Circumnavigation

Going all the way round, and the boats that survive to show for it. Slocum in a rebuilt oyster sloop between 1895 and 1898, Chichester stopping once at Sydney, Knox-Johnston taking 312 days without stopping at all and finishing as the only one of nine. Much of what is photographable here is monuments and museum vessels rather than the voyages themselves, which is honest: the boats outlived the passages.

Part of Sailing

107 moments in this segment.

  1. - Joshua Slocum cph.3b46344. 1899, p. 680. Joshua Slocum left Boston on 24 April 1895, made his final North American departure from Sambro Island Light near Halifax on 3 July 1895, and returned to Newport, Rhode Island on 27 June 1898 having sailed more than 46,000 miles. He departed Vineyard Haven on 14 November 1909 bound for the West Indies and was never heard from again; he was declared legally dead in 1924.
  2. - Illustration from Sailing Alone Around the World. A plate from Joshua Slocum's own 1900 account of his voyage. Sailing Alone Around the World sold widely and is the reason the first singlehanded circumnavigation, completed in 1898, is documented at all: Slocum wrote it himself and it has never been out of print.
  3. - FRANCIS CHICHESTER ARRIVES - SOUND. Chichester arrives at Sydney on the first half of his solo circumnavigation, filmed 18 December 1966, with his wife Sheila and son Giles meeting him and an official welcome at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. He had left Plymouth on 27 August 1966 and the passage out took 107 days. Sydney was his single stop.
  4. - Can910 Sir Francis Chichester Continues Circumnavigtion Of Globe. Francis Chichester is at Sydney on 29 January 1967, the halfway point of his single-handed circumnavigation in Gipsy Moth IV, receiving gifts including a picture and a boomerang before setting out again. From Sydney he intended to round Cape Horn for England, which he did, reaching Plymouth on 28 May 1967. Crowds turned out for the departure.
  5. - Sir Francis Chichester Returns - 1967 | Movietone Moment | 28 May 2021. Movietone's compiled record of Chichester's 1967 return to Plymouth. He had already won the first single-handed transatlantic race in 1960 in Gipsy Moth III, Plymouth to New York in 40d 12h 30m. Gipsy Moth IV was preserved alongside Cutty Sark at Greenwich.
  6. - CHICHESTER SIGHTED AT SEA - NO SOUND. A Lancaster searches for Chichester at sea on 5 June 1967, filmed from the aircraft. He returned to Plymouth on 28 May 1967 after 226 days of sailing. Elizabeth II knighted him that July using the sword Elizabeth I had used on Francis Drake.
  7. - \"SIR FRANCIS OF CAPE HORN\". Chichester leaves Sydney in Gipsy Moth IV on 2 February 1967 for the Cape Horn leg, with Movietone cutting in an older stormy Cape Horn passage to show what lay ahead. His claim is precise: first person to complete a true circumnavigation solo from west to east via the great capes. Slocum had gone round solo sixty-eight years earlier by a different route.
  8. - CHICHESTER SAILS AGAIN. 21 December 1970, aiming at 200 miles a day in his new ketch Gipsy Moth V. He was sixty-nine at the time. Movietone calls him the old man of the sea, which was the press framing throughout his late career.
  9. - TRIBUTES: SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER. Movietone's tribute to Francis Chichester, who died at Plymouth aged seventy, filmed 31 August 1972. He was born 17 September 1901 and died 26 August 1972. His west-to-east solo passage by the great capes remains the claim attached to his name.
  10. - SYND08-09-73 START OF ROUND THE WORLD YACHT RACE. The start of the first Whitbread Round the World Race, filmed 8 September 1973. Ramon Carlin of Mexico won that edition in the Swan 65 Sayula II. The race became the Volvo Ocean Race in 2001 and The Ocean Race in 2019.
  11. - SYND 11-4-74 CHEY BLYTHE FINISHES ROUND THE WORLD YACHT RACE. Chay Blyth finishes his round the world voyage, filmed 11 April 1974. Blyth sailed British Steel westabout against the prevailing winds in 1970-71, a route almost nobody had attempted. He had begun the 1968 Golden Globe with no sailing experience and retired at East London that September.
