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Alicante, spain.

7 January 2023 - Ocean Live Park Opening 8 January 2023 - In-Port Race 12 & 13 January 2023 - Pro-Am Sailing 15 January 2023 - Leg Start

Opening hours

Every day from 10am to 8pm

Thursday 12 from 10am to 9pm

Friday 13 & Saturdays 7-14 from 10am to 10pm

20 January 2023 - Ocean Live Park Opening 22 January 2023 - ETA of the boats 23 January 2023 - The Ocean Race Summit 24 January 2023 - Prize Giving Ceremony 25 January 2023 - Leg Start

Friday 20 January from 4.00pm to 11.30pm

Saturday 21 January from 11.00am to 11.30pm

Sunday 22 January from 11.00am to 11.30pm

Monday 23 January from 11.00am to 10.30pm

Tuesday 24 January from 11.00am to 10.30pm

Wednesday 25 January from 11.00am to 8.00pm

Cape Town, South Africa

8 February 2023 - Ocean Live Park Opening 9 February 2023 - ETA of the boats 22 & 23 February 2023 - Pro-Am Sailing 24 February 2023 - In-Port Race & Awards Night 26 February 2023 - Leg Start

Every day from 10am to 7pm

Itajaí, Brazil

29 March 2023 - Ocean Live Park Opening 1 April 2023 - ETA of the boats 19 April 2023 - The Ocean Race Summit 19 & 20 April 2023 - Pro-Am Sailing 21 April 2023 - In-Port Race & Awards Night 23 April 2023 - Leg Start

29 March - 6pm to 11pm

Monday to Friday - 2pm to 11pm

Weekends & public holidays (7 & 21 April) - 11am to 11pm

The Ocean Live Park will remain closed on the 10 - 11 - 17 - 18 April.

Newport, RI, USA

10 May 2023 - ETA of the boats 13 May 2023 - Ocean Live Park Opening 16 May 2023 - The Ocean Race Summit 17 & 18 May 2023 - Pro-Am Sailing 19 May 2023 - Awards Night 20 May 2023 - In-Port Race 21 May 2023 - Leg Start

Saturday 13: from 10am to 7pm

Sunday 14 May:  from 10am to 7:30 pm

From Monday 15 to Friday 19: from 11am to 7pm.

Saturday 20 May: from 10am to 7pm

Sunday 21 May: from 10am to 6pm

Aarhus, Denmark

29 May 2023 - Ocean Live Park Opening 30 May 2023 - ETA of the boats 1 June 2023 - The Ocean Race Summit 4 June 2023 - In-Port Race & Awards Night 5 & 6 June 2023 - Pro-Am Sailing 8 June 2023 - Leg Start

Every day from 10am to 8pm except:

29 May 2023: 10am to 11pm 4 June 2023: 10am to 11pm

Sustainability area opening hours:

29 May; 3-5 June from 10am to 5pm

30 May; 2-6-7-8 June from 10am to 3pm

Kiel, Germany (Fly-By)

8 June - Opening

9 June - Fly-by

10 June  

Every day from 10am to 7pm.

The Hague, The Netherlands

11 June 2023 - Ocean Live Park Opening & ETA of the boats 12 June 2023 - Awards Night 13 & 14 June 2023 - In-Port Race & Pro-Am Sailing 15 June 2023 - Leg Start

Sunday 11 June - from 12pm to 9pm

From Monday 12 to Thursday 15 - from 11am to 9pm

Genova, Italy, The Grand Finale

24 June 2023 - Ocean Live Park Opening  25 June 2023 - ETA of the boats 27 June 2023 - The Ocean Race Summit 28 & 29 June 2023 - Pro-Am Sailing 1 July 2023 - In-Port Race & Awards Night

Opening hours 

Saturday 24 June: from 10am to 10pm 

Sunday 25 June: from 10am to 11pm 

From Monday 26 June to  Thursday 29 June: from 10am to 9pm 

Friday 30 June: from 10am to 10pm 

Saturday 1 July: from 10am to 11pm 

Sunday 2 July: from 10am to 8pm 

July 1, 2023 - 4 PM CET

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11TH HOUR RACING TEAM WINS THE OCEAN RACE! FIRST US TEAM TO WIN IN 50-YEAR HISTORY

Genoa, Italy. Thursday, June 29, 2023

US offshore sailing outfit 11th Hour Racing Team has won The Ocean Race – the world’s longest and toughest team sporting event. The Newport, RI-based team is the first US-flagged entry to win The Ocean Race in its 50-year history.

