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The Ocean Race 2022-23 by the numbers

With 3 Legs now completed, we take a look at the crews that have so far been involved in the current edition of The Ocean Race

Broken down to its fundamentals, the 2022-23 edition of The Ocean Race is a fully-crewed, 32,000 nautical mile (37,000-mile / 60,000-kilometre) six-month, seven-stage, nine-city, around-the-world yacht race, contested by five of the world’s best professional sailing teams racing aboard 60-foot state-of-the-art ocean racing yachts.

But, when we dig a little deeper into the numbers, there are plenty more fascinating facts and figures to be revealed... beginning with fact that the current edition – which started in Alicante, Spain in January, 2023 and finishes in Genova, Italy in July – is the 14th time the race has been staged since its inception 50 years ago in 1973.

An international line-up

The Ocean Race has always attracted the top sailors from across the globe keen to become part of the yacht racing elite who have raced around the world.

The five IMOCA teams competing in the 2022-23 edition come are racing under the national flags of four nations – France (Biotherm), Germany (Team Malizia); Switzerland (Team Holcim - PRB); United States (11th Hour Racing Team) – as well as Europe, represented by GUYOT environnement – Team Europe.

Beyond that, the teams’ sailing squads are made up of 29 sailors representing 10 nationalities: Australian (1*); British (7*); Dutch (1); French (12), German (4); USA (1); Italian (1); Portuguese (1); Spanish (1); Swiss (1).

*11th Hour Racing Team’s Jack Bouttell is a British and Australian passport holder.

The disproportionate number of French sailors should come as no surprise given the country’s fearsome reputation for nurturing top flight ocean racing talent. Four of the five squads include at least two French sailors, with the American 11th Hour Racing Team the only crew not to have any French representation.

Onboard Reporters

Only one of this cycle’s crop of onboard reporters (OBR) is a veteran of previous editions of The Ocean Race. Indeed, having chronicled the adventures of three around-the-world campaigns prior to this one 11th Hour Racing Team’s Amory Ross (USA) is arguably the most experienced OBR in the race’s history.

Ross was onboard PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG (USA) in the 2011-12 edition, with Team Alvimedica (USA/TUR) in 2014-15, and with Vestas 11th Hour Racing in 2017-18. Amongst the first-timers in this challenging role are five from France – Charles Drapeau on GUYOT environnement – Team Europe, Anne Beaugé and Ronan Gladu on Biotherm, Julien Champolion on Team Holcim - PRB, as well as the French/German Antoine Auriol on Team Malizia, and China’s Minghao Zhang completing the three-person rotation on Biotherm.

Age is just a number

There is a 24-year age range between this edition’s youngest sailor – 25-year-old Tom Laperche (FRA) on Team Holcim - PRB – and the oldest – 49-year-old Yann Eliès (FRA) on Team Malizia.

Laperche – along with the Netherlands’ Rosalin Kuiper (27), France’s Amélie Grassi (28) on Biotherm, German Phillip Kasüske (28) on GUYOT environnement - Team Europe, and Britain’s Will Harris (29) on Team Malizia, make up a group of five sailors aged under-thirty when this edition of the race began.

As under-28 first-time competitors in The Ocean Race Kasüske, Kuiper, Laperche are each eligible for the Hans Horrevoets Rookie Trophy, which is awarded to the best young newcomer judged to have delivered the most outstanding performance during the 2022-23 edition. The trophy was first presented in 2009 to commemorate Horrevoets’ death after the young Dutch bowman was lost overboard from ABN AMRO TWO during the 2005-06 edition.

When the skippers are ranked by age GUYOT environnement – Team Europe’s co-skipper Benjamin Dutreux is the youngest at 32, ahead of 11th Hour Racing Team’s Charlie Enright at 38, Biotherm’s Paul Meilhat (FRA) at 40 and Team Malizia’s Boris Herrmann (GER) both at 41, with Team Holcim - PRB skipper Kevin Escoffier the oldest at 42.

When it comes to the average age of the teams’ sailing squads, GUYOT environnement – Team Europe are the youngest at an average of 35.6, a fraction ahead of Team Holcim - PRB at 35.8, followed by Team Malizia at 36.3, 11th Hour Racing Team at 37, leaving Biotherm, at 37.2, as the oldest squad based on average age. Veterans and Rookies

The Veterans

Only one entry – 11th Hour Racing Team – features a sailing squad made up entirely of veterans of The Ocean Race.

The American team’s Simon Fisher (GBR) has the most past participations to his name having raced with ABN AMRO TWO (NED) in 2005-06, Telefónica Blue (ESP) in 2008-09, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (AUH) in 2011-12 and 2014-15, and Vestas 11th Hour Racing (DEN / USA) in 2017-18.

11th Hour Racing Team skipper Charlie Enright (USA) raced the 2014-15 edition as skipper on Team Alvimedica, and in the same role with Vestas 11th Hour Racing in 2017-18, while Justine Mettraux (SUI) raced the 2014-15 edition with Team SCA (SWE), and with Dongfeng Race Team (CHN) in 2017-18, Francesca Clapcich (ITA) raced with Turn the Tide on Plastic (UN) in 2017-18, and Jack Bouttell raced in both the 2014-15 and 2017-18 editions with Dongfeng Race Team.