  12. - SYND 10-2-74 LEADERS OF THE ROUND THE WORLD YACHT RACE IN HARBOUR. Leaders of the first Whitbread Round the World Race in harbour, filmed 10 February 1974. The early Whitbread ran with mixed sizes of boat before one-design and box-rule classes arrived. The Whitbread 60 came in from 1993.
  13. - RR7736A YACHTING ROUND-THE-WORLD RACE. A fleet of fifteen yachts leaves England on the first leg of a round-the-world race, filmed 12 September 1977, facing eight months and 27,000 miles with stops at Cape Town, Auckland and Rio de Janeiro. This is the second Whitbread Round the World Race, begun in 1973 by the brewer with the Royal Naval Sailing Association. Conny van Rietschoten won it in Flyer and won again in 1981-82, the only skipper to take the race twice.
  14. - SYND 15 5 79 ROUND THE WORLD YACHTMAN RETURNS TO BUENOS AIRES HARBOUR. A round-the-world yachtsman returns to Buenos Aires harbour, filmed 15 May 1979. South American ports were regular stopovers on the pre-Panama routes and on the Whitbread's Rio leg. Crowds meet the boat on the quay.
  15. - Condor, Holland 80 owned by Robert Bell, Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. Yacht racing to Nassau, Bahamas. Every round the world record carries a qualifier and they multiply endlessly: solo or crewed, non-stop or staged, assisted or unassisted, by the three great capes or through the Panama Canal. A claim without its qualifier describes a different record from the one that was set.
  16. - Gipsy Moth IV at Greenwich in 1986. The ketch in her dry berth at Greenwich, photographed in 1986, nineteen years after Chichester's return. She sat there in the open for close to forty years, and the exposure did the hull considerable damage.
  17. - USA: ROUND-THE-WORLD YACHT RACE: New York. A round-the-world race stopover in New York, filmed 14 September 1992. New York has been a start or finish port for several editions of the race. The 1993 edition introduced the Whitbread 60 one-design hull.
  18. - Gipsy Moth IV at Greenwich Pier, 1994. Chichester's ketch in her concrete berth beside Greenwich Pier in 1994. She was later removed, restored, and sailed again, so that the boat is now a working vessel rather than a monument.
  19. - USA FOSSETT/BRANSON CATAMARAN ATLANTIC RECORD ATTEMPT. Steve Fossett and Richard Branson prepare a catamaran Atlantic record attempt, filmed by AP. Multihull record attempts run to a ratified course between the Ambrose Light and Lizard Point. The outright crewed multihull transatlantic mark went to Banque Populaire V under Pascal Bidegorry in 2009, 3d 15h 25m 48s at an average of 32.94 knots.
  20. - Gipsy Moth IV on display at Greenwich. Chichester's ketch preserved ashore at Greenwich in London. She was placed in a dry berth beside the Cutty Sark after the 1966 to 1967 voyage and stayed there for decades before being restored and returned to the water.
  21. - Legendary yachtsman's funeral. The funeral of Sir Peter Blake, filmed 16 December 2001, with his widow Lady Pippa Blake, New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and Ellen MacArthur among the mourners. Blake won the 1989-90 Whitbread on Steinlager 2 with a clean sweep of line, handicap and overall honours, and led Team New Zealand to America's Cup wins in 1995 and 2000. He was shot dead by pirates aboard the research vessel Seamaster near Macapa, Brazil on 5 December 2001, aged fifty-three, and the attackers were convicted and imprisoned.
  22. - Route of the 1968 Golden Globe Race. A map of the course of the first Golden Globe Race, which ran from British ports round the world by the three great capes and back. Nine boats started in 1968 and one finished.
  23. - Golden Globe Race positions, 31 October. A plot of the fleet's reported positions during the 1968 Golden Globe Race. Position reports in that race were made by radio and by passing ships, and one competitor, Donald Crowhurst, falsified his.
  24. - Golden Globe Race positions, 19 January. A plot of the 1968 to 1969 Golden Globe fleet's reported positions in January 1969. Of nine starters, Robin Knox-Johnston alone completed the course, finishing at Falmouth in April 1969.
  25. - Condor of Bermuda at Kangaroo Point. The maxi yacht photographed at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane, Australia, in 2007. She was built for Bob Bell and raced as Heath's Condor in the 1977 to 1978 Whitbread Round the World Race, then was renamed Condor of Bermuda and campaigned until about 1983. A polished mahogany hull, she was known to her crews as the Grand Piano.
