Golden Globe race - to qualify!

Gunni

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Mar 16, 2010
5,937
Beneteau 411 Oceanis Annapolis
I liked her other statement:
‘IN NEED OF A GOOD CUPPA TEA! BUT SADLY NO COOKER’
That’s one of those things you comm to base to let them know you haven’t broken your funny bone, and lost your ability to cope. She is in a world of danger out there. She’s injured, she’s vulnerable, she’s alone. Hopefully she’l blow out past Cape Horn and into better seas.
 
Mar 30, 2013
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Allied Seawind MK II 32' Oologah Lake, Oklahoma
It's been fun keeping tabs on this race.
It's also been kind of a bummer seeing the negative comments about the rules of the race and even the "need" to do something like it.


It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man(or woman) who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt
 
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Mikem

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Dec 20, 2009
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Hunter 466 Bremerton
Here's the full deal.

To celebrate Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s historic 1968/9 world first solo non-stop circumnavigation in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Yacht Race, a new Golden Globe Race will be staged to mark the 50th Anniversary of that epic, starting from Falmouth on June 14th, 2018. Like the original Sunday Times event,the 2018 Golden Globe Race is very simple. Depart Les Sables-d’Olonne, France on July 1st, 2018 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 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 nor 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. This anniversary edition of the Golden Globe Race is a celebration of the original event, the winner, his boat and that significant world-first achievement. Competitors in this 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 and ham 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 300 days at sea in little boats, challenging themselves and each other. The 2018 Golden Globe Race will be a fitting tribute to the first edition and it’s winner, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston.
When taking star sights or sun lines are they allowed to use a computer for the sight reductions or do they have to be manually calculated?
 
Nov 8, 2010
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Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
When taking star sights or sun lines are they allowed to use a computer for the sight reductions or do they have to be manually calculated?
Manual. Except for emergency comms gear, there is no electronics on board that RKJ did not have.
 

Mikem

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Dec 20, 2009
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Hunter 466 Bremerton
Well I suppose when flying solo at less than 10 kts one has time to do that. It certainly takes practice. I always held my breath when laying down the LOP from the third star sight hoping for a small triangle and hence a good EP. Ditto for running sun lines. Thanks, Jack
 

dLj

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Mar 23, 2017
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Belliure 41 Sailing back to the Chesapeake
Van Den Heede has won. 73 years old. Jury rigged mast since the southern ocean. Beyond amazing!

dj
 
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Jan 1, 2006
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Slickcraft 26 Sailfish
Congratulations to him. An amazing accomplishment. I think I read the time is an astounding amount faster than RKJ in the original race - a hundred days ahead. And sailing it with the the auto reef feature adds to his achievement.