France24 (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Sunday will see the start of this year's Transat race. 28 boats will cross the Atlantic, starting in Quebec and ending in St Malo, striving to beat the record of just under eight days set by Frenchman Loick Peyron 12 years ago.
openPR.com Newsfeed (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
So, the Artemis Transat, the race formerly known as the OSTAR is over for another edition. Loick Peyron and his IMOCA 60 Gitana Eighty took a well deserved victory in the “big” class, with the ... read more
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Loïck Peyron sailed into Boston Harbor and into the record books early Saturday morning, winning the Artemis Transat, a single-handed trans-Atlantic race from Plymouth, England.
ISAF News (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Loick PEYRON onboard Gitana Eighty won the Artemis Transat for a record third time, setting a new IMOCA 60 class course record of 12 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes and 35 seconds.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
A hat-trick of wins and a new race record was claimed by Frenchman Loick Peyron in the early hours of Saturday morning as he crossed the finish line of the Artemis Transat singlehanded race from Plymouth to Boston.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
The end-game of the Artemis Transat took a dramatic turn last night as race leader Vincent Riou sent a distress signal to say he needed to abandon ship after hitting an obstruction which fatally damaged his keel. Approaching the notorious fogs of the Grand Banks fishing grounds, Loick Peyron, who was pressing his lead by less than 15 miles, was asked by race control to divert and rescue his rival....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Loick Peyron, seeking his third win in the singlehanded transatlantic race closed the gap in Gitana 80 on leader Vincent Riou's PRB as the pair approached both the ice gate and the 1,000-mile post to the finish yesterday.