In unprecedented scenes, the crew heard about their win via a satellite phone call from team CEO, Mark Towill, as they delivered their 60-foot IMOCA, Mālama, to Genoa. This followed a redress hearing by the World Sailing International Jury which awarded the team four points for the final leg following a no-fault collision just seventeen minutes into the start of the final stage of the round the world race, which forced them to return immediately to port and retire.

The four points of redress put 11th Hour Racing Team three points ahead of Team Holcim-PRB in second place, with Team Malizia in third, Biotherm in fourth place, and GUYOT environnement – Team Europe in fifth. 

Quotes from the team and sponsor 11th Hour Racing

Skipper Charlie Enright (USA) – only American Skipper to lead a US team to victory in the race’s 50-year history, commented, “ We’re immensely proud of the effort our team has put in, from top to bottom. I feel like it hasn’t really sunk in yet, and I don’t think it will until we hit the dock. We’re very excited and appreciative and can’t wait to be with everyone else.

“ One thing we like to pride ourselves on is never getting too high, never getting too low, and just working through everything. We say if you’re not winning, you’re learning, and this whole race, we’ve just tried to improve in every single area .”

Trimmer Francesca Clapcich (ITA) becomes the first Italian to win The Ocean Race, sailing home to Genoa. “ It feels pretty surreal still – it hasn’t really sunk in yet. It’s been a lifetime dream to firstly be part of the race, and now to win the race, and so it feels very special. The first time for an American team and the first time an Italian sailor has won the race – it means a lot to me – I’m Italian, and I live in the US – it’s both of my worlds colliding together.

“This race is all about the people – the team that Charlie and Mark have been able to put together is just incredible, and that’s a large part of the success of this team. Everything comes from great leadership, and that is what Charlie has shown all the way around, and even in the really hard moments, he’s been able to keep the team together, and get them working harder and better to achieve our overall goal. ”

Navigator Simon Fisher is celebrating a second Ocean Race win, having taken the top spot on the podium back in the 2014-15 edition of the race. “ The circumstances of this win are a little bizarre, but the news coming in this morning was a huge relief, and it is slowly sinking in that we have won the race.

“ Waking up this morning – we were all preparing ourselves for the decision, and the whole redress situation really hit home for us all. I have felt from the outset that as a team, we had done everything we could have done, everything in the right way on the race course, everything by the book in terms of what happened with the collision. It was always my belief that redress is destined for situations just like that, but honestly, you never know until you know, there is always a little bit of doubt. As much as I wanted to believe that the team would get the result we deserved, it was never a sure thing until the news was in. 

“ Charlie has done a great job under what can only be described as a mountain of pressure. He has kept a cool, calm head, and stayed objective, and this speaks volumes about his leadership.

“ I’ve done this race six times now, and it has consumed almost 20 years of my life. It’s nice at this stage of my career that I can be involved with a campaign that’s trying to do something more than ‘just’ be competitive and has a positive impact on the sport, the wider community, environment, people, and planet. That’s really important to me. Winning is important, and it is what we all strive for, but personally, for me, I hold a lot of value in winning the right way and doing things the right way. And so, to win The Ocean Race with 11th Hour Racing, a team like this, with such a great group of people and a positive mission, is really incredible.”

Trimmer Jack Bouttell (AUS/GBR) has back-to-back wins in The Ocean Race, having won in the 2017-18 edition. “ For me, it has been a childhood dream to do this race, this big adventure. And to have won it back-to-back is an insane and incredible feeling. The Ocean Race is an incredible project – it takes a lot from you, but it gives a lot as well. These moments are pretty unique, both to live and to experience, and that’s what attracts me back each time.

“ I think what clinched it for us was that we remained consistent throughout the race. We had some pretty difficult moments, and there were definitely times when it wasn’t perfect, but we got through them, and we were always learning and always improving. We kept consistency and motivation up and drove it hard all the way to the end. ”

Media Crew Member Amory Ross (USA), responsible for documenting the onboard story of the team, said, “ It was surreal to hear the news on the boat, but for those of us onboard, this is the culmination of a long project, and there have been a lot of really good people involved. The feeling amongst the group right now is one of pride.

“ Since the start of the campaign, back in September 2019, we have strived to go about everything we do the right way – both the sailing and race preparation, as well as our commitment to create change for ocean health. I’m incredibly proud to share  this moment with this group of people after going through so much together. ”

Co-Founder and President of title sponsor, 11th Hour Racing, Rob Macmillan said, “To be the first US-flagged team to win this storied race is an honor.