Other returning The Ocean Race competitors are:

Biotherm: Sam Davies (GBR) – 2014-15 with Team SCA Anthony Marchand (FRA) – 2014-15 with MAPFRE

GUYOT environnement – Team Europe: Annie Lush (GBR) – 2014-15 with Team SCA and 2017-18 with Team Brunel (NED) Támara Echegoyen (ESP) – 2017-18 with MAPFRE

Team Holcim - PRB: Abby Ehler (GBR) – 2001-02 with Team Amer Sports Too, 2014-15 with Team SCA, and 2017-18 with Team Brunel Sam Goodchild (GBR) – 2014-15 with MAPFRE (ESP) Fabien Delahaye (FRA) – 2017-18 with Dongfeng Race Team

Team Malizia: Nicolas Lunven (FRA) – 2014-15 with MAPFRE and 2017-18 Turn the Tide on Plastic

Meanwhile, 13 competitors from the inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe in 2021 are competing in The Ocean Race 2022-23 around the world.

Team Malizia: Will Harris – AkzoNobel Ocean Racing (NED) Nicolas Lunven – Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team (POR) Rosalin Kuiper – AkzoNobel Ocean Racing (NED)

GUYOT environnement – Team Europe: Benjamin Dutreux – Offshore Team Germany Robert Stanjek – Offshore Team Germany Annie Lush – Offshore Team Germany Phillip Kasüske – Offshore Team Germany

Biotherm: Mariana Lobato – Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team

11th Hour Racing Team: Justine Mettraux – 11th Hour Racing Team Simon Fisher – 11th Hour Racing Team Charlie Enright – 11th Hour Racing Team Jack Bouttell – Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team

The Rookies

In total there are 15 sailors who are taking on The Ocean Race for the first time during the 2022-23 edition.

Team Malizia: Yann Eliès (FRA) Will Harris (GBR) Boris Herrmann (GER) Rosalin Kuiper (NED) Axelle Pillain (FRA)

GUYOT environnement – Team Europe: Benjamin Dutreux (FRA) Sébastien Simon (FRA) Robert Stanjek (GER) Phillip Kasüske (GER)

Biotherm: Paul Meilhat (FRA) Amélie Grassi (FRA) Damien Seguin (FRA)

Team Holcim - PRB: Susann Beucke (GER) Tom Laperche (FRA)

Olympians and Paralympians

The Ocean Race has a well established reputation for attracting the very best sailing talent from across the globe. The current edition is no different and the crew lists include three Olympians (GUYOT environnement - Team Europe’s Robert Stanjek and Annie Lush, along with 11th Hour Racing’s Francesca Clapcich), two Olympic medallists – Támara Echegoyen from GUYOT environnement - Team Europe (gold at London 2012), Olympic silver medallist Susann Beucke on Team Holcim - PRB (silver at Tokyo 2020) – as well as Biotherm’s Damian Seguin (Paralympic gold at Athens 2004, silver at Beijing 2008, and gold at London 2012) dotted throughout the fleet.

Vendée Globe Veterans

The latest edition of The Ocean Race is the first time in which the 60-foot offshore foiling IMOCA yachts are being raced in fully-crewed configuration. Previously, this class was best known for offshore solo sailing in events like the Vendée Globe – so it is no surprise to see eight past competitors in that infamous non-stop around-the-world race amongst The Ocean Race 2022-23 teams.

GUYOT environnement – Team Europe: Benjamin Dutreux 2020-21 Sébastien Simon 2020-21

Team Malizia: Boris Herrmann 2020-21 Yann Eliès 2008-09, 2016-17

Biotherm: Paul Meilhat 2016-17 Sam Davies 2008-09, 2012-13, 2020-21 Damien Seguin 2020-21

Team Holcim - PRB: Kevin Escoffier 2020-21

Design and Build

When it came to choosing a naval architect capable of conjuring up an IMOCA design fast and resilient enough to win The Ocean Race 2022-23 it seems that the teams were all fishing in the same small talent pond.

French foiling maestro Guillaume Verdier has had a hand in the design four out of the five boats – having worked exclusively on 11th Hour Racing Team’s Mālama, Holcim - PRB, and Biotherm – as well as in conjunction with Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost French design house VPLP on GUYOT environnement – Team Europe’s IMOCA, which was originally Alex Thompson’s HUGO BOSS and later 11th Hour Racing Team’s training boat Alaka'i. The design for Team Malizia’s Malizia – Seaexplorer was created by VPLP.

Although the GUYOT environnement – Team Europe IMOCA was originally launched back in 2015, it was in August 2010 that 11th Hour Racing Team’s Mālama became the first of the new generation of The Ocean Race 2022-23 boats to be launched. May 2022 saw the Holcim - PRB 60-footer float for the first time, with Malizia – Seaexplorer and Biotherm following suit in July and September respectively.

Are You Tough Enough? This Round-the-World Race is Known as the ‘Everest of Sailing’

There are grueling sports and then there’s the Volvo Ocean Race.

The “Everest of sailing” is a triennial sporting event that sees seven teams battle it out on the world’s oceans. For nine months, the 66 ft. racing vessels pursue a 45,000 nautical-mile marathon, stopping in 12 cities in five continents before crossing the finishing line at the Hague, on the west coast of the Netherlands, in June.

“Imagine that you’re sitting there in your little boats in the middle of the ocean,” Bouwe Bekking, the Dutch skipper of Team Brunel, recently told TIME during a stopover in Hong Kong after a 5,600 nautical mile fourth leg from Melbourne, Australia. “There are huge waves, huge winds, and you’re just on a tiny nutshell in the middle of nowhere. You realize actually how vulnerable you are. “

Bekking, 54, is the most experienced sailor in the race’s history. This year is his eighth attempt at winning. During an in-port race in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, his eight crew members demonstrated the agility of the yacht they call home for most of a year. They haul at ropes and heave on grinders that winch the main sail up the 30 ft mast. The boat heels suddenly while the crew lets out a ballooning spinnaker to catch even more wind as Team Brunel swerves to within a few meters of a competitor. For a non-sailor, it’s a hair-rising ride. For Team Brunel, it’s nothing compared to the untrammeled fury of the open ocean.

