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    Vendée Globe star Alex Thomson named 2017 Yachtsman of the Year

    • January 11, 2018

    British IMOCA 60 sailor Alex Thomson was named the YJA’s Yachtsman of the Year this week. He received the famous trophy at the London Boat Show today, Thursday 11 January. Thomson,…

    How Alex Thomson nearly won the Vendée Globe 2016-17

    • March 21, 2017

    In the piercing cold morning of 18 January, Armel Le Cléac’h was grasping a 34-mile lead in the Vendée Globe, racing upwind towards the Scilly Isles. A wind shift to…

    Alex Thomson finishes the Vendée Globe 2016/7

    Alex Thomson hailed by French for ‘magnificent 2nd’ in Vendée Globe but admits “It was brutal”

    • January 20, 2017

    Alex Thomson finished the Vendée Globe solo round the world race in the biting cold of dawn today to take 2nd place in a time of 74d 19h 35m. Like the…

    Alex Thomson aboard Hugo Boss, Vendee Globe 2016/7

    Alex Thomson fighting exhaustion as electronics problems threaten Vendée Globe hopes

    • January 18, 2017

    British sailor Alex Thomson has a fight on his hands to try to make up the 34-mile deficit on the leader of the Vendée Globe race – and the main…

    Alex Thomson racing, Vendee Globe 2016/7, in Hugo Boss

    Alex Thomson and Armel Le Cléach battle for Vendée Globe record

    • January 17, 2017

    When François Gabart won the Vendée Globe solo round the world race in 2013 at his first attempt, he set a superb new record of 78d 2h and many said it…

    Alex Thomson sets new 24-hour speed record as he goes all-out in bid to overtake Vendée Globe leader

    • January 16, 2017

    Vendée Globe racer Alex Thomson has set a new 24-hour solo monohull sailing record, sailing an incredible 536.81 nautical miles in 24 hours. Watch Alex talking about the record here:…

    Vendée Globe showdown: can Alex Thomson beat his great French rival Armel Le Cléac’h?

    • January 15, 2017

    After over 23,000 miles of racing, the two leaders of the Vendée Globe solo round the world race are today just over 100 miles apart. Armel Le Cléac’h has led…

    The new Hugo Boss IMOCA Open 60 race yacht skippered by Alex Thomson. Credit: Lloyd Images/ AT Racing

    What’s behind the design of Alex Thomson’s Vendée Globe racer Hugo Boss?

    • January 7, 2017

    The 2016/7 Vendée Globe race will go down as one dominated by two very different sailors, Frenchman Armel Le Cléac’h and Briton Alex Thomson in two critically different yachts. There is no…

    Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss

    Collision and foil damage puts Alex Thomson’s Vendée Globe lead in jeopardy

    • November 20, 2016

    A collision with an underwater object has damaged the starboard foil of Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss, putting his attempt to win the Vendee Globe solo round the world in jeopardy.…

    Video: Alex Thomson kitesurfs over the top of his IMOCA 60 race boat

    • March 15, 2016

    Scroll down for video First came the keel walk in 2012, then came the mast walk in 2014, and now, after much preview hype, Alex Thomson’s Skywalk video was released…

    Wreck found after drifting for 9 years and 10,000 miles in the Southern Ocean is Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss

    • February 22, 2016

    These photos of the shipwrecked hull of Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss were taken in February in Patagonia during a kayak expedition by Chilean adventurer Cristian Donoso. Donoso discovered the yacht nine…

    Alex Thomson's 2006 Hugo Boss

    Great Seamanship: dramatic account by Mike Golding of rescuing Alex Thomson in the Southern Ocean

    • February 22, 2016

    Mike Golding OBE, ex-firefighter and twice winner of the IMOCA (Open 60) World Championship against the assembled might of France is so well known in ocean racing circles that to…

    Alex Thomson's Hugo Boss dismasted and half flooded

    Alex Thomson airlifted to safety as his new Hugo Boss is capsized by a rogue wave

    • November 1, 2015

    Alex Thomson and his co-skipper, Spanish sailor Guillermo Altadill, were airlifted off the 60ft yacht Hugo Boss yesterday afternoon some 82 miles off the north coast of Spain. They had…

    Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss

    Solo sailors such as Alex Thomson embody the motto ‘quitters never win; winners never quit’. They should be our sport’s role models

    • January 15, 2015

    We know them as shorthanded or single-handed round the world races, the Vendée Globe and the like, but we should really call them single-minded races. An unwavering dedication and almost…

    Hugo Boss dismasts

    Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss has dismasted in the south Atlantic while leading Barcelona World Race

    • January 15, 2015

    Briton Thomson, 40, and Spaniard Ribes, 43 will now cease racing in the Barcelona World Race 2014 -2015. The Hugo Boss skippers and the shore team are currently evaluating how…

    Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss

    Alex Thomson ready for his quest to win the Barcelona World Race in Hugo Boss

    • December 29, 2014

    On New Year’s Eve, as Barcelona celebrates, Britain’s Alex Thomson will set out on the Barcelona World Race in Hugo Boss his eighth non-stop round the world race. He will…

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