“I am so proud and grateful to every person on this team who made this dream a reality, showing outstanding resilience, integrity, and strength. More than ten years ago, we sat down with Mark and Charlie and created a list of ambitious goals – the first was to win The Ocean Race, and second on that list was to prove that performance and sustainability need to co-exist. So today is a win for the ocean, 11th Hour Racing, and the community of fans around the world. We all did it!”

Co-founder and CEO of 11th Hour Racing, Jeremy Pochman , said, “ Congratulations and a huge thank you to the entire 11th Hour Racing Team and to each and every person who worked relentlessly for the past four years to get to this historic result. 

“Today’s win is more than a sporting achievement; it’s also a win for the ocean. In 2019, we set off to win The Ocean Race. Today, we won, and how we won matters. The Race organizers, the competing teams, the fans, the other sponsors – our community – all have joined us in this journey, at this 11th hour, to restore the health of our ocean. Our journey doesn’t end here – our desire and determination to do more and to expand our work continues because when the ocean wins, we all win.”

Wendy Schmidt, co-founder of 11th Hour Racing, president and co-founder of the Schmidt Family Foundation and Schmidt Ocean Institute, said, “ This victory is an extraordinary accomplishment – but it’s about more than a team winning a race.

“We want to engage people in the bigger task of protecting our planet, of restoring ocean health because there is no life on earth without a healthy ocean. This race around the world is a symbol of that task, and we want everyone to be on our team. I am extraordinarily proud of the entire 11th Hour Racing Team and all they have overcome. They did more than sail around the world. They carried the message of sustainability, with the singular focus of restoring ocean health. Today, the real winner of this race is the ocean.” 

11th Hour Racing Team overall crew list for The Ocean Race 2022-23

Charlie Enright (USA) – Skipper Simon Fisher (GBR) – Navigator Jack Bouttell (AUS/GBR) – Trimmer Franck Cammas (FRA) – Trimmer Francesca Clapcich (ITA) – Trimmer Charlie Dalin (FRA) – Trimmer Damian Foxall (IRL) – Trimmer Justine Mettraux (FRA) – Trimmer Pierre Bouras (FRA) – Media Crew Member Amory Ross (USA) – Media Crew Member

The Ocean Race 2022-23 Final Overall Leaderboard

5 points = first; 4 points = second etc. Note: Leg 3 and Leg 5 scored double points

• 11th Hour Racing Team – 37 points (4+3+3+3+5+10+5+4**)
• Team Holcim – PRB – 34 points (5+5+5+4+0+8+4+3)
• Team Malizia – 32 points (3+2+4+5+4+6+3+5)
• Biotherm Racing – 23 points (2+4+2+2+3+4+2+4)
• GUYOT environnement – Team Europe – 2 points (1+1+0+0+0+0+1+0)*

* GUYOT penalized -1 point for exceeding the permitted number of sails

** Given redress

In-Port Race Leaderboard

5 points = first; 4 points = second etc.

• 11th Hour Racing Team – 24 points (4+4+5+4+3+4)
• Team Malizia – 21 points (5+3+3+5+2+3)
• Biotherm – 16 points (3+0+4+2+5+2)
• Holcim-PRB – 15 points (0+5+2+3+4+1)
• GUYOT environnement – team Europe 10 points (2+2+1+0+0+5)

The Ocean Race 2022-23 Route:

Leg 1: Alicante, Spain to Mindelo, Cabo Verde Leg 2: Cabo Verde to Cape Town, South Africa Leg 3: Cape Town, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil Leg 4: Itajaí, Brazil, to Newport, Rhode Island Leg 5: Newport, Rhode Island to Aarhus, Denmark Leg 6: Aarhus, Denmark to The Hague, The Netherlands (with a flyby past Kiel, Germany) Leg 7: The Hague, The Netherlands to Genoa, Italy

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The Ocean Race overall win down to jury decision after huge collision

• Helen Fretter
• June 19, 2023

A huge crash between 11th Hour Racing and Guyot-environnement leaves just three IMOCAs racing to The Ocean Race final finish in Genoa, and the result of the 27,000-mile race likely hanging on a request for redress

The overall winner of The Ocean Race is likely to be decided in the protest room after a huge collision between 11th Hour Racing and Guyot-environnement – Team Europe  shortly after the final leg start on Thursday, 15 June.