“It’s a very wet job. When we’re sailing faster than 30-40 knots, there’s water on the deck all the time,” Bekking says. “But it’s a special thing, especially because it’s 24/7, and I think that’s what makes it so unique.”

It began as an adventure. In 1973, British brewing company, Whitbread, and the British Royal Navy Sailing Association, teamed up to sponsor a global regatta. The Whitbread Round the World Race, as it was then called, followed a 27,000 nautical mile route once plied by nineteenth century cargo ships.

“It used to be an ocean voyage,” says Barry Pickthall, author of Sailing Legends: Volvo Ocean Race . “Now, it’s an ocean sprint.”

Today, the race is a professional machine, with millions of corporate dollars pumped into it. The course length has nearly doubled and teams sail identical 12,500 kilogram carbon yachts. With on-board reporters documenting each day, fans can practically live stream the race through social media. The race has become a vanguard in the sport of sailing, with an “important trickle down effect” for the advancement of sail design and technology, says Pickthall. “It’s the pinnacle of the sport.”

But for all its technological innovations, life on board is primitive. Each leg spans 20 to 25 days. To reduce weight, the crew subsists on freeze dried food. There’s nowhere to shower or wash clothes. It’s cold, it’s wet, and there’s no privacy. Sleep takes place in narrow net bunks hung below deck, where it’s noisy. On a good night, crew members get two to four hours of sleep.

“You just get on with it,” says Team Brunel helmsman Peter Burling, a New Zealand Olympic gold medalist and 2017 World Sailor of the Year. “That’s part of offshore racing.”

When mother nature is referee, things can go horribly wrong. Take Annie Lush, a Team Brunel trimmer, who’s previously competed in the Olympics and the Volvo Ocean race once before. During Leg 3 from Cape Town to Melbourne, the team was battling relentless winds of up to 60 knots (about 69 mph). A massive wave crashed down on the boat, slamming Lush several meters back against the deck. She broke three bones: two in her foot, one in her back — and the boat was not even halfway through the voyage. Lush was crippled for ten days on the roaring seas, thousands of miles away from a doctor’s aid, until the crew reached land on Christmas Eve.

“When you choose to do something like the Volvo Ocean Race … it has dangers with it as it would if you were going to climb Everest, or I suppose anything where you’re somewhere where you won’t be able to get rescued,” says Lush.

“It might sound horrific, which it is sometimes,” Lush says. “But it’s also amazing. I can’t really say words that would justify some of the sunrises and sunsets you see. We see some pretty beautiful things — whales feeding, dolphins — everything you can imagine.”

They see some shocking things too. No matter how far from land these crews sail, from Chile’s southernmost Cape Horn to the fringes of Antarctica, issues such as pollution and plastics are inescapable.

Lush recounts seeing rubbish along countless coastlines, trash caught on the boat’s keel, and a seal playing with a plastic bag somewhere in the expanse of the Southern Ocean.

“We travel to some of the most remote places on the planet, and sadly we’re seeing the reality that microplastics are existing, even in the Southern Ocean,” says Dee Caffari, legendary British sailor who was the first woman to sail solo, nonstop around the world in both directions.

Her team, Turn the Tide on Plastic, is promoting the United Nations’ Clean Seas campaign to rid the ocean of marine plastic litter. The boat is also doubling as a laboratory for ocean health. Volvo has equipped each vessel with instruments to collect data on ocean pollution over the course of the race, but Turn the Tide on Plastic is testing specifically for microplastics — tiny plastic fragments that can ultimately contaminate the food chain. The ultimate goal is to build a map of microplastic concentrations around the world.

Every year, eight million metric tons of plastic end up in the world’s seas. Coral reefs, sometimes called the rainforests of the sea, are being infected by billions of pieces of plastic . And according to some estimates, by 2050 the world’s oceans will be filled with more plastic mass than fish mass.

“This year we decided to take a step further integrating sustainability … especially tacking plastic pollution,” says Anne-Cecil Turner, sustainability program leader of the race. “Empowering people to take action at every level, from the general public to the government.”

Research from Turn the Tide on Plastic found microplastic particles in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, west of South Africa, in Australian waters, and even near the far reaches of the Antarctic Ice Exclusion Zone.

Says Caffari, who’s the only female skipper in this year’s race: “This is my sixth time around the world and I see it deteriorating each time I go around.”

Since departing Hong Kong last week, the yachts are now on Leg 6, charging their way through the Coral Sea to Auckland, New Zealand. After a stopover in Auckland the crews will take on the toughest and most important leg — 7,600 nautical miles across the mighty Southern Ocean, where they will contend with storms, huge waves, icebergs and the legendary Cape Horn — as they race to the Brazilian city of Itajaí.

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GLOBE 40: A LIFELONG DREAM

The GLOBE 40 is a Round the World race, which is accessible to both informed amateurs and professional skippers. It is a Round the World, which combines competitive performance, adventure and travel, a Round the World whose course takes skippers off the beaten track and offers up some unique stopovers, a Round the World on a craft that is accessible both competitively and financially.

The Class40 is the benchmark monohull for offshore racing with the 60-foot Imoca Vendée Globe.

It is an international support which gives the Globe40 a planetary dimension.

The start of the 2nd edition of the Globe40 will be given in Cadiz in Spain in September 2025. After sailing more than 30,000 miles and completing 6 legs, the Globe40 will finish in Lorient in April 2026, Europe’s leading centre for ocean racing.

