Vendée Globe 2008-9: Onboard Images

Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


Sam gets out her Roxy bikini earlier in the race. Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


Roxy in the Southern Ocean. Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


Ice sighted. Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


An albatross for company. Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


Fiery ocean sunset. Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


Sam's Christmas gifts in the Southern Ocean. Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


Sam puts her feet up at Christmas. Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


Shrimps caught by Roxy. Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


The handle of Sam's tea cup falls off: "I would like my skipper to take care of me with the same passion that she applies to care for her boat...". Image copyright Sam Davies/Roxy/Vendée Globe.


Arnaud Boissières looks down at the kite on board Akena Vérandas. Image copyright Arnaud Boissières/Akena Vérandas/Vendée Globe.


Mike Golding looks down at Ecover from up the mast. Image copyright Mike Golding/Ecover/Vendée Globe.


A deluge on Foncia as she hits a new speed record on autopilot of 30.44 knots. Image copyright Michel Desjoyeaux/Foncia/Vendée Globe.


Foncia in stormy seas. Image copyright Michel Desjoyeaux/Foncia/Vendée Globe.


Southern Ocean stormy seascape. Image copyright Michel Desjoyeaux/Foncia/Vendée Globe.


Seb Josse in his mirror. Image copyright Seb Josse/BT/Vendée Globe.


Splashy time on board for Seb Josse. Image copyright Seb Josse/BT/Vendée Globe.


A sunset from on board BT. Image copyright Seb Josse/BT/Vendée Globe.


Santa in the Southern Ocean. Image copyright Roland Jourdain/Veolia Environnement/Vendée Globe.


A bird hitches a ride on Brit Air. Image copyright Armel Le Cleac'h/Brit Air/Vendée Globe.


A little damp on board Artemis. Image copyright Jonny Malbon/Artemis/Vendée Globe.


Loïck Peyron up the mast. Image copyright Loïck Peyron/Gitana Eighty/Vendée Globe.


Nauticsport Kapsch. Image copyright Norbert Sedlacek/Nauticsport Kapsch/Vendée Globe.


A yellow Christmas for Norbert Sedlacek. Image copyright Norbert Sedlacek/Nauticsport Kapsch/Vendée Globe.


Rough seas and high winds on Christmas Eve, as seen from Bahrain Team Pindar. Image copyright Brian Thompson/Bahrain Team Pindar/Vendée Globe.


Dominique Wavre's Christmas on Temenos 2. Image copyright Dominique Wavre/Temenos 2/Vendée Globe.

Vendée Globe 2008-9