The crash occurred just 17 minutes into the start of Leg 7 of The Ocean Race, from The Hague to Genoa in Italy, in a port-starboard incident between the  11th Hour and Guyot-environnement IMOCA 60s . 11th Hour Racing had tacked onto starboard to approach the fourth mark of the course, and were racing in 2nd place.

The Ocean Race 2022-23 – 16 June 2023. Screen Capture of the moment when GUYOT environnement – Team Europe crashed with 11th Hour Racing Team 15 mins after the start of Leg 7.

Guyot-environnement , on port, did not see 11th Hour Racing  and did not alter course in time to avoid them. The result was a full-bore ’T-bone’, with Guyot’s bowsprit spearing into the side of 11th Hour’s cockpit, missing skipper Charlie Enright by inches, while Guyot’s bow smashed into the port aft quarter of the 11th Hour IMOCA  Malama , leaving a substantial hole.

Incredibly, no crew members were hurt, though all were deeply shocked by the incident.

Guyot’s skipper Benjamin Dutreux, clearly distraught, immediately offered his apologies to Enright. “I was helming, and I just saw their boat appear suddenly, and it was too late. The contact was unavoidable [at that point]. I take full responsibility. It is our fault.”

The French team also pledged to support the Americans in any way they could to get them back on the racecourse. In a painful twist of fate, Guyot had only returned to the race in Aarhus after a mid-Atlantic dismasting thanks to 11th Hour Racing offering up their spare mast.

A distraught Benjamin Dutreux, skipper of Guyot-environnement, speaks to 11th Hour Racing team manager Mark Towill after the collision at the start of Leg 7 of The Ocean Race

Ocean Race crash

11th Hour Racing navigator Simon Fisher explained said afterwards, “I’m lost for words. We tacked on our lay line, sailing on starboard for 20 or 30 seconds. Charlie was screaming ‘starboard’ at Guyot , and they did not respond.

“The net result is that they have put their boat firmly in the side of ours. The bowsprit went right through our boat and came out on the inside. We are really lucky that no one got hurt; Charlie was sitting so close to the hatch. Thankfully everyone is ok.

“Personally, I refuse to admit this [race] is over. We would rather try to win it on the water, but we need to find out what our options are, if this can be repaired, and what our redress implications are as a team now, and hopefully move forward.

“I have seen plenty of stuff in my time over six Ocean Races, this is not one of the better ones, but we have a fantastic team, and going into today, we were in a fantastic position, and that is thanks to the team we have. If I wanted to be with any group of people in adversity, it’s them.”

Skipper Charlie Enright echoed the sentiment, saying: “This race has a way of testing people in different ways – physically and mentally, and this is a test for our team. There is no team I would rather be on, that I would rather have with me. If anyone can figure this out, it is us.”

11th Hour Racing crew member Jack Boutell breaks down after a violent collision with Guyot-environment shortly after the start of Leg 7 in The Ocean race. Photo: Sailing Energy/11th Hour Racing

11th Hour set off for Genoa

11th Hour Racing  officially retired from the leg the following day, and lodged a request for redress. The request will be heard by the World Sailing International Jury, which under the Racing Rules of Sailing may compensate a boat when “a boat’s score or place in a race or series has been or may be, through no fault of her own, made significantly worse.”

Clearly 11th Hour Racing will be hoping to be awarded an average of their previous leg points in order to hold onto their lead.

The team also spent 72 hours working around the clock to effect a repair that would get the IMOCA back on the water.

This evening, Sunday 18 June, the race crew left The Hague in the hopes of delivering the boat some 2,500 miles to Genoa in time for the final in-port racing, which will take place on July 1.

Going into the start of Leg 7, 11th Hour Racing  was sitting at the top of the overall leaderboard, following a hat-trick of winning three legs in a row. Enright’s team had 33 points, with Holcim-PRB in 2nd on 31 points, and Team Malizia in 3rd with 27 points.

The Ocean Race 2022-23 – Leg 7, June 16, 2023. The 11th Hour Racing Team continues repairs to Malama after a collision during the start of Leg 7.

With both Guyot-environnement and 11th Hour Racing having retired from Leg 7, there are now just three IMOCAs racing to the race’s finale.

Meanwhile the current Leg 7 leader, Holcim-PRB , is sailing under a new skipper after Kevin Escoffier stood down in Aarhus following an incident at the previous stopover in Newport.

