The match in the race for 14 IMOCAs competing in the 2016 Vendée Globe

© Alexis Courcoux

Among the 29 IMOCA boats taking part in the Vendée Globe, 14 were built for the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe. Designed between 2005 and 2007, these 14 boats have also sailed around the world many times and have a track record worthy of the greatest. Even if most of them have been optimized year after year, the real match will be played between these 14 60-foot monohulls of the same generation.

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