu…
Leon Sefton [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:58
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Hannah Diamond [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:00
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Neal McDonald [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:08
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Charlie Dalin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:24
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Ray Davies [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:59
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