And they’re off! On the afternoon of Sunday 6th September, fifteen skippers left the Vendee Globe Pontoons in Les Sables d’Olonne, with one more soon to follow after a last…
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Mad dash to the start line: How Swedish solo skipper Pär Nyman got Golden Globe Race-ready in under a year
‘I keep pinching myself in the arm to make sure I’m not dreaming,’ says Swedish solo skipper Pär Nyman. Days out from setting off to sail around the world solo,…
‘The joy is the journey’: How Golden Globe Race skipper Andrea Lodolo went from private equity to solo sailing
Andrea Lodolo is two weeks out from setting off to sail around the world solo, nonstop, and unassisted for the Golden Globe Race. Days out from the start, he reports,…
‘Not in it for the spiritual experience,’ says Guy deBoer ahead of the Golden Globe Race, ‘I’m a true competitor’
Guy deBoer phones in from the doldrums in the middle of the Atlantic, where La Niña is ‘causing hell’ with the Bermuda and Azores high pressure systems. He set off…
What if the Truman Show was set on the High Seas? The new ‘GGR Window’ will offer 24/7 one-way access to the solo round-the-world adventure
In the latest from the Golden Globe Race, a livestreamed ‘GGR Window’ is set to give a voyeuristic spin to the gruelling voyage. In a first for solo around-the-world racing,…
Celtic Sea dash sees Yachting Monthly Triangle fleet into Kinsale
The Yachting Monthly Celtic Triangle Race is underway, with the fleet completing the first 200-mile leg from Falmouth to Kinsale
How a retro race is helping Gunnar Christensen fall back in love with sailing
‘All I’ve done my whole life, is work in the service of others on their boats,’ says skipper Gunnar Christensen. Now in his late 50s, ‘I’ve realised I’ve never done…
‘We were battered by Force 7 winds for 24 hours’: The Yachting Monthly Celtic Triangle Race
The Yachting Monthly Celtic Triangle is a single- or double-handed offshore race from Falmouth to Kinsale (Eire) to Treguier (Brittany) and back to Falmouth. For me it was a new…
The Med-made sailor with a mission to help disabled children: Golden Globe Race skipper Dr. Selim Yalcin in his own words
Dr. Selim Yalcin writes for Yachting Monthly: I grew up in an Istanbul that lived by, on, and of the water. From childhood I was in love with the sea,…
From shearing sheep to sailing around the world solo: Inside the wondrous world of Golden Globe Race skipper Etienne Messikommer
Climber-sailor-storyteller Etienne Messikommer wears a red, Cousteau-style hat. He appears in onboard interviews surrounded by splashes of colour and well-loved paperbacks. His speech is marked by a rare sense of…