Escoffier confirmed that he would not longer be skipper for the remainder of The Ocean Race following what he described in a post as an ‘alleged incident’ (the line was later deleted). Details of the circumstances that led to Escoffier standing down have not been confirmed by either the team or The Ocean Race organisers.

It was later reported in both the German and French sailing media that allegations of harassment were made by a young woman at the US stopover. The incident is understood to be being handled by the French Sailing Federation (FFV), the French national sailing authority.

Benjamin Schwartz has been appointed Holcim-PRB skipper for the duration of the race. Schwartz was part of the technical support team for previous race winners Dongfeng , and is navigator on Spindrift/Sails for Change giant trimaran.

Millpond conditions mid-Channel for The Ocean Race fleet on Day 2 of Leg 7 with leg leaders Team Holcim – PRB trying to keep moving.

Race decided by redress?

For the race and its fans, this has been a devastating sequence of events. While Holcim-PRB was the stand-out team for the opening stages , and Malizia impressive in the gripping Southern Ocean leg , 11th Hour Racing  were delivering a zero-to-hero comeback story.

Having overcome several potentially race-ending breakages on the long Southern Ocean Leg 3 , to win back to back wins over Legs 4, 5 and 6 – including into their home port of Newport – was shaping up to be a fairy tale finish for the US team, And with just two points separating 11th Hour and Holcim-PRB over the unpredictable leg from northern Europe, across Biscay and deep into the Mediterranean, there was potential for a nail-biting finale.

Now the outcome of the 27,000-mile race is likely to be settled in the jury room.

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After a collision, the U.S. boat retires from final leg of Ocean Race, asks for a ruling

CORRECTS TO THURSDAY, JUNE 15, NOT FRIDAY, JUNE 16 - This handout provided by The Ocean Race shows the 11th Hour Racing team boat, left, being T-boned by Guyot environnement — Team Europe during the last leg of The Ocean Race around-the-world sailing competition near Aarhus, Denmark, Thursday, June 15, 2023. (The Ocean Race via AP)

CORRECTS TO THURSDAY, JUNE 15, NOT FRIDAY, JUNE 16 - This handout provided by The Ocean Race shows the damaged 11th Hour Racing team boat after being T-boned by Guyot environnement — Team Europe during the last leg of The Ocean Race around-the-world sailing competition near Aarhus, Denmark, Thursday, June 16, 2023. (The Ocean Race via AP)

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The leading boat in The Ocean Race dropped out of the last leg of the around-the-world sailing competition on Friday and asked the sport’s overseers for compensation in the standings to make up for the collision that punctured its carbon fiber hull .

Six months after leaving Spain on a 32,000-nautical mile (37,000-mile, 59,000-km) circumnavigation of the globe, 11th Hour Racing was T-boned by Guyot environnement — Team Europe 17 minutes after leaving The Hague, the Netherlands, for the seventh and final leg. Guyot skipper Benjamin Dutreux has admitted the collision was his fault.

Newport, Rhode Island-based 11th Hour has filed a Request for Redress to the World Sailing International Jury. It is empowered under the Racing Rules of Sailing to compensate a boat when “a boat’s score or place in a race or series has been or may be, through no fault of her own, made significantly worse.”

11th Hour was atop the leaderboard through six legs and the corresponding in-port races with 33 points. Team Holcim — PRB was second, with 31 points, followed by Team Malizia (27), Biotherm Racing (19) and Guyot environnement (2). The seventh leg, to Genoa, Italy, is worth five points to the winner, four for second place and three for third; without a ruling by the jury, 11th Hour would get zero points.

11th Hour skipper Charlie Enright said crews are working to repair the boat so it can rejoin what it started.

“We are working around the clock to repair the boat as quickly as possible, and our intent is to sail to Genoa to rejoin the fleet and complete this lap around our blue planet,” he said. “Everyone is obviously devastated — no one wants to finish a race like this — but spirits are high within the team, and everyone is focused on finishing this incredible race on a high note.”

The 11th Hour team had won three straight legs of the race to move atop the standings, giving the race’s only U.S. entry a chance for victory if it had finished in front of or only one boat behind the Swiss Team Holcim. But Dutreux said he didn’t see the American boat, which had the right of way, and crashed his bowsprit into the 11th Hour hull.

“I take all responsibility. It’s our fault for sure,” said Dutreux, whose last-place boat immediately retired from the leg. “I’m very sorry about this. I really hope they will get back and win this race. ... We will try to help them all we can.”

11th Hour returned to port and began trying to fix the gaping hole in its hull, but decided on Friday it could not rejoin the race.