A double race

The Globe40 is a double-handed race with the possibility of changing one of the two skippers at each stage.

2025-2026 legs program

Prologue lorient.

• Sunday 31th August: start of the prologue

Cadix the great start

• Thursday 4th and Friday 5th September 2025: arrival of the competitors from Lorient (Globe40 prologue)
• Saturday 6th September: inauguration of the village and the start of the entertainment programme
• Saturday 13th September: presentation of the crews in the village
• Sunday 14th September: start of the 1st leg to Mindelo in Cape Verde

Mindelo, Cape Verde

• Arrival of competitors estimated around 20th September 2025
• Thursday 02nd October 2025: start of the 2nd stage to Reunion Island

Reunion Island

• Arrival of the competitors estimated around 1st November 2025
• Friday 21st November 2025: start of the 3rd stage to Sydney in Australia

Sydney, Australia

• Arrival of competitors estimated around 15th December 2025
• Thursday 1st January 2026: start of the 4th stage to Valparaiso, Chile

Valparaiso, Chile

• Arrival of competitors estimated around 31st January 2026
• Wednesday 18th February: start of the 5th stage to Recife, Brazil

Recife, Brazil

• Estimated arrival of competitors around 15th March 2026
• Sunday 29th March: start of the 6th stage to Lorient, France

Lorient Agglomeration arrival

• Arrival of competitors estimated around 17th April 2026

THE GLOBE40 STARTS AT THE END OF THE MONTH!

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Kirsten Neuschafer wins 2022 Golden Globe Race and makes history

• Katy Stickland
• April 27, 2023

Kirsten Neuschafer has become the first woman to win a solo, round the world yacht race after winning the 2022 Golden Globe Race

Kirsten Neuschafer made it very clear from the start that she was aiming to win the 2022 Golden Globe Race . And now the South African skipper has achieved her goal, and made history in the process.

After just over 235 days at sea, the sailor crossed the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne in France at 9pm CEST on 27 April 2023 and became the first woman to win a solo, round the world yacht race.

After a painfully slow final few miles as she ghosted towards the finish, Neuschafer actually crossed the finish line around 10 hours behind competitor, Simon Curwen, but a previous stop for repairs for the British sailor had already relegated him to the Chichester class (for those who make a single landfall).

No wind, meant it took hours for Kirsten Neuschafer to sail the Minnehaha over the finish line. Credit: Katy Stickland

Second-time Golden Globe Race competitor, Abhilash Tomy will be the next boat across the finish line, lying some 100nm astern of Neuschafer. That these three will finish within the space of a couple of days after 235 days at sea speaks to the high level of competition between these front runners.

Tired but jubilant, the focussed 39-year-old, who throughout much of the race had no idea she was leading, celebrated a hard-fought victory. Her Cape George 36 cutter, Minnehaha was then towed up the channel to the pontoon as thousands of people cheered and applauded her incredible achievement.

Among them were 2022 Golden Globe Race skippers Ian Herbert-Jones, who had just arrived from Cape Town, having been rescued from his dismasted boat just weeks before, and French sailor Damien Guillou , whose race ended after windvane steering failure on approach to Cape Town.

‘I feel very emotional and honoured,’ said Neuschafer after finishing the race. ‘I am never going to forget the welcome. I want to thank my fellow skippers as without them, there would have been no race. Simon was very difficult as he was always in front of me and I knew Abhilash was close, and this encouraged me to navigate as quickly as possible.’

Kirsten Neuschafer – the winner of the 2022 Golden Globe Race and the first woman to win a solo round the world yacht race. Credit: Katy Stickland

1997 Vendée Globe veteran Catherine Chabaud, the first female sailor to race solo non stop around the world without assistance, and the winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Race, Jean-Luc van den Heede, were there to greet Neuschafer as she stepped off her boat after nearly 8 months at sea.

Her official finishing time was 233 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes and 47 seconds. This takes into account the 35 hour time compensation and 30 litre fuel allowance given to her following her role in the rescue of fellow race skipper, Tapio Lehtinen,

Neuschafer said she was driven to keep going, even in calms and the doldrums on the way up the Atlantic, where she regularly went swimming to deal with the frustration.

‘I never thought I would give up; there was no reason to think this as I had full confidence in the boat. I never doubted I would get to the finish line.’

Catherine Chabaud, the first female sailor to race solo non stop around the world without assistance was there to greet Kirsten Neuschafter on. her arrival. Credit: Katy Stickland

Throughout the 2022 Golden Globe Race , Kirsten Neuschafer has fought to be at the front of the fleet, her ambition to win driving her more than many of the other entrants.

She deliberately chose a boat that she believed could win the race and survive the Southern Ocean.

Speaking to Yachting Monthly from Prince Edward Island, where she was refitting the boat, she said: ‘From the outset it wasn’t a question of taking any boat that was available and in my price range; it was to choose a boat that I believe can win and can survive the Southern Ocean , and then get that boat at any cost, no matter how much work.’

Kirsten Neuschafer in the lead, in early March 2023. Credit: Kirsten Neuschafer/GGR 2022

Her choice of the Cape George 36 paid off. Minnehaha has the longest LWL in the fleet, and with a generous cutter rigged 806sq ft sail plan, the boat achieved slightly higher speeds than her counterparts.

As a result, she holds the 2022 Golden Globe Race records for the best 4 hour speed average (9.80 knots), best 24 hour distance (218.9nm) and best 7 day distance (1,216.2nm).