  26. - Condor Taking the Heat in Asia. Condor of Bermuda in Thailand in 2009. Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was the first woman to sail single-handed around the world, crossing her outbound track on 20 March 1978 by the Panama route. Naomi James was the first via Cape Horn, and Kay Cottee the first non-stop and unassisted in 1988.
  27. - Green plaque to Francis Chichester in St James's. The City of Westminster plaque marking Chichester's London address in St James's Place. In 1966 and 1967 he sailed Gipsy Moth IV from Plymouth to Sydney and back by way of Cape Horn, the first solo circumnavigation west to east by way of the great capes, with one stop.
  28. - Flotte patrimoniale du Musée Maritime de La Rochelle. Photographed as preserved, 2010. Every round the world record carries a qualifier and they multiply endlessly: solo or crewed, non-stop or staged, assisted or unassisted, by the three great capes or through the Panama Canal. A claim without its qualifier describes a different record from the one that was set.
  29. - Volvo Ocean Race - Life on board !!. Life aboard during the Volvo Ocean Race, filmed by a follower of the event. Crews live wet, eat freeze-dried food and sleep in shifts on canvas bunks. The race was called the Volvo Ocean Race from 2001 to 2019.
  30. - The best of Volvo Ocean Race. A compiled selection of Volvo Ocean Race footage. The Volvo Open 70 of this period was a canting-keel machine sailed by eleven crew. Franck Cammas won the 2011-12 edition in Groupama 4.
  31. - The Navigators' Memorial at Westminster Abbey. The Great Cloisters at Westminster Abbey, which house the Navigators' Memorial. The memorial commemorates Francis Drake, James Cook and Francis Chichester together, and was carved by Peter Foster, Eric Fraser and Arthur Ayres in 1979.
  32. - Round the world yacht on which two sailors were injured, reaches port. A round-the-world yacht on which two sailors were injured reaches port, filmed by AP. Crewed round-the-world racing carries injury risk from the loads on gear and from motion below decks. Medical evacuation from mid-ocean is often impossible.
  33. - Model of Gipsy Moth IV at Buckler's Hard. A model of Chichester's ketch at the Buckler's Hard Maritime Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, photographed in 2014. Gipsy Moth IV was 53 feet long and was widely reported by her own skipper as difficult to handle singlehanded.
  34. - Route du Rhum competitors, 2014. Skippers photographed at the 2014 Route du Rhum in Saint-Malo, among them Jean-Paul Froc and Benjamin Hardouin. The Route du Rhum is a singlehanded transatlantic race from Saint-Malo to Guadeloupe, run every four years since 1978.
  35. - Route du Rhum skippers with Robin Knox-Johnston. The 2014 Route du Rhum fleet's skippers, including Robin Knox-Johnston, Bob Escoffier, Andrea Mura, Ricardo Diniz and Ari Huusela. Knox-Johnston, who in 1969 became the first person to sail round the world solo and non-stop, was 75 when he raced this edition.
  36. - 9 St James's Place, Francis Chichester's London house. The Grade II listed house in the City of Westminster where Chichester lived, photographed in September 2016. He was knighted at Greenwich in July 1967 on his return from the Gipsy Moth IV voyage, with the sword Elizabeth I had used on Francis Drake.
  37. - Southern Ocean Heritage | Volvo Ocean Race. The Ocean Race looks back at its Southern Ocean legs. The race has crossed the Southern Ocean in most editions since 1973, though some later routes avoided the deepest south. Steinlager 2 won every leg in the maxi division in 1989-90 under Peter Blake.
  38. - Joshua Slocum monument at Fairhaven. The monument in the old village of Oxford in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, marks where Slocum rebuilt and launched the sloop Spray, and where he returned her on 3 July 1898. He was the first person to sail around the world singlehanded, a voyage of 1895 to 1898. Slocum sailed from Vineyard Haven in November 1909 and was never seen again.
  39. - Francis Chichester's grave at Shirwell. The grave of Sir Francis Chichester in the churchyard of St Peter's at Shirwell in Devon. He died in 1972, five years after completing the first solo west to east circumnavigation by the great capes.
