Hugo Boss Vendee Globe 2024. Germany’s boris herrmann announced last week that he is well down the road with the commissioning of a new vplp imoca design on which he will compete in the crewed race. Hublot, the former hugo boss now skippered by alan roura, hits warp speed.

His imoca experience to date is quite limited, amounting to a couple of months sailing with alex thomson on the most recent hugo. Here’s our pick of the fleet from the pontoons of les sables d’olonne