The boat’s performance was evident after her average start in the race, but she constantly pushed, choosing to hand steer the boat rather than just rely on her Hydrovane windvane steering to make up for lost ground. Her disappointment coming 6th through the first race gate at Lanzarote was evident, but her motivation was stronger.

Kirsten Neuschafer prepared Minnehaha on Prince Edward Island. Credit: Patricia Richard

Having exited the Bay of Biscay in 10th place, she was soon climbing the leader board. Coming down the Atlantic, she chose a more coastal route to keep the island of Trinidade to port; a strategy to make the most of the current and receive weather information via her weather fax so she could identify the location of the South Atlantic High.

She took the longer, southern route with a more comfortable point of sail to reach the race’s second gate at Cape Town; a strategy that paid off when she was second through the gate behind the then race leader Simon Curwen .

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By this time, Curwen was extending his lead as he began crossing the Indian Ocean. Days after leaving Cape Town, Kirsten Neuschafer diverted from her race route to rescue fellow entrant Tapio Lehtinen, after his Gaia 36, Asteria sank around 450 miles south east of South Africa.

At the time, Neuschafer was 105 miles from Lehtinen’s position; she hand steered through the night, posting speeds of 7 knots to reach him the following morning. Once safely onboard, they waited for the arrival of the Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier Darya Gayatri , which would take Lehtinen to port.

Kirsten Neuschafer and Tapio Lehtinen share rum after the rescue of the Finnish skipper from his liferaft. Credit: Kirsten Nesuchafer/GGR 2022

Neuschafer was awarded a 35 hour time compensation and a 30 litre fuel allowance by the Golden Globe Race organisers.

Back in race mode, she pushed hard across the Indian Ocean, gaining 500 miles on Curwen and arrived just 29.5 hours behind him in Hobart. She briefly took first place when passing through Tasmania but then became trapped in no wind zones around New Zealand for several days.

This allowed Curwen to extend his lead by 900 miles; by this time, he was also sailing in a different weather system to Neuschafer and her nearest rival, Abhilash Tomy .

Neuschafer and Tomy swapped second and third place positions across the South Pacific, Neuschafer often frustrated by the calms, and her inability to find the better wind, which was often in the race’s Pacific exclusion zone.

She dived for 8 hours to remove the barnacles from the boat’s hull to improve her speed.

Kirsten Neuschafer/ rounded Cape Horn on Day 164 of the race. Credit: Kirsten Neuschafer/GGR 2022

Curwen, who had a 1,200 mile lead, then reported the failure of his Hydrovane self-steering gear , which forced him to make a 1,000 mile detour to Chile to make repairs; this also put him in the Chichester Class for entrants who make one stop.

This meant both Neuschafer and Tomy were back in the race for first place.

After 150 days of racing, Neuschafer took the lead and was the first to round Cape Horn on 15 February 2023.

But her routing decision up the Atlantic allowed Tomy to make gains in his Rustler 36, Bayanat , despite battling problems with his Wind Pilot windvane steering, his rig, rigging, and having to hand-stitch his mainsail after it ripped in two.

Kirsten Neuschafer took a more easterly route up the Atlantic. Credit: Kirsten Neuschäfer/GGR2022

Unlike Tomy, who stayed close to the rhumb line, Kirsten Neuschafer, who was sailing more conservatively due to a bend in Minehaha’s bowsprit, decided to take a more easterly route.

At the time she said: ‘I read up in  Ocean Passages for the World what is the best route for this time of year and the route is to pass 80 miles south of the Falklands and make for a point to the east of 35°S and 30°W at this time of year, and this is what I’ve been doing. I don’t know if it was a good idea to follow the suggestions or not.’

Doubting her easterly route, she took a more northerly route; it was a decision which would prove incredibly frustrating for Kirsten Neuschafer, who sailed through more light winds than any other 2022 Golden Globe Race sailor while sailing up the Atlantic, and meant she crossed a very wide doldrums.

This allowed both Tomy and Curwen to make gains on her position before Curwen in his Biscay 36, Clara , took the lead and become the first of the 2022 Golden Globe Race fleet to cross the finish line.

Positions of the Golden Globe Race 2022 skippers on 27 April 2022 at 2100 CEST

Kirsten Neuschafer, (South Africa), Cape George 36 cutter, Minnehaha – FINISHED 1st Abhilash Tomy , (India), Rustler 36, Bayanat – 100nm to the finish Michael Guggenberger , (Austria), Biscay 36, Nuri – 1800nm to the finish

Chichester Class:

Simon Curwen , (UK), Biscay 36, Clara – FINISHED 1st (Chichester Class) Jeremy Bagshaw , (South Africa), OE32, Olleanna – 2600nm to the finish

Edward Walentynowicz , (Canada), Rustler 36, Noah’s Jest Guy deBoer , (USA), Tashiba 36, Spirit Mark Sinclair (Australia), Lello 34, Coconut Pat Lawless , (Ireland), Saltram Saga 36 , Green Rebel Damien Guillou , (France), Rustler 36, PRB Ertan Beskardes , (UK), Rustler 36, Lazy Otter Tapio Lehtinen , (Finland), Gaia 36, Asteria Arnaud Gaist , (France), Barbican 33 Mk 2, Hermes Phoning Elliot Smith ,  (USA), Gale Force 34, Second Wind Guy Waites (UK), Tradewind 35, Sagarmatha Ian Herbert-Jones (UK), Tradewind 35, Puffin

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3 Months And 24,000 Miles Later, Vendée Globe Competitors Complete Race

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After sailing 24,000 miles nonstop in a nearly three-month journey, competitors in the Vendée Globe — an around-the-world solo yacht race — are expected to finish at a French port on Wednesday.