  40. - The Old Rectory at Shirwell, Devon. The former rectory at Shirwell in Devon, where Francis Chichester was born in 1901. He was a record-breaking aviator before he was a sailor, flying solo from England to Australia in 1929.
  41. - Chichester memorial at St Peter's, Shirwell. The memorial to Sir Francis Chichester in the churchyard at Shirwell in Devon. His 1966 to 1967 voyage in Gipsy Moth IV took 226 days of sailing with a single stop at Sydney.
  42. - Suhaili at Gosport. Robin Knox-Johnston's ketch photographed at Gosport in the United Kingdom in 2018. In Suhaili he won the 1968 to 1969 Golden Globe Race, taking 312 days and becoming the first person to sail around the world solo and non-stop. He was the only one of nine starters to finish.
  43. - Golden Globe Race 2018 Les Sables D'olonne. Amateur footage of the 2018 Golden Globe Race at Les Sables-d'Olonne. Crowds on the channel walls are a fixture of departures from this port. The fleet motors out through the channel before making sail.
  44. - The Voyage Of Madmen #trailer - Golden Globe Race 2018. A trailer tied to the 2018 Golden Globe Race, referencing Peter Nichols's account of the original 1968 event. That first race offered the Golden Globe Trophy for the first non-stop solo circumnavigation and 5,000 pounds for the fastest. Nine sailors started and only Robin Knox-Johnston finished.
  45. - Golden Globe Race 2018 - Competitor Presentation in Falmouth. Competitor presentations for the 2018 Golden Globe Race at Falmouth. Falmouth is where Robin Knox-Johnston left in Suhaili on 14 June 1968 and returned on 22 April 1969 after 312 days. The revived race deliberately echoes the original's ports and equipment.
  46. - Les Sables-d'Olonne : à 2 minutes du départ de la Golden Globe Race 2018. French regional television counts down the last two minutes before the 2018 Golden Globe Race start at Les Sables-d'Olonne. The port is the home of the Vendee Globe and has become the centre of French solo ocean racing. The race started on 1 July 2018.
  47. - Les Sables-d'Olonne : Voir ou revoir le départ de la Golden Globe Race 2018. The full French television broadcast of the 2018 Golden Globe Race start from Les Sables-d'Olonne. Eighteen boats crossed the line for a non-stop solo circumnavigation without satellite navigation. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede won in Matmut, finishing 29 January 2019.
  48. - Francesco Cappelletti about the Golden Globe Race 2018. Francesco Cappelletti talks about entering the 2018 Golden Globe Race. Eighteen entrants from thirteen nations started on 1 July 2018 from Les Sables-d'Olonne. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede won in the Rustler 36 Matmut, finishing on 29 January 2019.
  49. - Chichester medal in the British Museum. A commemorative medal marking Francis Chichester's voyage, held in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. The 1967 return to Plymouth drew a crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands and was marked with medals, stamps and a knighthood.
  50. - Whitbread Race, OGR & Royal Nomuka Yacht Club on Sailing Illustrated blog. A discussion of the Whitbread race and the Ocean Globe Race revival on a sailing programme. The Whitbread began in 1973 with the Royal Naval Sailing Association and ran under that name until 2001. The Netherlands has the most wins with three.
  51. - Videoblog Roladas. Ocean Globe Race 2023, ¡vuelve la Whitbread vintage!. A Spanish-language video blog on the Ocean Globe Race 2023 and the return of the Whitbread format. Spanish and Latin American crews have competed in round-the-world racing since the first Whitbread, which Ramon Carlin of Mexico won in 1973-74. The race sails with stops rather than non-stop.
  52. - Ocean Globe Race with Don McIntyre. The Whitbread is back ! :). Don McIntyre explains the Ocean Globe Race and the return of the Whitbread format. McIntyre founded the revived Golden Globe Race with the same retro principle. Boats must be designs from before 1988 with no modern navigation aids.
  53. - Translated parteciperà alla Ocean Globe Race 2023. An Italian entry announces for the 2023 Ocean Globe Race. The retro rules put crews back on paper charts, sextants and single sideband radio. Italy has strong offshore and America's Cup programmes but no Whitbread win.
