A report on Samantha Davies, one of the two women skippers to take part in the 2008 Vendée Globe. The commentary on factual images and illustration images alternates with Samantha’s interviews: "When I was little, I always sailed at sea with my parents...I love being alone on the water..." and her parents: "I have a lot of admiration for her and I have a lot of confidence..." said her mother Jennifer DAVIES. "Sam has already sailed in the South Seas...I’m not afraid, she sails much better than us," says Paul DAVIES, her father.
The British Samantha DAVIES finished third in the 2009 Vendée Globe, arriving last night in Les Sables d'Olonne. Portrait of this skipper, famous for her joie de vivre and her good mood, who participated for the first time in this competition. She returns to her most beautiful memory. Elaine BUNTING explains the reasons for her popularity. Commentary on factual images and archive images, interspersed with interviews with Samantha DAVIES and Elaine BUNTING from Yatchting World Magazine.
Portrait of the only two women skippers to take part in the Vendée Globe: Anne LIARDET and Karen LEIBOVICI. Commentary on images of the women navigators on their boat and interviews with the two competitors as well as Manon, the daughter of Anne LIARDET. Anne LIARDET: "the boys are no more advantaged than us on a race like this...because it’s in the head that it happens, it’s anticipating, it’s feeling your boat." Karen LEIBOVICI: "I know that I will encounter a lot of difficulties, that it will be difficult..." Manon, the daughter of Anne LIARDET.
Press conference by Catherine CHABAUD, 6th in the Vendée Globe rankings and the first woman to sail around the world solo without stopping. Very moved when she arrived in Les Sables d'Olonnes, she declared: "This tour has made my soul very bare, we really go to the end...we crack, I cracked more than once but I also cried of happiness... What is important on a boat is to be in harmony with the boat and with the elements and I have not always been in harmony with the boat and in the south after my capsizing...I struggled to find this harmony..."
Bravo to Isabelle AUTISSIER who arrived in Les Sables d'Olonne at 1 pm after 110 days at sea, including a 4-day forced stopover in South Africa, a stopover synonymous with disqualification.
Portrait of Ellen MAC ARTHUR, a 24-year-old skipper who is preparing to take part in the Vendée Globe Challenge 2000. The journalist’s commentary on sea training images alternates with the interview with the British navigator.
After a solo round the world race, a great performance in the Vendée Globe and an off-classification finish in Les Sables d'Olonne, Isabelle AUTISSIER has returned to the port of La Rochelle today aboard her PRB boat: Atmosphere in La Rochelle with a warm welcome with fanfare. It tells the beauty of the flight of the albatrosses on the sea. Interviewed at sea on her boat, she recalls the storm she faced during the Vendée Globe race.
[Source France 3 Regions]: Clarisse Crémer, an unknown navigator, is training for the transat Jacques Vabre with her preparation for the Vendée Globe in mind. For the Route du café, this young woman graduated from HECteamed up with a trainer of choice: Armel Le Cléac'h. Clarisse was unknown to the general public before the Banque Populaire team entrusted her with a Vendée Globe project, In 2017, she finished second in the series of the mini transat, winning the Trans Gascogne, a passage in Figaro, before taking the helm of a 60-foot and since July she learns. While he awaits his Ultimate, scheduled for early 2021, it is Armel Le Cléach who takes care of his training. He’s his partner on the coffee road. Their choice was a boat without foils. The Jacques Vabre transat will thus become an almost life-size test for the young woman, whose regatta will be the first in this category. For Armel Le Cléac'h, if a victory seems a bit illusory with a classic drift boat, there is no way to let the race go. 30 Imoca from Le Havre to Salvador de Bahia, anything can happen ...
[Source France 3 Regions]: Biotic sailor Alexia Barrier is entering a new year of competition with a view to qualifying for the next Vendée Globe and the solo round the world sailing race in 2020. She has just done the last adjustment tests off Cannes on her "4 my planete" boat. She’s not sure she can raise the budget for her errands.
Anne Liardet est enfin arrivée aux Sables 31 jours après le vainqueur du Vendée Globe. La fin de course a été très éprouvante mais elle est allée jusqu'au bout de son rêve. Ses trois enfants l'attendaient sur le quai. Anne Liardet s'exprime sur la difficulté de l'épreuve, son fils est content que l'épreuve lui ait permis d'arrêter de fumer.
Catherine CHABAUD, last competitor of the Vendée Globe Challenge, tells with great emotion what she felt when she arrived in Les Sables d'Olonnes. "There was a beautiful light. I was both happy to arrive but then unhappy to leave the sea, it’s funny what’s going on with her." Images of Catherine CHABAUD’s arrival on her sailboat and surrounded by small boats and people who came to welcome her. She finds her parents and kisses them happily.
This is the first time that women sailors have taken part in the Vendée Globe race: Catherine CHABAUT and Isabelle AUTISSIER confide their fears a few days before the start of the race and give their feeling about being the first women to participate in this race.
British sailor Ellen MAC ARTHUR finished second in the Vendée Globe race behind Michel DESJOYEAUX. The first woman to have made the round the world solo without stopover or assistance in less than a hundred days, she crossed the finish line in Les Sables d'Olonne last night, in emotion. The audience was there to welcome him... The reporter’s commentary on images of Ellen MAC ARTHUR and the audience on the pontoons this morning and her arrival in the channel on Fisher King last night, alternates with interviews with French and English admirers and a BBC journalist, as well as an excerpt from Ellen’s statement at a press conference: "I am very happy, I am very touched...it is too early to realize in my head what I have experienced"
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