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By: Zeke Quezada, ASA Destinations , Event , Inside Sailing , Sailing Fun

As American Sailing evolves our curriculum to offer more racing options through North U, I am attempting to learn more about sailboat racing. If you are following along with my journey to become a racer, you know that I am a neophyte when it comes to racing. I am a cruiser. I am a self-described “lazy sailor” that does not focus on trimming my sails and instead works on not dropping my chips and salsa while sailing.

You can get an idea of my journey in my last two pieces on sailing and racing:

SAIL TRIM FOR CRUISERS: WHY TRIM YOUR SAILS?

HOW TO GRADUATE FROM CRUISER TO RACER — STEPS TO START RACING SAILBOATS

I plan to find out more about the serious and not-so-serious side of sailboat racing. Many people, even non-sailors, know what the America’s Cup is, and may have even turned on a sports network to catch a SailGP race. But there is far more to sailing races than those two.

Here’s an overview of seven of the big races, regattas, and race series that occur regularly around the world. These are iconic events, both old and new, that shape the world of racing and have inspired sailors for generations to challenge themselves to new heights, both on and off the water.

Cowes Week is one of the oldest and most prestigious sailing regattas in the world, held every August in the Solent waters off Cowes, UK. The event has been around since 1826, and it’s known for attracting some of the best sailors from around the globe. It’s the largest sailing regatta of its kind in the world, with up to 1,000 boats and 8,000 competitors taking part in the 40 daily sailing races.

Whether you’re an Olympic or world-class pro, or just a weekend sailor, Cowes Week is an event that has something for everyone. And even if you’re not into sailing, the regatta is still a spectacle to behold – with stunning views of the coastline and plenty of festivities both on and off the water. 

Once you discover the allure of racing it appears that Cowes Week might be worthy of a sailing vacation that includes either participating in a race or just being involved as a spectator. I am not there yet, but it could happen.

Next Race Date: July 29 – Aug 4, 2023 Cowes Week Website

The Ocean Race

I do know about The Ocean Race only because prior to the new owner taking over, it was the Volvo Ocean Race for twenty years and that is how they got me to buy a Volvo. I walked into the dealership and saw some mesmerizing sailboat pictures and I signed the contract and drove away.  I am a sucker.

The Ocean Race is a round-the-world yacht race that occurs every three years. It’s known as one of the most challenging sailing races globally, spanning over 45,000 nautical miles. The race consists of multiple legs and lasts about nine months. The race starts in Europe and ends in Asia or Oceania. The exact route changes with each edition of the race.

Both professional sailors and amateur sailors can participate in this race. The teams are composed of eight sailors, all racing on the same boats. These boats are specially designed to be fast and robust, capable of enduring the tough conditions of the open ocean.

This race used to be known as the Whitbread Round the World Race until it was renamed the Volvo Ocean Race and now is known as The Ocean Race.

Next Race Date: Currently in progress at the time of the post! The Ocean Race Website

America’s Cup 

My first foray into sailing racing was when Dennis Conner won the America’s Cup.  I was a kid watching the news and learned about sailing through this huge event on the vessel, Stars and Stripes. Years later I took a ride on what I was told was the same boat. I was skeptical about the origin of the vessel I was on but that day I learned a lot about how much I loved the idea of sailing. A couple of years later I bought a boat.

The America’s Cup is held every few years on dates agreed between the defender and the challenger. There is no fixed schedule, but the races have generally been held every three to four years. The most recent America’s Cup match took place in March 2021. 

The 37th America’s Cup Official Opening Ceremony will be held in Barcelona on 22 August 2024. The Final Preliminary Event and the Challenger Selection Series will follow, leading up to the America’s Cup Match that will start on 12 October 2024. During 2023/early 2024, there is potential for up to three preliminary events. By June 2023, all the teams will have their base set up and be training in Barcelona.

The competition takes place between teams representing different countries or yacht clubs. The event involves a series of races where high-tech racing yachts, known as America’s Cup Class boats, compete in head-to-head races that test their speed, agility, and teamwork.

The competition dates back to 1851 when a schooner called America won a race around the Isle of Wight. The trophy, now known as the America’s Cup, was donated to the New York Yacht Club and has since become one of the most prestigious prizes in sailing.

Next Race Date: October 12, 2024 The America’s Cup Website

Vendée Globe

If I was a racer I am sure that The Vendée Globe would be the race that would inspire me to go hard into this type of adventure. The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop yacht race around the world without assistance. It takes place every four years and is an extreme form of sailing.  It is said that more people have been into space than have finished the Vendee Globe. First held in 1989, the race starts and ends in Les Sables-d’Olonne, a small town on the west coast of France, and covers a distance of approximately 45,000 km.

Sailors must navigate their way through some of the most treacherous waters on the planet, including the Southern Ocean and the Cape Horn. Sailors must rely solely on their own skills, knowledge, and experience to complete the race. They face extreme weather conditions, sleep deprivation, and the constant threat of danger as they navigate their way around the world. 

The boats are designed specifically for the event and are some of the most advanced sailing vessels in the world, capable of speeds of up to 30 knots.

Next Race Date: November 10, 2024 The Vend é e Globe Website

St. Maarten Heineken Regatta

I must confess that I had a very nice t-shirt from this regatta that I purchased at the St. Maarten airport. I was leaving the country and realized that I had not bought any souvenirs so I found this shirt in the terminal and wore it like a proud sailboat racer. I was an imposter, I had never even seen any of the race and I did not know it existed.