  54. - Gipsy Moth IV on the Beaulieu River 2007. Gipsy Moth IV lies on the Beaulieu River in June 2007 as she is presented to the United Kingdom Sailing Academy, after being rescued from decay at Greenwich and given a full refit. Ellen MacArthur was aboard when this footage was taken. Francis Chichester sailed her single-handed around the world with one stop, at Sydney, in 1966 and 1967.
  55. - Minnehaha (poupe), voilier de Kirsten Neuschäfer, Golden Globe Race 2022. Photographed 2022. Kirsten Neuschäfer won the 2022-23 Golden Globe Race in Minnehaha, a Cape George 36 built at Port Townsend, Washington and launched in 1988, which she refitted over a year in Prince Edward Island. She is the first woman to win the Golden Globe since it began in 1968, the first woman to win any round the world race by the three great capes whether solo or crewed, and the first South African to win a round the world event.
  56. - Minnehaha, voilier de Kirsten Neuschäfer, Golden Globe Race 2022. Photographed 2022. During the race she rescued Tapio Lehtinen after his boat sank and he had been adrift over 24 hours in the southern Indian Ocean.
  57. - Schooner 'Diva'. ', 2022. Les Sables-d'Olonne on the French Atlantic coast is the start and finish of the Vendée Globe and of the revived Golden Globe Race. The channel out of the harbour, lined with crowds at every departure, is the most photographed piece of water in solo ocean racing.
  58. - Memorial to Drake, Cook and Chichester. A memorial in coloured marble with a Portland stone surround commemorating Francis Drake, James Cook and Francis Chichester, designed and carved by Peter Foster, Eric Fraser and Arthur Ayres and dated 1979. Drake's circumnavigation of 1577 to 1580 was the second by any expedition; Chichester's of 1966 to 1967 was the first solo west to east by the great capes.
  59. - Start of the 2022 Golden Globe Race. Eight of the sixteen competitors set off at the start of the singlehanded non-stop Golden Globe Race in 2022. The race is sailed in production boats of a 1968 type, without satellite navigation or modern electronics, and Kirsten Neuschäfer won it.
  60. - GGR Skipper Stories – Episode 08 - Elliott Smith | McIntyre Golden Globe Race 2022/23. A Golden Globe Race skipper interview with Elliott Smith recorded for the 2022 edition. The race requires a qualifying solo passage and bars satellite navigation, weather routing and outside assistance. Entrants sail boats designed before 1988.
  61. - Start of the Golden Globe Race 2022 in les Sables d'Olonne (English). The full start of the 2022-23 Golden Globe Race from Les Sables-d'Olonne on 4 September 2022. Kirsten Neuschafer won that edition in Minnehaha, a Cape George 36 built at Port Townsend, Washington and launched in 1988, which she refitted over a year in Prince Edward Island. Her exact finish date and elapsed time are not established here.
  62. - Solo Sailor Elliott Smith: Onboard footage from LSO to Lanzarote. Onboard footage from Golden Globe Race entrant Elliott Smith between Les Sables-d'Olonne and Lanzarote. Competitors film themselves because the rules bar any support boat or media crew. What survives of a Golden Globe voyage is what the sailor shot alone.
  63. - Gipsy Moth IV salutes The Ocean Race fleet. The restored ketch salutes competitors in The Ocean Race at Scheveningen on 15 June 2023. Chichester sailed her round the world in 1966 and 1967, and after restoration she went back to sea rather than back on display.
  64. - Kirsten Neuschafer at Les Sables d'Olonne. Photographed at Les Sables d'Olonne on 29 April 2023 after winning the 2022 to 2023 Golden Globe Race in the Cape George 36 Minnehaha. She is the first woman to win any round-the-world race by the three great capes, and the first South African to win a round-the-world event.
  65. - Kirsten Neuschafer after the Golden Globe Race. The South African sailor after her 2023 victory, sailed solo and without electronic assistance. During the race she rescued the Finnish competitor Tapio Lehtinen, whose boat sank in the southern Indian Ocean and who had been adrift for more than 24 hours.
  66. - Kirsten Neuschafer greeted by Sam Davies. Sam Davies came to greet Neuschäfer after her victory in the 2022 Golden Globe Race. Neuschäfer received the Rod Stephens Seamanship Trophy and the Ocean Cruising Club's Seamanship Award in January 2023 for the Lehtinen rescue.