The crash was the latest setback for 11th Hour and its co-founder Enright, a Rhode Island native and Brown University alum who is in his third around-the-world race. He finished fifth in both previous attempts — sustaining two major setbacks in the previous edition in 2018: a collision with a fishing boat and a dismasting.

In this year’s race, 11th Hour noticed cracks on its foils near the end of the first leg, which departed from Alicante, Spain, on Jan. 15. The boat also triggered its hazard alarm after hitting what they suspected was a whale. Two crew members were injured in the collision.

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Latest News: Fickle First Week for McIntyre Ocean Globe Race

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-135 days until the start of Leg 2!Start Day!

5 November Race Start Leg 2, Cape Town to Auckland, Table Bay Harbour (Live streamed on Facebook and YouTube ).

Entrants depart the V&A marina from 10:30hrs local time. Official start 14:00hrs local time. The race start can be viewed from East Pier, Cape Town Harbour.

Follow the fleet on our live tracker as the boats make their way from Punta del Este , Uruguay, to Cowes , UK, on leg 4 of the Ocean Globe Race. The fleet left Uruguay on March 5th and ETA in Cowes is between April 11th-26th.

Leg results, in the spirit of the original 1973 whitbread race, celebrating the 50th anniversary, it's all about the stories, follow the race.

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Turning the tide for ordinary sailors with a dream

The golden age of fully crewed ocean racing around the world seems a distant memory..

Huge budgets and elite professionals racing custom carbon yachts costing upwards of €1m, that 'fly' on foils steered by sophisticated autopilots, not sailors, where shore teams via satellite are making tactical decisions are the new norm. Technology moves so fast that sailors the world over, while marvelling at these advances, have been left behind and look back fondly at the Corinthian days of the 1973 Whitbread Race and dream.

A time when adventurous sailors put together their own campaigns, skippers and crew made all decisions and the fleet was evenly matched. A time when budgets played a small part, technology was minimal and humans dared to achieve.

Well it’s time for a reality check. Time to step back, slow down, take a deep breath and experience life defining moments!

Following the hugely successful 50th anniversary Golden Globe Race in 2018, and again in 2022, McIntyre Adventure is proud to launch the 50th anniversary celebration of that first fully crewed round the world race. This retro Ocean Globe Race (OGR) takes to the high seas with 14 teams on September 10th from Ocean Village, following the same route as the clipper ships and the inaugural 1973 Whitbread Race in similar, affordable yachts.

The Ocean Globe Race is the future of accessible around the world ocean yacht racing for any sailor and has a huge future. This opportunity returns after nearly 30 years and is set to inspire and capture the imagination of sailors and passionate followers the world over. Already nine teams are preparing for the 2027 OGR as sailors grasp what this opportunity truly means. 

Turning the tide for ordinary sailors with a dream.

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2023 Entrants

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• Boat Type: Swan 65
• Skipper: Marco Trombetti / Vittorio Malingri
• Country: ITALY

• Boat Type: Swan 53
• Skipper: Jean d'Arthuys
• Country: FRANCE

• Boat Type: Baltic 55
• Skipper: Campbell Mackie
• Country: AUSTRALIA

• Boat Type: Swan 53 (Hull No. 17)
• Skipper: Rufus Brand
• Country: SOUTH AFRICA

• Boat Type: 58ft Bruce Farr Design
• Skipper: Heather Thomas
• Country: UNITED KINGDOM

Pen Duick VI

• Boat Type: 73ft Bermudan Ketch
• Skipper: Marie Tabarly

• Boat Type: Swan 65 Ketch
• Skipper: Dominique Dubois

• Boat Type: Swan 51
• Skipper: Taylor Grieger
• Country: USA

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• Boat Type: Swan 55 (Hull No. 2)
• Skipper: Tapio Lehtinen
• Country: FINLAND

L’Esprit d’équipe

• Boat Type: 33 Export
• Skipper: Lionel Regnier

Spirit of Helsinki

• Boat Type: Swan 651
• Skipper: Jussi Paavoseppä

• Boat Type: 60ft Aluminium Sloop
• Skipper: Tanneguy Raffray

White Shadow

• Boat Type: Swan 57
• Skipper: Jean-Christophe Petit
• Country: SPAIN

• Boat Type: Nautor Swan 57
• Skipper: Mark Sinclair

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The Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic Whitbread Race the best way possible, by sailing around the world like it’s 1973.

The opportunity returns to race around the globe

Time to step back, slow down, take a deep breath and go..