The St. Maarten Heineken Regatta is a massive sailing event that takes place on the island of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean. It’s actually the biggest regatta in the Caribbean and the largest warm water regatta in the world.

The event attracts top sailors from 37 countries, who compete in a series of races over four days. The competition draws in sailors that are both professionals and passionate amateurs who just love to sail.

Next Race Date: Feb 29 – Mar 3, 2024 St. Maarten Regatta Website

Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac)

If you live and sail in Southern California, you will hear about Transpac. I have heard about it, and I did not realize it was a race. I always figured it was a group of sailors who sailed across the Pacific to Hawaii in a large caravan, like a large flotilla, without any daily stops. I will confess that when I sailed my Catalina 27 five times a week, I had a few fantasies about tagging along in my boat and stopping over in Hawaii with the Transpac crowd. But, unfortunately, I was misguided.

The Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) is a biennial offshore yacht race held in odd-numbered years starting off the Pt. Fermin buoy in San Pedro, California, and ending off Diamond Head in Hawaii, a distance of around 2,225 nautical miles (2,560 mi; 4,121 km). It is one of the world’s oldest major ocean races for sailing yachts. The race was first held in 1906 and made a biennial event in 1939 to alternate with the Bermuda Race.

Next Race Date: June 27, 2023 TransPac Website

Now in its 4th season, SailGP is a newer series race held as a competition between nations on identical F50 catamarans. Currently the nations competing include Australia, New Zealand, Emirates Great Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, United States, Switzerland, and Spain. The race is held on weekends in iconic locations around the world modeled in a grand prix format similar to Formula 1 in which points accumulate throughout the season based on winnings from each race and contribute toward a championship. 

The race series has a really great app you can use to follow along and watch live, or on YouTube, and they are doing wonderful work expanding the sport’s impact initiatives through their second championship leaderboard that tracks the positive actions the teams make to reduce their overall carbon footprint and help accelerate inclusivity in sailing. The coverage of this series is great to watch – it has a high production value including live mics on the sailors and post race interviews with the sailors. The commentators do a good job educating the audience as to the basics of sailboat racing as well as explaining the racing rules.

Season 4 Opening Race: June 16-17, 2023 Chicago Sail GP Website

So which race strikes your fancy? Here’s hoping you enjoy some of these and find some new inspiration in your sailing journey!

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Triana, Spirit of Helsinki & Maiden Battle for Gold in McIntyre OGR

L’Esprit D’équipe to cross finish line tonight for second in Line Honours!

• L’Esprit D’équipe FR (85) FLYING AT 10K to the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes finish line tonight taking second-in-line honours for Leg 4 of the Ocean Globe Race. Possible IRC LEG 4 SHAKE UP! Second French yacht to finish after Pen Duick VI FR (14) took line honours on 11th April.
• Every minute, nautical mile, tack and sail change is now crucial as the overall IRC winning title is up for grabs in McIntyre Ocean Globe Race. It’s too close to call.
• Triana FR (66) under massive pressure to hold on to top spot as just hours separate them, Spirit of Helsinki FI (71) and Maiden UK (03) for coveted IRC title.

Former Whitbread Winner, L’Esprit D’équipe FR (85), making 10 knots toward the finish line and is expected to cross tonight around 1900hrs UTC 13TH APRIL to take a provisional second place in line honours LEG 4, after 216 days at sea and a possible shake up of the declared IRC first place. The French yacht skippered by Lionel Regnier, has finally shown in this leg what she is capable of, not always placing as high on the leaderboard as they’d hoped. Designed by the architect Philippe Briand, she was Formerly known as 33 Export and Esprit de Liberté , and has taken part in three Whitbread races, winning the 1985 Whitbread race.

The hard-working crew are certainly not going to rest until they cross the line and many are now holding their breath to see if she can actually beat the PEN DUICK VI IRC finish time, which was not originally expected… WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!

This is a crazy situation for sure with final positions being decided not just by crew work but with a matrix of performance, weather, currents and luck but that is yacht racing so we are all excited by such a close result leveled by the IRC rule after 8 months racing around the world! Don McIntyre, OGR founder

The McIntyre Ocean Globe race finish could not be closer or more intense and it’s only going to get more nail biting!! The French, Finns and the iconic UK entrant Maiden UK (03) are engaged in an epic battle for the coveted title of Overall IRC Race Winner of the McIntyre Ocean Globe Race. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread Round the World Race, nothing could honour that race more than the finale being witnessed on the North Atlantic between the determined crews scrambling to take first place in the inaugural OGR.

At the time of writing, the Swan 53 Triana FR (66) was topping the Overall IRC leaderboard, with a projected elapsed time of (180d 14h ). Skippered by Jean d’Arthuys , the French yacht only holds a (2 HOURS) lead over the Finns onboard the former Whitbread yacht Spirit of Helsinki FI (71) who have a projected elapsed time of (180d 16h ). Maiden UK (03) and her all-female crew, who raced in the 1985 Whitbread, sit just (4 HOURS) behind Spirit of Helsinki in third place – with a corrected elapsed time of (180d 19h 58m 18s). Only hours are separating these yachts who raced across the Cowes start line 216 days ago to begin their round-the-world adventure. It’s time to lay your bets between these pioneers of retro sailing.

But this is where it all gets so interesting, with relative speed over distance becoming the key factor in play in determining the rankings. Spirit of Helsinki and Maiden are due to cross the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes finish line in the coming days, giving them a provisional Overall Race IRC ranking and time. Triana , having been caught in wind hole after wind hole, still has over 1200 nm to race. This means that Triana will need to race consistently faster than both Spirit of Helsinki and Maiden over the same distance to remain in first position. At the moment it’s not looking good for Triana . But that’s sailing, and anything can happen – Triana ’s favorable IRC rating MIGHT just save them.

