This game drives them crazy.
They tacked for breakfast, hoisted a spinnaker to the toilets, passed Cape Horn in a virtual meeting and ended up buying a “premium pack” at 30 euros to save their boat a few knots.
From morning to evening and until the dead of night, they are almost a million to have taken on the game Virtual Regatta, an online regatta which follows the real positions of the boats engaged in different regattas, and in this respect. moment the Vendée Globe.
Sailing stars, boat enthusiasts or neophytes, all come together around this game with simplistic graphics but very high geographic and meteorological precision.
Founded in 2006, the company that publishes the game employs 10 people and has just launched a new recruitment campaign.
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