Are you watching??
The 2018 Golden Globe Race is a remarkable race of endurance, tactic, and seamanship.
Key fact is that it's a 'retro race', so only technology available at the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in 1968
can be used. For example, windvanes for steering.
That being said, we spectators can participate in modern ways... Check out the yellowbrick livetracker, overlay with windy, read the skipper's tweets or listen to weekly calls, and watch Race Organizer Don McIntyre's fascinating commentary videos.
It makes for a very exciting 'low-tech' race!
So far, unfortunately, the only gear failures that have forced race retirement are failures of the self steering windvanes. One facebook comment from last week described the race as "WINDVANE HELL". No doubt the race is putting windvane self steering in the spotlight for this type of extreme offshore adventuring.
The drama will continue as the accomplished Skippers, their boats, and of course, their only companions... their windvanes, continue their journey in the Southern Ocean.
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SKIPPER
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BOAT TYPE
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WINDVANE TYPE
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WINDVANE STATUS
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1 |
Jean Luc Van Den Heede
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Rustler 36 |
Hydrovane (part Sp) |
OK |
2 |
Mark Slats |
Rustler 36 |
Aries |
OK |
3 |
Gregor McGuckin |
Biscay 36 |
Hydrovane |
OK |
4 |
Abhilash Tomy |
Suhaili Replica |
Windpilot (Sp) |
OK - Issue, fixed |
5 |
Uku Randmaa |
Rustler 36 |
Hydrovane |
OK |
6 |
Susie Goodall |
Rustler 36 |
Monitor |
OK |
7 |
Istvan Kopar |
Tradewind 35 |
Windpilot (Sp) |
Issues - set up? |
8 |
Tapio Lehtinen |
Gaia 36 |
Windpilot |
OK |
9 |
Igor Zaretskiy |
Endurance 35 |
Windpilot (Sp) |
OK |
10 |
Mark Sinclair (soon C) |
Lello 34 |
Aries |
OK |
C |
Loic Lepage |
Nicholson 32 |
Hydrovane |
OK |
R |
Francesco Cappelletti |
Endurance 35 |
Beaufort Lynx |
Broken Welds |
R |
Are Wiig |
OE 32 |
Monitor |
Broken Couplings |
R |
Philippe Peche |
Rustler 36 |
Beaufort Lynx |
Broken Welds |
R |
Antoine Cousot |
Biscay 36 |
Windpilot (Sp) |
Issues |
R |
Nabil Amra |
Biscay 36 |
Beaufort Lynx |
Broken Welds |
R |
Kevin Farebrother |
Tradewind 35 |
Hydrovane (part Sp) |
OK |
R |
Ertan Beskardes |
Rustler 36 |
Hydrovane |
OK |
Leaderboard @ Sep 13, 2018, C - Chichester Class, R - Retired, Sp - Sponsored unit
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