Despite knowing their dream of IRC overall title slips without every wind hole the crew are trying to remain positive.

“Drifted past Santa Maria (Azores) yesterday and still there this am. Three of us went in for a hull scrub. Keeping the spirits high despite our challenges.” tweeted Triana.

Just two days ago it looked like the French legend, Pen Duick VI FR (14), could take the Overall IRC title but has now slipped to 4th place on the IRC Overall leaderboard – a prime example of how rankings can change so quickly!

Triana , who took IRC honours for Leg 3, Cape Town to Punta del Este , started Leg 4 with an almost seven-day lead on the IRC overall rankings, many assuming they would take the title unchallenged. But that has proved far from the case. Despite being one of the smallest yachts in the fleet, the Swan 53 has consistently impressed with impressive speeds, keeping up with far larger yachts throughout the circumnavigation. But Leg 4 has proved a nightmare for the French yacht and crew with inconsistent winds dogging them from the beginning. They have also reported running low on food supplies – surviving on a diet of soup and flying fish.

“Day one before arrival, soon in the Channel. We have wind and are fully under spinnaker, still in the race for 1st place IRC.” tweeted L’Esprit D’équipe FR (85).

NOTE – all results are provisional and do not become official until after all compliance checks are complete, skipper and crew declarations are signed and Notice of Race obligations are met. At that time a BLUE CARD is issued and results become official.

OGR FINISH INFORMATION

Finish Line: Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, UK Berthing: Once crossing the line, the yachts will be berthed at Trinity Landing in West Cowes for 48 hours.

Don McIntyre OGR Chairman and Founder

Don McIntyre is the founder and underwriter of the goldengloberace.com the oceangloberace.com and the minigloberace.com . Follow him at mcintyreadventure.com .

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‘The America’s Cup has always been pushing boundaries’ – Matt Sheahan

• Matthew Sheahan
• August 30, 2024

America’s cup history – in miniature – reveals a lot about how and why the event has such an enduring appeal. Matt Sheahan takes a look at the AC of old

For a great pub quiz question, when was the first America’s Cup race? The answer to sailing fans is obvious: 1851 in the famous race around the Isle of Wight. For a bonus point you could add that it resulted in a humiliating British defeat and an apocryphal quote given to Queen Victoria about the absence of a second place.

Except this wasn’t the first America’s Cup race. The 1851 event was actually the £100 Cup. The first America’s Cup race was in 1870, 19 years later in New York and was a 40-mile race starting from Staten Island and heading out to the light ship off Sandy Hook and back. It was a fleet race with 14 American yachts and one British yacht, James Ashbury’s 113ft, 188 ton Cambria , which finished 10th on corrected time.

The yacht that won the very first America’s Cup race was the centreboard schooner Magic and while I’ve read the story many times, it wasn’t until recently that I realised what an impressive performance this was.

Magic was 90ft LOA and 80 tons, the smallest yacht in the race. Yet not only did she take the win on corrected time, but took line honours, beating the second boat home, the 114-footer Dauntless , by a minute and a half.

This was brought to life for me as I looked at Magic alongside Cambria in the New York Yacht Club’s famous model room recently.

I’d heard descriptions of the club on Manhattan’s 44th Street and its impressive model display and it’s been my ambition for many years to see it for real. Thanks to the kind invitation of the NYYC I got there a few weeks ago. When I did, nothing had prepared me for what the club and its collection of yachts looks like for real. Aside from the ornate grandeur of the club, inside and out, this has to be the most impressive display of yacht racing history I’ve ever seen. It’s incredible.

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Not only are there over 1,300 models throughout the club, but within the model room lies a unique collection that includes every America’s Cup Challenger and Defender from the yacht America through to the 12 metre Liberty .

These fully rigged, beautifully made models built to 1/32 scale are arranged in chronological order and grouped to reflect significant eras. Seeing the variety of shapes and sizes through different periods reinforces what the quest for the most prestigious trophy in sailing has created. Among those revelations is the striking example of just how small, flat bottomed and shallow Magic was, especially when compared to the deep draught ship-like style of Cambria .

The contrast and extremes of designs is a theme that repeats itself for decades until we get to the turn of the century and the biggest of them all, the 201ft Reliance .

Designed by Nathaniel Herreshoff as defender for the 12th America’s Cup she had a crew of 64 and was considered to be a ‘racing freak’, suitable only for certain conditions – after her win Herreshoff himself proposed the Universal Rating Rule to ‘avoid such extreme, dangerous and expensive vessels’.

Given the comments from those who don’t buy into the modern America’s Cup and accuse it of straying into extremes, this model – along with many other examples of pre-1930s designs – puts the Cup into context. The Cup has always been about pushing the boundaries of design and technology.

The J Class era that follows is beautifully represented both as an illustration of the elegance of the designs and also as an example of how class rules were trying to calm the arms race down, reduce costs and improve the racing.

And as we know, after World War II that scaling down came again with the era of the 12 meters, where the NYYC collection portrays perfectly what some think was the golden era of the Cup.

Travelling to Staten Island the next day to stand on the hill where tens of thousands of spectators had watched the first America’s Cup was also fascinating. Having not been to New York before I had little idea of the geography, let alone how similar the racing area is to the Solent. Narrow passages, shallows, strong tidal currents and the influence of the land on wind conditions: no wonder it was such a difficult trophy to try and win.

Having seen the models, artwork, architecture, trophies and topography related to the Cup, at the very least I now feel a bit better prepared for the pub quiz.

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