  67. - Neuschafer and Sam Davies after the win. Sam Davies with Kirsten Neuschäfer following the 2022 Golden Globe Race. Neuschäfer sailed the Cape George 36 Minnehaha, a 36 foot production cruising boat, over 235 days at sea.
  68. - Kirsten Neuschafer three days after finishing. Photographed at Les Sables d'Olonne on 30 April 2023, three days after completing her solo, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigation. She was the first woman to win a round-the-world race by the three great capes, in any format.
  69. - Call of the Ocean. A long film from Tapio Lehtinen's own channel about ocean sailing. Lehtinen's boat sank during the 2022-23 Golden Globe Race and he spent over twenty-four hours adrift in the southern Indian Ocean before Kirsten Neuschafer reached him. She received the Rod Stephens Seamanship Trophy and the Ocean Cruising Club's Seamanship Award in January 2023 for the rescue.
  70. - Golden Globe Race 2022 Trailer. The official trailer for the 2022-23 Golden Globe Race, won by Kirsten Neuschafer of South Africa in the Cape George 36 Minnehaha. She became the first woman to win the Golden Globe Race since it began in 1968, and the first woman to win any round-the-world race by the three great capes, solo or crewed, non-stop or staged. She was also the first South African sailor to win a round-the-world event.
  71. - Neptune race over the finish line having completed McIntyre Ocean Globe 2023. Neptune crosses the finish line to complete the 2023 Ocean Globe Race. Don McIntyre founded the Ocean Globe Race as he had founded the revived Golden Globe. The retro format bars GPS, satellite communications and modern materials.
  72. - Long time IRC leader Triana arrive in Cowes completing their epic circumnavigation. Triana arrives at Cowes to complete the 2023 Ocean Globe Race after leading on IRC handicap for much of the course. The Ocean Globe Race sails the old Whitbread route with stops, in boats designed before 1988. Handicap and line honours are separate contests in the same fleet.
  73. - Kirsten Neuschafer at the Laureus Awards, 2024. The South African sailor on the red carpet in Madrid, nominated for Action Sportsperson of the Year at the 25th Laureus World Sports Awards. She won the 2022 to 2023 Golden Globe Race after 235 days at sea using only technology available in 1968.
  74. - The Golden Globe Race 2026 - Partner With Us. A partnership call for the 2026 Golden Globe Race. The race is deliberately low-budget by comparison with the Vendee Globe, which is its point. Entrants sail production boats of 32 to 36 ft designed before 1988.
  75. - Sailing Legends: Pen Duick VI's Powerful moment in the Ocean Globe Race 2023. A second angle on Pen Duick VI's close manoeuvre in the 2023 Ocean Globe Race. Eric Tabarly's family acquired the original gaff cutter Pen Duick in 1938 and he built successors of the same name. Pen duick is Breton for coal tit.
  76. - The Ocean Globe Race 2027 - Partner With Us. A partnership call for the 2027 Ocean Globe Race. The event runs the original Whitbread course in period boats with period equipment. It exists to recover a style of ocean racing that satellite navigation ended.
  77. - De Gipsy Moth IV uit 1967 bij Sail Amsterdam 2025. Photographed 2025. Gipsy Moth IV carried Francis Chichester round the world from west to east by the great capes in 1966 and 1967, with a single stop at Sydney. She was preserved at Greenwich alongside Cutty Sark.
  78. - Gipsy Moth IV dressed overall at Scheveningen. The ketch's rigging and boom cover in the foreground with a pilot vessel behind, at Scheveningen in 2023. Her name is carried on the sail cover; she is the boat Francis Chichester sailed round the world by the great capes in 1966 and 1967.
  79. - The RACE will be back again - How many will make the start line - One year to go Golden Globe 2026. The Golden Globe Race announces its next edition and counts the likely starters. Fields shrink between entry and the start line because qualifying is demanding and boats are old. Five of eighteen finished the 2018 edition.
