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Latest News: 2026 Golden Globe Race – Two years to go!
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"I think this Golden Globe Race is a wonderful idea. Why dream of it and never do it. This is a challenge that has been created to achieve that dream." Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Race Patron
The 58th Anniversary edition of the first Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in 1968/69
The 2026 Golden Globe Race
21 sailors… 30,000 miles… non-stop… alone… no outside assistance, like the original sunday times event, the 2026 golden globe race is very simple: depart from les sables-d’olonne, france on september 6th, 2026 and sail solo, non-stop around the world, via the five great capes and return to les sables-d’olonne..
Entrants are limited to sailing similar yachts and equipment to what was available to Sir Robin in that first race. That means sailing without modern technology or the benefit of satellite-based navigation aids.
Competitors must sail in production boats between 32ft and 36ft overall (9.75 – 10.97m) designed prior to 1988 that have a full-length keel with rudder attached to their trailing edge. These yachts are heavily built, strong and sturdy, similar in concept to Sir Robin’s 32ft vessel Suhaili.
In contrast to the current professional world of elite ocean racing, this edition travels back to a time known as the ‘Golden Age’ of solo sailing.
Suhaili was a slow, sturdy 32ft double-ended ketch based on a William Atkins ERIC design. She was heavily built of teak and carried no computers, GPS, satellite phone or water-maker, and Robin completed the challenge with no outside assistance or aid of modern-day shore-based weather routing advice. He had only a wind-up chronometer and a barograph to face the world alone and caught rainwater to survive.
But he was at one with the ocean, able to contemplate and absorb all that this epic voyage had to offer.
Bringing back the Golden Globe Race and thus the ‘Golden Age’ of solo sailing is to celebrate the original event, the winner, his boat and that significant world-first achievement.
Once again competitors in this 2026 race will be sailing simple boats using basic equipment to guarantee a satisfying and personal experience. The challenge is pure and very raw, placing adventure ahead of winning at all costs.
It is for ‘those who dare’, just as it was for Sir Robin.
They will be navigating with sextant on paper charts, without electronic instruments or autopilots. They will hand-write their logs and determine the weather for themselves. Only occasionally will they talk to loved ones and the outside world when long-range high-frequency radios allow. It is now possible to race a monohull solo around the world in under 80 days, but sailors entered in this race will spend around 250 days at sea in little boats, challenging themselves and each other.
The 2026 Golden Globe Race will be another fitting tribute to the first edition.
Don McIntyre, Race Founder and Chairman – about the 2026 Golden Globe Race:
I was first exposed to the inaugural 1982 BOC Challenge Around Alone Race during the Sydney stopover, working on Aries wind vanes used by competitors. I spent time with them all. We laughed together and I heard their stories. I met my boyhood champion, Robin Knox-Johnston and was hooked. I decided to compete in the 1986 event, but with a part built boat, I ran out of time, so had to be content in the role of Sydney BOC Race Chairman that year. Competing in the 1990-91 BOC Challenge was one of the highlights in my life. On reflection, I always considered myself lucky as, in my opinion, it was the last of the ‘adventure events’. Each future race became increasingly performance orientated, sailed by elite sportsmen and women in ever more extreme yachts, focused on winning at all costs. Nothing wrong with that, in fact it was and still is incredibly exciting, but it was simply a lot more of an adventure in 1990. My dream to sail solo around the world was borne of inspiration gained while following the solo voyages of Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston and Bernard Moitessier, and reading about Chay Blyth, Blondie Hasler and others from the ‘Golden Age’ of solo sailing. That was an exciting period! In 2008, I saw Sir Robin Knox-Johnston speaking on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his record setting 1968 non-stop circumnavigation. Referring to the current space-age building materials, high tech satellite systems and computers supporting today’s solo sailors, he simply said (by comparison to his own experience back then) ‘This takes the spice out of it!’. Well, just like the 2018 and 2022 editions, the 2026 Golden Globe Race very definitely puts the spice back into it and, by world standards, offers a very unique and demanding challenge to any sailor who’s up for it. That same year, Robin was asked: ‘What would you say to sailors thinking of circumnavigating?’ His response: ‘My advice to them would be quite simply this. If you’ve got the idea, and you want to do it, then do it. Don’t let ANYTHING get in the way. Far too many people sit in yacht clubs talking about it but then never do it. DO IT! You’ll never regret it.’ He’s right of course. Over the years I have personally supported many young solo sailors, men and women, to achieve their dreams. I hope this event will let many more – and maybe you! – achieve theirs! The 2018 and 2022 races were incredibly exciting and the 2026 GGR edition once again will venture into the unknown – watch this space!
