Golden Globe Race course: adjustments for 2022 version

The Golden Globe Race course will embrace 4 obligatory movie drop factors in the course of the 2022 version of the around the world yacht race.

The adjustments had been confirmed at a press convention, held just below six months earlier than the beginning of the occasion on 4 September 2022 in Les Sables d’Olonne, France.

23 skippers are at present making ready for the solo, continuous round-the-world race, with no help, no GPS and no fashionable electronics on board.

It’s thought-about by many to be the longest sporting occasion on this planet.

Golden Globe Race course for 2022. For this version there can be 4 gates. Credit score: Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580

In the course of the Golden Globe Race 2022, the sailors must go round 4 obligatory rounding marks: Lanzarote within the Canary Islands, Cape City in South Africa, Hobart in Australia and Punta del Este in Uruguay.

In the course of the 2018 Golden Globe Race, opponents had been simply required to sail to gates at Lanzarote and Hobart.

This variation within the Golden Globe Race course will allow skippers to drop their recorded movies and images at these 4 gates with out getting in touch with anybody and with out docking, permitting them to share their tales.

The unique 1968-69 Golden Globe Race was received by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – he was the one one to complete.

Tapio Lehtinen can be seeking to higher his fifth positioned place within the 2018-19 Golden Globe Race. Credit score: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR

50 years later, the retro race was re-launched by Australian sailor Don McIntyre. 17 skippers crossed the beginning line, with French offshore legend, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede taking the crown.

A few of the skippers within the 2018-19 race are returning once more for 2022.

These embrace Turkish/British sailor Ertan Beskardes, and Finnish sailor Tapio Lehtinen, who completed fifth within the 2018-2019 version after 322 days at sea.

Australian Mark Sinclair is already making his approach to the beginning line.

Continues under…

The skipper, which is named Captain Coconut after his Lello 34, left Adelaide for France in December, precisely three years after he stopped his 2018 race.

Barnacle progress on the hull of his yacht Coconut and an absence of water had been the explanations for ‘pausing’ his race, and Sinclair hopes to complete his one-stop circumnavigation in April. He has already rounded Cape Horn and is heading up the Atlantic in direction of the equator.

Different skippers can be experiencing the Golden Globe Race for the primary time.

American Elliott Smith is the youngest sailor participating. The 27-year-old, who began crusing lower than 4 years in the past, continues to be making ready his Gale Drive 34, Second Wind.

Others are already out on the water, testing and modifying their ways forward of the race begin.

Simon Curwen can be competing onboard his Biscay 36, Clara. Credit score: Ocean FrontiersOGR/ GGR/CG580/Bernard Gergaud

Eire’s Pat Lawless and South Africa’s Kirsten Neuschafer have already taken their yachts offshore, testing their storm ways and their boats for the rigours of the Southern Ocean.

A few of the skippers who’ve signed up have already skilled offshore races.

Britain’s Simon Curwen is a Mini Transat veteran, and was the primary non-French finisher within the race in 2001.

Damien Guillou of France is being backed by PRB, sponsor of two Vendée Globe successful campaigns.

He has competed within the Tour de France à la Voile and Figaro Bénéteau Class in addition to crusing IMOCAs with the likes of Jean Le Cam and Bernard Stamm.

Damien Guillou’s marketing campaign is being managed by 2004 Vendee Globe winner Vincent Riou.Credit score: Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580/©Bernard Gergaud

Guillou ready Jean Le Cam’s boat for the 2016 Vendée Globe and Kevin Escoffier’s Imoca PRB for the 2020 Vendée Globe.

Others have already sailed world wide, just like the UK’s Ian Herbert-Jones, former Clipper Race crew and Man Waites, who was first mate within the 2017-18 Clipper Around the World Race earlier than turning into the skipper of Dare to Lead within the 2019-20 version.

Others are veteran offshore racers.

Robin Davie, who sails out of his house port of Falmouth, Cornwall, has solo circumnavigated world wide 3 times within the 1990, 1994 and 1998 BOC Problem Round Alone Race.

All skippers should use conventional navigation methods to plot their course world wide. GPS and fashionable electronics are banned. Credit score: Mark Sinclair/GGR/PPL

For others, it’s a case of unfinished enterprise.

New Zealand’s Graham Dalton, the elder brother of America’s Cup’s Grant Dalton, can be aiming to sail solo world wide and win.

The 68-year-old has taken place in two editions of the Velux 5 Oceans – in 2003 his yacht was dismasted near Cape Horn, whereas in 2007 he completed the race however exterior the time allowance.

He can be racing within the 2022 Golden Globe Race in a Rustler 36 – the identical boat Jean-Luc Van den Heede received the 2018 version in.

However he might have a run for his cash.

Jean-Luc Van Den Heede on his Rustler 36 Matmut meets the press on the finish of his 211-day circumnavigation to win the 2018-19 Golden Globe Race. Credit score: Tim Bishop/PPL/GGR

David Scott Cowper is undoubtedly essentially the most skilled skipper within the race.

The a number of solo circumnavigator was the primary particular person to sail solo world wide in each instructions and to circumnavigate, solo, through the Northwest Passage.

He has sailed six Northwest Passage transits and ending the 2022 Golden Globe Race would deliver his tally of circumnavigations world wide to seven.

There is no such thing as a doubt it will likely be an exhilarating race to comply with. www.yachtingmonthly.com/goldengloberace

Loved studying Golden Globe Race course: adjustments for 2022 version?

A subscription to Yachting Month-to-month journal prices round 40% lower than the quilt value.

Print and digital editions can be found by Magazines Direct – the place you may discover the newest offers.

YM is filled with data that will help you get essentially the most out of your time on the water.

• • • Take your seamanship to the subsequent stage with ideas, recommendation and abilities from our specialists
    • Neutral in-depth evaluations of the newest yachts and tools
    • Cruising guides that will help you attain these dream locations

Comply with us on Fb, Twitter and Instagram.