With so many of the beautiful yachts from previous Whitbreads being rescued and restored, as has Maiden of course, it seems only fitting that they should be raced around the world again! Tracy Edwards MBE, Maiden

I'm delighted to hear that a 50th anniversary edition of the Whitbread is being launched. The Ocean Globe will be a great adventure as well as a great race for the participants. What a challenge one can set themselves? My congratulations to the organisers - it's such a bold and exciting move. Sir Chay Blyth

Of all the challenges, this Ocean Globe Race beats all its predecessors, the Whitbread and those that followed in its wake. The late Bob Fisher, veteran yachting journalist and author

This supreme challenge is an opportunity for those who could usually only dream of participating in such an event. Take it from me, this will offer an experience of a lifetime with lasting memories that will forever remind you of a unique and outstanding achievement. Ashley Manton, Chairman International Association of Cape Horners

What a brilliant idea to give people another chance to have the fun, to make the friends and to share the experiences we had fifty years ago. There will be days and weeks of being terrified, exhausted, cold, wet and miserable; other times you will be excruciatingly bored, but you will make friends for life, with a deep friendship born of the shared experience of danger, exhaustion and discomfort, and at the end you will realise it was the best thing you have done in your entire life. Butch Dalrymple Smith, Crew Sayula Winner 1973

The first Whitbread Race in '73 was a huge adventure and became a major milestone in the history of ocean racing. This retro Ocean Globe Race marking the 50th anniversary of that first race will be just as exciting and provides a unique opportunity for ordinary sailors to test themselves in the rolling surf of southern oceans once more. Barry Pickthall, Author of five Whitbread Race books

Those early Whitbread days really were full of passion. Every edition put up new challenges with the human element so important. The stories and characters became legend and we had a lot of fun. I have lots of memories of 'Fisher & Paykel', many of which are about coming only second! This new Classic Challenge in the Ocean Globe is going to excite a lot of people on and off the water. Imagine if Steinlager and F&P return! Grant Dalton, Whitbread and Volvo Ocean Race legend

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Orca Uprising: Why did killer whales target racing yachts during The Ocean Race?

Posted: March 16, 2024 | Last updated: March 16, 2024

Orca uprising

During 2023, we witnessed large pods of orcas ramming and sinking ships off the coast of Gibraltar. They would precisly target ship keels and rudders in order to disable the vessle! Two racing yatchs were attacked by the killer whales during The Ocean Race, but why?

Aquatic violence

Such aquatic violence has puzzled scientists, who have undergone multiple studies to try and understand the behavioral patterns of the ocean's top apex predator. According to Live Science, many scientists believe the attacks stem from a traumatized orca, seeking 'revenge'.

Terrifying sailors

The pods of orcas off the coast of Portugal and Spain have become the new pirates of the Strait of Gibraltar, terrifying sailors all along the coast. During The Ocean Race, the orcas attacked the JAJO sailing team and Mirpuri Trifork Racing!

Three ships sunk

The attacks consist of pods of orcas ramming into hulls, completely disabling the vessel. According to Lopez Fernandez, a biologist at the Univerity of Aveiro in Portugal, "the reports of interactions have been continuous since 2020 in places where orcas are found, either in Galicia or in the Straight. In more than 500 interactions events recorded in 2022 there are three sunken ships."

Vessels are the target

The Spanish Coast Guard has recorded 54 incidents, and 13 of those attacks caused considerable damage. Data shows that 90% of the attacks target sailboats, and the theory beyond this is like something straight out of a Hitchcock film.

VO65 sailboat

Both the JAJO Team and the Mirpuri Trifork Racing team used the same sailboats during the 2023 race, a VO65 model specifically built for The Ocean Race Sprint. The race aimed to circumnavigate the globe, starting off in Alicante and ending in The Hague.

"Absolutely terrifying"

Both sailing teams were intercepted by the pods of orcas roaming around the Straight of Gibraltar. Jelmer van Beek, captain of the JAJO team, described the situation as "absolutely terrifying, three orcas came directly towards us and began hitting the vessel. They targeted the hull and the rudder...It's incredible to see such beautiful animals turn into such a threat to the boat and the team", ESPN reported.

Underwater menace

Van Beek decided to cut sails and drastically reduce the speed of the ship. After a series of coordinated charges aimed at the hull, the pod of orcas disappeared into the ocean blue.

Overwhelming amount of attacks

Thankfully, both sailing teams suffered only minor damages and could continue with The Ocean Race, clocking in a good time at the end of the race.