Aims & Objectives
- To create a unique ‘RETRO’ non-stop solo around the world yacht race, in the image of the original Sunday Times Golden Globe that draws sailors back to the Golden Age of ‘one sailor, one boat’ facing the great oceans of the world.
- To organise a race where the adventure takes precedence over winning at all costs.
- To professionally manage an event where the sailor’s skill and traditional seamanship alone, rather than modern technology or support crews, gets them home and where the achievement truly belongs to the skipper.
- To give sailors of all ages an opportunity to race solo around the world safely, in a fleet of similar and affordable yachts in the spirit of Suhaili.
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The Race in Numbers
"When I first heard about the 2018 GGR I thought it was a great idea, why not do it, reach out to people who have the ambition to do something special with their lives." Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Patron of the Golden Globe Race
That was the time Sir Robin Knox-Johnston took to complete the first solo non-stop circumnavigation. The winning yacht in this race can be expected to complete the same distance in 260 days.
The number of individuals to have sailed solo around Cape Horn and other Great Capes in the Southern Ocean. This compares to almost 700 astronauts who have been shot into space!
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Everything you need to know about the 37th America’s Cup
Follow the build-up to the 37th America’s Cup as the teams prepare to fight it out for the oldest sporting trophy in the world.
Which teams are in the 37th America’s Cup?
In 2021 four teams raced in fully foiling AC75 monohulls which were conceived specifically for the event by then Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand and Challenger of Record, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli.
These same four teams have returned for the 2024 America’s Cup and are by joined by two additional teams, bringing the total number of entries up to 6.
Emirates Team New Zealand – America’s Cup Defender
As the current holder of the America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand will be racing again in the 37th America’s Cup. As the Defender, the Kiwis are guaranteed a spot in the America’s Cup regatta itself.
Any other challengers will need to race each other in the Louis Vuitton Cup to win the right to be the single challenger in the America’s Cup regatta itself.
Emirates Team New Zealand represent the Royal Auckland Yacht Club in America’s Cup racing.
tight racing between the British and the French. Photo: Ricardo Pinto / America’s Cup
INEOS Britannia – America’s Cup Challenger of Record
The Challenger of Record is the name given to the first yacht club to challenge the holder of the America’s Cup once it has been won.
When Emirates Team New Zealand successfully completed their defence of the America’s Cup in 2021, the Royal Yacht Squadron immediately issued a challenge on behalf of Ben Ainslie’s INEOS Team UK (now called INEOS Britannia), so they are Challenger of Record for the 37th America’s Cup .
INEOS Britannia and Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team has strengthened an exhausting relationship, with the British challenger standing to benefit from the technical and engineering experience of the multiple World Champion F1 team.
Photo: Job Vermeulen/America’s Cup
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli has a very long America’s Cup history having first competed in 2000 and has taken part in every Cup since (with the exception of the unique 2010 Deed of Gift match).
For the 36th America’s Cup Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli were the challenger of record. They also won the challenger selection series so it was this Italian team who took on Emirates Team New Zealand for the America’s Cup itself.
The team has returned for the 37th America’s Cup though this time they are not the official challenger of record.
Photo: Ian Roman / America’s Cup
American Magic
In 2021 the New York Yacht Clubs’ American Magic was also competing, though their event was ultimately ruined by a capsize in the early part of the regatta . They did get the boat rebuilt but it never got back up to speed and they made an early exit.
The 2021 campaign marked the return of the New York Yacht Club to the America’s Cup. The NYYC held the America’s Cup from its inception in 1851 right the way through to 1983, when they were defeated by the Royal Perth Yacht Club’s Australia II .
American Magic are, once again, representing the New York Yacht Club in the 2024 America’s Cup
The Alinghi Red Bull Racing AC75 was first to launch and has one of the most radical hull shapes. Photo: Olaf Pignataro/Alinghi Red Bull Racing
Alinghi Red Bull Racing
Eliminated in the louis vuitton cup semi-final.
Another team making a return to the America’s Cup scene after a long break will be Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team. The Swiss team won the America’s Cup in 2003 and then completed a successful defence in 2007.