  80. - Cape Horn Fury! Pen Duick VI Surfs 28 Knots in 60 Knot Storm – Marie Tabarly’s Grit & Glory #OGR2023. Pen Duick VI surfs at 28 knots in a 60-knot storm near Cape Horn during the 2023 Ocean Globe Race, skippered by Marie Tabarly. The boat was built for Eric Tabarly, who won the single-handed transatlantic race in 1964 in Pen Duick II and again in 1976 in Pen Duick VI. Tabarly was swept overboard by a spar in the Irish Sea on the night of 12-13 June 1998 and drowned.
  81. - Sailing Legends Pen Duick VI's Powerful moment avoid collision by skipper Marie Tabarly #ogr2023. Marie Tabarly avoids a collision aboard Pen Duick VI in the 2023 Ocean Globe Race. The Ocean Globe Race revives the original Whitbread format with pre-1988 boats and no modern electronics. Pen Duick VI was designed for the 1973 Whitbread.
  82. - He calls the Golden Globe Race “selfish”…So why is he risking everything to do it?. A long interview with a Golden Globe Race entrant on why he is attempting a race he calls selfish. Solo non-stop racing by the three great capes takes most competitors well over 200 days. The 2018 edition started with eighteen entrants from thirteen nations and only five finished.
  83. - GGR 2026 Fleet Down to 23, French Sailor Arsène Ledertheil Withdraws from the Golden Globe Race. The 2026 Golden Globe Race fleet drops to twenty-three as the French sailor Arsene Ledertheil withdraws. Attrition begins long before the start in a race that demands a qualifying solo passage. The race starts and finishes at Les Sables-d'Olonne.
  84. - New Mast, Hydrogenerator & Sails Test, Gunnar Charges Toward the #GGR2026 Start Line!. A Golden Globe Race entrant tests a new mast, hydrogenerator and sails before the start. Entrants must prepare boats designed before 1988 to survive eight months at sea without outside assistance. Power generation without an engine is one of the harder problems the rules create.
  85. - Just another day at the office 🤪 | The Ocean Race. A short clip of routine work aboard an IMOCA during The Ocean Race. Sail changes on a foiling 60 ft monohull are the heaviest physical work in the sport. Crews on the round-the-world editions number four plus an onboard reporter.
  86. - INSIDE The New Foiling Machines: Malizia 4 & DMG MORI GLOBAL ONE Revealed. A look inside the new IMOCA 60s Malizia 4 and DMG MORI GLOBAL ONE. The class rule is open within measurement limits, so designers differ sharply on hull shape and foil geometry. Beam is capped at 5.85 m and draft at 4.5 m.
  87. - Sailing or Trucking? The Race to Les Sables Is ON! 🚛⛵ | GGR 2026. Golden Globe Race boats travel overland to Les Sables-d'Olonne for the start. Getting a 36 ft boat to the start line is its own logistical exercise for a fleet drawn from many countries. The race has started from Les Sables-d'Olonne since the revival in 2018.
  88. - Meet The Ocean Race Atlantic Fleet! ⛵⚡. An introduction to The Ocean Race Atlantic fleet. The race has used mixed sizes, the Whitbread 60, the Volvo Open 70, the Volvo Ocean 65 and now the IMOCA 60. The VO65 raced alongside the IMOCA from 2023.
  89. - Meet DMG MORI Sailing Team | The Ocean Race Atlantic. An introduction to the DMG MORI Sailing Team for The Ocean Race Atlantic. Japanese and German programmes have both entered the IMOCA class in recent years. The class is no longer exclusively French.
  90. - How Do GGR Sailors Navigate Without GPS? Sextant Explained 🎁 Watch until the end for surprise!. The Golden Globe Race explains how its competitors navigate by sextant with no GPS. The revived race, founded by Don McIntyre, restricts entrants to boats of 32 to 36 ft designed before 1988 and bars modern technology except emergency safety equipment such as EPIRBs and AIS. Removing satellite navigation is the cleanest demonstration of what the electronics layer actually changed.
  91. - Under a new name and hungrier than ever: United By The Ocean is back on the circuit!. A team returns to The Ocean Race circuit under a new name. Sponsorship turnover renames boats and teams between editions, which makes the race's history hard to follow by boat name alone. Hull identity persists where the name does not.
  92. - First Italian to win The Ocean Race Skippers US Team in Atlantic Sprint!. An Italian skipper leads a United States team in The Ocean Race Atlantic. Crews in the race have been international since the first Whitbread. Ramon Carlin of Mexico won the inaugural 1973-74 edition.
