First Messages For The Ocean Globe Race

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First Messages For The Ocean Globe Race
First Messages For The Ocean Globe Race

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Video: First Messages For The Ocean Globe Race
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Apparently he hit a nerve. At the end of June, Australian circumnavigator and adventurer Don McIntyre announced that he would host a new edition of the Whitbread Round The World Race in four years' time, 2023. 1973 was the first time that crews sailed the world in stages at a regattum.

Ocean Globe Race 2023 Whitbread Race Revival 2019 PR_14186
Ocean Globe Race 2023 Whitbread Race Revival 2019 PR_14186

The start of Whitbread in 1973

The race for the 50th anniversary of the Whitbread Race will be called "Ocean Globe Race" and will lead around the world on GRP series yachts based on the model from back then. However, the concept is still in its infancy; The start and destination ports are not yet known.

Feedback for the retro race

Nevertheless, the idea met with great interest worldwide, as McIntyre has now announced. He already has twelve confirmed reports. The teams come mainly from France, Great Britain and Finland, but also from Belgium, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and the USA.

Ocean Globe Race
Ocean Globe Race

Ocean Globe Race: the route planned so far

In the "Sayula" class (named after the winning boat from 1973, a Swan 65), in which GRP series yachts between 56 and 66 feet are supposed to sail, Dominique Dubois, owner of the French Multiplast shipyard, reported. The most modern ocean-going racers are built here, most recently the trimaran "Sodebo Ultim 3" by ocean-going professional Thomas Coville.

"Maiden" should be there

Tracy Edwards has also already expressed interest in participating. The now 67-year-old British sailor became known as the skipper of the first all-women crew on the "Maiden" at the 1989 Whitbread Race.

BesBoot Maiden Sailing Australia 2019 JRo_P1110329
BesBoot Maiden Sailing Australia 2019 JRo_P1110329

The "Maiden" today

The documentary about the Maiden's participation in Whitbread was released this year, but has not yet been shown in Germany

In the second starting group for smaller yachts, the Finnish ocean sailor Tapio Lehtinen and his crew want to be part of a Swan 55. As one of only five solo skippers, he finished the Golden Globe Race 2018/19 and reached the finish in Les Sables d’Olonne.

17 skippers and one female skipper started this new Golden Globe Race, but the majority of them had to give up.

Defused rules

A maximum of 30 yachts should take part in the Ocean Globe Race 2023, which will be navigated like 50 years ago: without GPS and chart plotter, without grib files and weather routing, only with sextant and paper chart. The equipment of the ships is also said to be largely the same as it was back then.

Swan 55 Galiana
Swan 55 Galiana

The Finn Tapio Lethinen wants to contest the race on the Swan 55 "Galiana" with his crew

But after discussions with potential participants in the circumnavigation, navigation electronics, carbon parts, Dyneema or Spectrim rigs can now be retained. According to the original tender, all of this should have been removed from the old but often refitted ships that make up the launch field.

Official rules at the end of next year

Don McIntyre does not want to announce the official tender, which includes the route including the port of departure and destination, until the end of 2020. Until then, there may be further changes to the original idea.

The Golden Globe Race Don McIntyre 2018 PR_3713701061422
The Golden Globe Race Don McIntyre 2018 PR_3713701061422

Initiator Don McIntyre

The Australian who lives on clay has already proven that he can mobilize ocean sailors and adventurers from all over the world with the latest Golden Globe Race. He also wants to do that again in 2022.

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