However, a serious falling out over the potential rules for the next America’s Cup saw Alinghi taken to court by Larry Ellison and his BMW Oracle team, the 2010 America’s Cup was held between Alinghi and BMW Oracle Racing in a Deed of Gift match that saw the teams fight it out in huge multihulls.
BMW Oracle won the contest and Alinghi stepped away from America’s Cup racing.
Alinghi’s return was a welcome one and their Cup history alongside their partnership with Red Bull Racing should have seen them a solid challenge from the off. Unfortunately the complexity of the AC75s is clear and this team had too much to do to catch up to those involved in the 2021 Cup.
Alinghi was eliminated from the competition by INEOS Britannia in the Louis Vuitton Cup Semi-Final.
Orient Express Racing Team
Eliminated louis vuitton cup round robin series.
The French entry to the 2024 America’s Cup was long rumoured but it was not until quite late in the day that they officially announced their intention to challenge.
It was in early 2023 that the official announcement came of a French AC entry, backed by Accor Group and its brands Orient Express and ALL-ACCOR Live Limitless.
As a fairly late challenge they will had a lot to do to be competitive, but they struck a great – and controversial – deal with Team New Zealand to buy their boat design, so were able to skip a few steps on the learning curve.
Ultimately the French team did better than many expected, but their comparative lack of AC75 experience saw them knocked out in the first found of the Louis Vuitton Cup.
What boats are in the 37th America’s Cup
The class of boat to be used in the 2024 America’s Cup is once again the AC75 . These boats were first brought in ahead of the 36th America’s Cup so this will be their second outing.
The foiling monohulls are slightly different in 2024, with rules being tweaked partly aimed at improving light wind performance and reducing crew numbers from 11 to 8.
Teams are only be allowed to build one AC75 and nationality rules are strict this time around requiring 100% of the race crew for each competitor to either be a passport holder of the country of the team’s yacht club or to have been physically present in that country for 18 months of the previous three years prior to 17th March 2021.
Emirates Team New Zealand saw success in 2017 in Bermuda with their Cyclors . Having been banned in 2021, these have made a return for the 37th America’s Cup.
Barcelona, the venue for the 37th America’s Cup
Where is the 37th America’s Cup held?
Barcelona, Spain was selected in 2022 as the venue for the 37th America’s Cup , marking the first time a New Zealand team has chosen to defend a Cup win overseas.
The home city of Emirates Team New Zealand and the venue for the 36th America’s Cup, Auckland, had an exclusive period in which to tender for the regatta immediately after the Kiwis’ successful defence in 2021, but the sums on offer were not enough, and Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton cast the net wider internationally after rejecting a NZ$99 million (£50 million) offer from the New Zealand government.
A number venues were mooted including: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Cork, Ireland; Malaga, Spain, but Barcelona eventually won out.
When is the 37th America’s Cup?
The America’s Cup will be held in 2024 in Barcelona. Racing in the 37th America’s Cup Match itself, which is a best of 13 (first to seven) format will start on Saturday 12th October 2024 and could run all the way to the 27th October should all the races be needed to pick a winner.
The America’s Cup will be proceeded by the challenger selection series, which will see which of the five challengers gets the honour to race New Zealand for the Cup itself.
Racing for the Challenger Selection Series – officially the Louis Vuitton Cup, will take place between the 29 August 2024 and 7 October 2024.
Match Racing
Though the America’s Cup was first raced for in 1851 ( and won by the schooner America from which the trophy gets its name), this race was between a fleet of boats. A challenge by the British in the 1870s was also conducted as a fleet race.
By the 1880s, following a protest from the British, the America’s Cup was decided in a head-to-head match race where two boats sail against each other.
Match racing is a particular skill and encourages aggressive manoeuvres using the rules to put your opponent at a disadvantage. This cut-and-thrust racing, where the only objective is to beat your opponent, has long been at the heart of America’s Cup racing and produces a thrilling spectacle.
You can catch all the latest America’s Cup news, analysis and videos right here on Yachtingworld.com
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Andoo Comanche wins Sydney to Hobart yacht race 2022 line honours after tussle with LawConnect
Topic: Sport
Andoo Comanche has triumphed in a two-boat chase up the River Derwent to take out its fourth line honours in a late-night finish to the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
Key points:
- Andoo Comanche's finish was less than three hours off the race record set in 2017
- LawConnect crossed the finish line in second place, with both boats barrelling up the River Derwent at the same time
- The overall winner is yet to be declared, with times adjusted for boat size and other factors
The 24-strong crew on the John Winning Jr-skippered supermaxi crossed the finish line at 12:57am AEDT on Wednesday with a time of 1 day, 11 hours, 56 minutes and 48 seconds.
