The word "vendee" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or commercial contexts to refer to a person or entity that purchases goods or property. Example: "The vendee agreed to the terms of the sale and signed the contract." Alternatives include "buyer" or "purchaser."
Artemis was co-skippered by Sam Davies a heroine of the vendee Globe, and Sidney Gavignet, and they, too, had planned to sail doublehanded until Gavignet suffered severe bruising to his right leg in a confrontation he lost with a spinning winch handle.
Charles R. Bendit, co-chief executive officer of Taconic, declined to comment about the specific terms of the deal except to confirm that Taconic is the "contract vendee" on the building.
Mr. Malloy remains the contract vendee.
"I need to give it some thought, because the Vendee is two races, the first to the start line, the second to the finish," he says with a look in his eyes that can alarm wives who do not want to be grass widows.
What better place to test that experience than in the Vendee Globe 2012?" Asked about the feeling on board, Peyron said : "Emotional and happy!
Andrew Pindar also sponsored Brian Thompson in the Vendee Globe round the world race as a promotion for Bahrain and it was one of his two Volvo 60s that was hi-jacked by the Iranians when on its way down the Gulf to a race in Dubai, where the RC44s stage a regatta.
It forms one of the top four events in the world of sailing - the other three being the Olympics, the America's Cup and the Vendee Globe singlehanded round the world race, which starts next month from les Sables d'Olonne.
Finishing the 28,022 miles of the Vendee Globe tells its own tale.
There was more disappointment in 2008 when, making final adjustments prior to the start of the Vendee Globe, he was hit by a fishing boat.
The New Yorker, August 23 , 1999P. 196 Briefly noted book review of "Godforsaken Sea" (Algonquin; $22.95) by Derek Lundy... Lundy, an amateur mariner, here provides an account of the 1996-97 Vendee Globe, a sailing race that crosses the Southern Ocean... View Article By Alan Burdick By Charles Bethea By Charles Bethea By Larissa MacFarquhar.
Last week he also proved that his remarkable comeback to the highest level of his extreme sport was complete by not only maintaining his lead in the Vendee Globe nonstop around-the-world race, but by also setting the mark for the fastest 24-hour sprint recorded by a solo sailor.