  93. - What Are Sailors Saying Before Leaving New York? | The Ocean Race Atlantic. Sailors talk before leaving New York on The Ocean Race Atlantic. Pre-start interviews on the dock are the last time crews speak before days offshore. The fleet crosses to Europe.
  94. - LIVE DEPARTURE from New York City | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The full live departure of The Ocean Race Atlantic from New York City. The Ocean Race began in 1973 as the Whitbread Round the World Race and took its present name in 2019. Its round-the-world editions are scheduled for 2027, starting at Alicante, and 2031, both in IMOCA 60s.
  95. - L'émission quotidienne : Jour de course EN DIRECT | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The French daily programme for The Ocean Race Atlantic race day one. French-language coverage reflects the composition of the IMOCA fleet. The class races the Vendee Globe, the Route du Rhum, the Transat Jacques Vabre and The Ocean Race.
  96. - DÉPART EN DIRECT | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The French-language live start broadcast of The Ocean Race Atlantic. The race carries parallel French and English coverage because much of the fleet and most of the class is French. IMOCA 60 hulls run 59 to 60 ft with a maximum draft of 4.5 m.
  97. - OnBoard Live Show: Race Start Day | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The Ocean Race onboard live show on race start day. Start day coverage runs from the dock out to the first offshore miles. The Ocean Race Atlantic runs New York to Europe.
  98. - LIVE START | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The live start of The Ocean Race Atlantic. The IMOCA 60 was established in 1991 by the International Monohull Open Class Association as an open rule controlled by measurement. Canting keels came into the class in 1998 and one-design masts, keel fins and hydrofoils in 2013.
  99. - Race Start Highlights | The Ocean Race Atlantic. Start highlights from The Ocean Race Atlantic. A transatlantic sprint is a short-format event alongside the full round-the-world editions. Every IMOCA must pass a 90 or 180 degree self-righting test, a rule added after early-class incidents.
  100. - L'émission quotidienne : Jour de course 2 EN DIRECT | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The French daily programme for The Ocean Race Atlantic race day two. Daily shows carry position reports, weather routing analysis and calls to the boats. Position reporting at fixed intervals is standard in offshore racing.
  101. - OnBoard Live Show: Day 2 | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The Ocean Race onboard live show for race day two. Live shows cut between shore studio and satellite feeds from the boats. Onboard cameras are the only visual record once the fleet is offshore.
  102. - Day 2 Race Highlights | The Ocean Race Atlantic. Day two race highlights from The Ocean Race Atlantic. Daily highlight packages are assembled from onboard reporter footage sent by satellite. Onboard reporters have been a fixture of the race since the Volvo era.
  103. - How much faster can they go? | The Ocean Race Atlantic. A short piece on how much faster IMOCA 60s can still go. Foils transformed the class's downwind and reaching speeds after they were permitted in 2013. Charlie Dalin set the Vendee Globe record of 64d 19h 23m in Macif Sante Prevoyance in the 2024-25 edition.
  104. - OnBoard Live Show: Race Day 3 | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The Ocean Race onboard live show for race day three. The format was developed for the Volvo Ocean Race, which pioneered dedicated media crew aboard racing yachts. Onboard reporters are non-sailing crew who may not touch the running of the boat.
  105. - L'émission quotidienne : Jour de course 3 EN DIRECT | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The French daily programme for The Ocean Race Atlantic race day three. IMOCA 60s carry up to four ballast tanks with size limits and a canting keel tilting up to 38 degrees each side. Those systems are what let a 60 ft monohull be sailed hard by a small crew.
  106. - L'émission quotidienne : Jour de course 4 EN DIRECT | The Ocean Race Atlantic. The French daily programme for The Ocean Race Atlantic race day four. The Ocean Race has run under three names since 1973: Whitbread, Volvo Ocean Race and The Ocean Race. Conny van Rietschoten is the only skipper to have won it twice.
  107. - Day 3 Race Highlights | The Ocean Race Atlantic. Day three race highlights from The Ocean Race Atlantic. The fleet sails IMOCA 60s, the same class used in the Vendee Globe. Charlie Enright's 11th Hour Racing Team won the 2023 round-the-world edition in the class.
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