Favourable weather led to a speedy race this year but it was still not enough to pip Comanche's 2017 line honours win with skipper Jim Cooney, which set the race record of 1 day, 9 hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds.
This year's tussle for line honours and the JH Illingworth trophy became a clash between supermaxis Andoo Comanche and LawConnect on the River Derwent.
LawConnect finished a little over 20 minutes after Comanche, with a time of 1 day, 12 hours, 23 minutes and 19 seconds.
Black Jack followed closely behind the pair and all three chased each other down the east coast of Tasmania, hooked a sharp right turn around Tasman Island and closed in on Hobart in quick succession.
Andoo Comanche finished more than 20 minutes ahead of the next competitor. ( ABC News: Maren Preuss )
A crowd greeted Andoo Comanche's crew in Hobart. ( ABC News: Maren Preuss )
Comanche skipper John Winning Jr said the line honours win felt "pretty unbelievable at the moment" and was "still sinking in".
"I was on [line honours winner] Perpetual Loyal as one of the skippers in 2016 so I sort of know what to expect in terms of all of this," he said.
"But to do it in a campaign that I was part of putting together is really quite exceptional."
Skipper John Winning Jr tastes victory has he hoists the JH Illingworth trophy. ( ABC News: Maren Preuss )
He said this year he had "lost a dear friend", Andoo Team X founder Matthew Munting, and would dedicate the win to him.
He also thanked the "incredible legends" on his crew as well as his parents, who he said had put a love of the water into him at a young age.
The 24-member crew of Andoo Comanche celebrate their line honours win in Hobart. ( ABC News: Maren Preuss )
LawConnect crew member Gavin Smith said on Wednesday morning the team was exhausted but happy with the result.
"We were always hoping we would be able to catch them in the end, it was just a case that we didn't get there this year, but hopefully next year."
Black Jack crossed the finish in third with a time of 1 day, 12 hours, 40 minutes and 34 seconds.
Hamilton Island Wild Oats lost ground earlier in the race to become a distant fourth.
Wild Oats got into drama on the first night, with a seam splitting across one of its downwind sails.
The crew were forced to pull down the sail to repair it, which took them an hour and a half.
Monday saw a chaotic start to the 77th edition of the bluewater classic, with near-misses, protests and penalties for the big four.
Despite its eventual win, Comanche had a poor start when it did not get enough clear wind to move ahead of its rivals and became jammed by other craft.
It then misjudged a turn and hit the mark, losing even more ground. Shortly afterwards, the crew raised a protest flag.
Comanche romped home with another line honours win but wasn't able to beat the record it set in 2017. ( Supplied: Rolex/Andrea Francolini )
Wild Oats skipper Mark Richards let loose a number of audible obscenities on the TV coverage as he and his crew tried to navigate their way to the Sydney Heads and out into the ocean for the trip south.
At one point, Black Jack cut back across two of its rivals, running a fine line between LawConnect and Wild Oats.
On Wednesday morning, Comanche's protest flag was noticeably absent as it came up the River Derwent to the finish line.
Skipper John Winning Jr was asked why the team removed it.
"Would you worry about it if you came first?" he asked.
Yachtie injured, more boats retire as wind lashes Tasmania
Moneypenny crew member David Blanchfield received cuts to his leg when he was washed from the bow to the mast.
Stefan Racing suffered a torn mainsail as it raced Willow up the River Derwent. ( Supplied: Leash Harvey )
He was met by an ambulance after the yacht crossed the line in ninth place.
Stefan Racing skipper Grant Wharington said conditions were "heinous" off Tasman Island on Tuesday night, with winds of up to 45 knots from the north.
The sixth-placed yacht was racing Willow and Alive up the Derwent on Wednesday morning when it suffered mainsail damage.
"We got stuck with a jib that was too big," he said.
"It's maximum 18, 20-knot sail and we got like 30, 33 knots or something and it's just broke in half.
"It was quite an old sail. Anyway, you get that."
Although a number of other yachts have retired from the race, including White Noise, Mondo, Navy One, Sail Exchange and Huntress, it is a stark contrast to last year, when almost a quarter of entries dropped out before finishing.
