Malizia-Seaexplorer competing in Vendée Globe under Monaco flag

GlobeNewswire

November 05, 2024



TURIN, Italy, Nov. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Everything's ready for the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe, the single-handed, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world sailing race that takes place every four years since 1989. Forty sailors will set out on November 10th from Les Sables-d’Olonne, in France, and among them there will be Boris Herrmann, member of Yacht Club de Monaco. The German sailor is participating in this epic 24,300 nautical mile (45,000km) race aboard the Monaco-flagged IMOCA Malizia-Seaexplorer. Winner of the IMOCA 2018/2020 Championship and 5th in the previous Vendée Globe (in 80 days 15 hours 59 minutes 45 seconds), Herrmann is one of the favourites to win this edition.

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