Earlier in the race, Avalanche and Yeah Baby both retired with rudder damage while Koa suffered a damaged bowsprit.
It will be rough sailing for those still in the race, with the east of Tasmania now subject to gale and strong wind warnings.
'Polar opposite' weather conditions compared to 2021
LawConnect was the second yacht to reach the River Derwent. ( Supplied: Rolex/Andrea Francolini )
While Wednesday brought tough conditions for sailors, LawConnect crew member Tony Mutter said for his yacht, the contrast in weather between this year and last year's event had been startling.
Mutter told the ABC conditions were "pretty nice" for the crew and the "polar opposite" to last year.
"I was wearing thermals [last year]; we were in thunder and lightning," he said earlier.
"Now, I am in a T-shirt, shorts and life jacket."
LawConnect docked in Hobart after a "pretty nice" ride. ( ABC News: Liz Gwynn )
While line honours go to the first yacht to cross the finish line, the overall race winner is yet to be declared.
The major prize for sailors is the Tattersalls Cup — which goes to the overall winner on handicap after times are adjusted for boat size and other factors.
Last year, line honours went to Black Jack, but the overall winner — Ichi Ban — was not crowned until two days later.
As many in the fleet made their way down Tasmania's east coast, much of the state was under a severe weather warning for damaging winds. ( ABC News: Alexandra Humphries )
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Golden Globe Race 2022: The Long Way
- Katy Stickland
- October 14, 2021
Katy Stickland meets the skippers turning their backs on modern technology to take part in the slowest yacht race around the world - the Golden Globe Race 2022
Australian Mark Sinclair plans to sail via Cape Horn to the start line of the 2022 race, and will be leaving Australia in December 2021. Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR
Just one man – Robin Knox-Johnston – finished the 1968-69 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race .
His triumph led to the beginnings of the round the world yacht races we see today, and now fast foiling boats, specced to the max, circumnavigate in a mere 41 days.
Many raised doubts (as they did with the original event) when Australian sailor Don McIntyre announced he would be running a 2018 Golden Globe Race – 50 years after the original – with skippers having to sail nonstop around the world using only the technology available to Knox-Johnston.
This meant no GPS , satellite phones, weather routing, chartplotters or autopilots .
Instead, the skippers would navigate their pre-1988 production long-keeled 32-36ft boats using a sextant and rely on HAM radio for weather information as well as a barometer.
In the end, 18 skippers started the 2018 Golden Globe Race; five made it to the finish. Five boats were dismasted, with three sailors needing rescue from the Southern Ocean .
Others endured multiple knockdowns , were pitchpoled in heavy weather or suffered equipment failure. All of them survived.
Finn Tapio Lehtinen is back for the Golden Globe Race 2022 and will be looking to better his fifth place position in 2018-2019. He will be racing in the same boat – his Gaia 35, Asteria . Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR
Next year, the Golden Globe Race will return, but with some changes.
The ‘retro’ element of the event will remain but the fleet will start two months later – 4 September 2022 – in an effort to avoid entering the Southern Ocean too early.
McIntyre admits the speed of the 2018 fleet took him by surprise after he ‘didn’t believe’ the modelling which showed a circumnavigation of 210-220 days.
Race winner Jean-Luc Van Den Heede finished in 211 days, 101 days faster than Knox-Johnston.
Rules on rigging sizes have been dropped and there will be no spar size restrictions, except for length.
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede on his Rustler 36 Matmut meets the press at the end of his 211-day circumnavigation to win the 2018-19 Golden Globe Race. Credit: Tim Bishop/PPL/GGR
HAM radio transmissions will also be banned, replaced with a 100% waterproof HF SSB radio and weather fax for receiving weather charts. In 2018, there was controversy when it was revealed some of the skippers didn’t have HAM radio licences.
This change has caused concerns, with some of the 2018 entrants highlighting difficulties in picking up Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) frequencies in the Southern Ocean due to the shrinking of the broadcasting network as more mariners rely on satellite communication.
The route is also different in the Golden Globe Race 2022, ‘to make it less demanding on the boats,’ according to McIntyre.
The 2022 skippers will have to keep the South Atlantic island Trindade to port and make a photo gate stop at Cape Town. This follows the Clipper route, which was taken by Bernard Moitessier in the 1968 race.
Golden Globe Race 2022: Colourful characters
Some entrants in 2018 had never sailed using their windvane steering; McIntyre has now introduced an extra 2,000 mile nonstop and tracked qualifying passage.
Skippers must use their race boat and sail using windvane steering and celestial navigation .
Like 2018, the Golden Globe Race 2022 has attracted an interesting mix of colourful characters, with some of the 2018 skippers returning including Ertan Beskardes , Mark Sinclair and fifth placed Tapio Lehtinen .
Golden Globe Race 2022 skippers must navigate by sextant. Routing, GPS and chartplotters are all banned. Credit: Mark Sinclair/GGR/PPL
For Australian Sinclair , racing around the world in his bright orange Lello 34 masthead cutter, Coconut is as much about the race’s nautical history as it is about the competition.
He has truly embraced the retro aspect of the event, using car tyres instead of a drogue, and fitting a Second World War US Navy Chelsea engine-room clock to the main bulkhead.
Last time, Sinclair, 62, retired at his home port of Adelaide after 157 days of sailing, having ‘gone rogue’, effectively abandoning the race in favour of cruising the coast of South Africa. Barnacles on the hull and a diminishing water supply meant it was unwise to push on into the Southern Ocean.
He has now fitted a 200 litre bladder water tank.
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Ian Herbert-Jones: Golden Globe Race 2022 skipper
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‘I got a lot of criticism for having my holiday around the bottom of South Africa in the last race, but I’ve still got my boat. There is a fine balance between risk and reward. Five boats were dismasted in 2018 of which four were abandoned and even Jean-Luc [Van Den Heede] had a badly damaged rig from a violent knock down. There is something to be said for sailing at a moderate pace and preserving the integrity of the boat and the skipper,’ noted Sinclair, who prefers heaving-to in heavy weather.
He has also tweaked Coconut ’s rig for the Golden Globe Race 2022, fashioning two 2.6m jockey poles to boom out twin staysails, as well as carrying the two standard spinnaker poles for a better downwind performance.
He plans to push further south sooner than he did in 2018.
Old and new
The 2022 race has attracted skippers with varying degrees of experience: from American Elliott Smith , who at 26 is the youngest to enter and has only sailed for the last three years, to heavyweights like Britain’s David Scott Cowper , who has finished six solo circumnavigations around the world and six Northwest Passage transits; Damien Guillou from France who has raced seven solo La Solitaire du Figaro, and has hefty sponsorship from PRB; Kiwi Graham Dalton, Velux 5 Oceans skipper and older brother of Whitbread winner and CEO of New Zealand’s America’s Cup team, Grant Dalton, and BOC Challenge veteran Robin Davie .
For Cornishman Davie , the 2022 race is unfinished business, having run out of time preparing his Rustler 36, C’est La Vie for 2018.
Like all those who finished the 2018 Golden Globe Race, Robin Davie has already sailed solo around the world. Credit: Robin Davie/PPL/GGR
The former British Merchant Navy radio officer is all too aware of the dangers of the Southern Ocean, having been dismasted in the 1994 BOC Challenge Around Alone Race thousands of miles from Cape Horn; he sailed under jury rig round the cape to the Falkland Islands.
He has spent a lot of time strengthening his Rustler 36 in case of a knockdown, beefing up the main bulkheads, glassing the deck and glassing the chainplates to the hull.
‘Nobody wants to be rolled but you’re better off accepting that it is certainly possible during the race, especially when you are in areas of big storms . It can happen to any of us,’ states Davie, who has solo circumnavigated three times but never nonstop.
Work was put on hold from March 2020 until September 2021, when Davie, 69, was trapped in the US due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He still has to fit the mast, which is the original from Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s Rustler 36, who decided to sail in 2018 with a shorter mast.
2022 will be a celebration of 1968 Golden Globe skipper, Frenchman Bernard Moitessier. Credit: Getty
Davie will be adding strengthening pads where the lower shrouds connect to the mast, following Van Den Heede’s pitchpole in 11m (36ft) Southern Ocean seas, which caused the starboard lower shroud’s connecting bolt attachment to slip 5cm down in the mast section, slackening the rigging and almost costing the Frenchman the race.
Davie is not the only one looking at lessons learned from 2018, and the preparations by the five finishers.
Like Van Den Heede, who spent the winter honing his storm tactics in Biscay before the start of the 2018 race, South African skipper Kirsten Neuschafer is planning to sail throughout the Northern Hemisphere winter.
The 39-year-old, who has spent five years sailing for Skip Novak aboard his Pelagic Australis in South Georgia, the Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands and Patagonia, has been preparing her Cape George Cutter CG36, Minnehaha in Prince Edward Island.
Although she has plenty of experience sailing the 74ft Pelagic Australis in big seas and heavy weather, Neuschäfer knows racing a 36ft cruising boat successfully through the Southern Ocean will depend on the vessel’s strength as well as storm tactics.
Kirsten Neuschäfer’s longest solo passage to date is a 67-day trip from Portugal to South Africa, with only windvane self-steering. Credit: Kirsten Neuschäfer
Minnehaha ’s bulwarks have been rebuilt and she has a new deck, chainplates, hull fittings and a new aluminium mast.
‘We had naval architects calculate the righting moment for the boat to determine what spar the boat could take. It is bigger than the original wooden mast as, being aluminium it isn’t as heavy, but it is still in the range of what the boat was designed to take.’
Reinforcement plates will also be fitted around the spreaders and cap shrouds.
Neuschäfer learned to sail off South Africa’s Eastern Cape, giving her valuable experience of the Agulhas Current and heavy weather sailing.
She will be practising heaving-to techniques, including with a mainsail or storm jib hanked onto the backstay, to find the best technique for the boat.
Cape Town questions
Neuschäfer is unashamedly ambitious and is ‘looking to win [the 2022 Golden Globe Race] through and through’.
Like Van Den Heede, she will be seeking professional routing advice ahead of the start, although admits ‘luck is a really big factor’, especially for the Cape Town photo gate.
‘I know Cape Town like the back of my hand and at that time of year, you can have three to four weeks of solid 30-40 knot southeasters, which will be totally against you. There are also currents off the continental shelf around Cape Town. If it wasn’t for the photo drop, I would have avoided that coastline like the plague unless I intended to make landfall.’
Both Graham Dalton and David Scott Cowper have also raised questions about the wisdom of the Cape Town gate; race chairman Don McIntyre admits it’s ‘incredibly demanding’ but insists it is safe, and will add to the challenge.
‘The GGR is a tough race,’ he said.
The 2018-19 race saw 18 skippers start, but just five finished. Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR
Cowper would prefer a time penalty for those who fail to make the gate.
‘If you have a Cape Doctor blowing, you might not be able to enter Cape Town for two or three days. On the other hand, you might have no wind at all, and take days to get in and out of Cape Town. It doesn’t add an extra challenge as it’s just about luck,’ he said.
Cowper is the most experienced skipper in the race.
Finishing the event would bring his tally of circumnavigations around the world to seven.
He is already planning another Northwest Passage transit via the Prince of Wales Strait, after the race.
British sailor David Scott Cowper has circumnavigated the world six times. Credit: Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580/
He will be 80 when he crosses the start line, and will be racing with cataracts.
‘Unfortunately, one does slow up and your strength levels are not quite the same as before, but on the other hand, one knows what to anticipate so I’m hoping that stands me in good stead,’ said Cowper, who is provisioning his Tradewind 35 cutter, currently named Tim Pippin , for a 250-day circumnavigation.
Attention to detail
Is he looking to beat Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s 211 days and claim the record as the oldest person to complete a solo round the world yacht race?
‘It would be nice to do that, but I don’t want to be that optimistic and become conceited. I will take each day as it comes and hope to sail the boat reasonably quickly,’ he said from his home port of Newcastle, where he is working on refitting and strengthening the boat with his typical forensic attention to detail.
Cowper believes at ‘scenic speeds of 3-5 knots’, it will be impossible for the 2022 fleet to outrun heavy weather in the Southern Ocean and is unconcerned about the ability to get weather data.
The Golden Globe Race 2022 route. Credit: Maxine Heath
‘You have to take the weather as it comes. You just have to try and read the signs and watch your barometer,’ he advised.
Whilst few of the 2022 skippers will have the seamanship of Cowper, all of them have the same passion that this ‘longest, loneliest and slowest’ race seems to inspire.
It is turning this passion into successful practical preparation to make the Les Sables d’Olonne start line on 4 September 2022 which is one of the biggest tests.
Of the 31 sailors who made the provisional list of 2022 entrants, just 27 – including six Brits and six Australians – remain a year before the start.
Only time will tell if they will be truly ready to follow in Moitessier’s wake and be thrown at the mercy of the ocean.
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