Killer whale phenomenon

The possible explanations for why, though, aren't as clear-cut as orcas wanting to take down billionaire boats...What is their motive? Who is behind this gang of killer whales?

What is going on?

Since the start of 2023, there has been an increased number of orcas roaming around the Atlantic. The online publication, Marine Mammal Science believes these strange behaviors are related to past traumas with boats. The orcas were either hit by the hull or felt distress due to the electric machinery onboard the vessel.

Orcas are not a human threat

According to National Geographic, since 2020, there have been a total of 744 interactions off the North African coast up to the UK. 505 of said interactions are labeled "attacks", only 19.9% of all orca attacks cause serious damages.

Gladys, the orca leader

The leader behind this aquatic gang is an orca named Gladys, a traumatized killer whale who leads a pod of 15 members. Scientists believe she is showing the juvenile orcas how to coordinate attacks and sink yachts!

Are they playing?

Killer whales are known for their incredible intelligence and 'child-like' curiosity. Orcas are known to casually play with each other for leisure, they often play with their prey as well. One of the ocean's top apex predators, they rule the seas!

What team are you on?

Scientists are wondering if the recent attacks off the coast of Scotland's Shetland Islands are correlated, this first-ever attack in that area... Maybe Gladys' distant Scottish cousins! Everyone on social media is choosing a side, "team Orca" or "team Yacht", what side are you on?

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Oldest Ocean Globe Race Boat: Olin Stephens’ Galiana

Galiana WithSecure is the last Olin Stephens yawl designed for RORC/CCA, a run that started with Dorade in 1930. She’s also the oldest boat in the current Ocean Globe race 

About galiana withsecure.

Galiana WithSecure , a 1970-vintage, yawl-rigged, S&S-designed Swan 55 is the oldest yacht competing in the current Ocean Globe Race. Skippered by Tapio Lehtinen and crewed by young Finnish sailors keen to experience the adventurous golden age of sailing during the 70s and 80s, she is the last design under RORC/CCA rules in a 40-year lineage of Olin Stephens designed ocean racing yawls dating back to his breakthrough 1929 design Dorade .  

Dorade, launched from Minneford’s shipyard, New York in 1930 revolutionised offshore racing, finishing 2 nd in that year’s Bermuda Race before going on to win the 1931 Trans-Atlantic Race and Fastnet classic in ’31 and ’33. Between times, she took overall honours in the 1932 Bermuda Race and won the 1936 TransPac – a feat repeated in 2013! 

Previously, Bermuda and Fastnet Races had been won by designs derived largely from fishing schooners and pilot cutters. Dorade by contrast was an ocean-going version of a Six Meter, the class in which Olin and his brother Rod Stephens had first learned to race and later design. 

Tapio has been a big Olin Stephens fan since his junior sailing days and always thought that the Swan 55 yawl remains the most beautiful and classiest boat Nautor has ever built. 

The Finnish skipper recalls, “I have loved the classic Six Meters since my childhood and have owned my S&S designed May Be IV for almost 4 decades. Dorade has always been a sacred yacht in my eyes and one of my dream boats. “

When Lehtinen, who competed in both the 2018 and 2022 Gold Globe races with his S&S designed Gaia 36 , Asteria, a long-keeled forerunner to the Nautor Swan 36, learned from Race founder Don McIntyre that he was planning a retro fully crewed race to mark the Whitbread anniversary, The Finn realised he could fulfil two dreams in one – re-sailing the Whitbread, (he completed the 1981/2 Whitbread aboard  the Baltic 51 Skopbank of Finland ) and owning a Swan 55 yawl.

“When I bought Galiana in 2020, I decided to sail her as much as possible before starting to make her ready for the OGR. Two seasons later I had my list of improvements”.

Preparing Galiana to race

All bunks are now aligned with the keel, so your head is never lower than your feet regardless of the tack. The open saloon without any bunks now, has two sea bunks on both sides plus two settee berths in the middle – making the saloon deliberately cramped to avoid anyone falling across the boat. 

Dry interior

Keeping the interior as dry as possible was achieved by removing the companionway leading from the cockpit to the aft cabin, and building a new dodger and hatchway modelled on the 1930 S&S yawls Comet and Manitou (JFK’s boat during his presidential years) that now leads from the forward end of the centre cockpit down to a wet room amidships.

Having read all the books about S&S designs and studied their ‘60s era 50-60 ft racing yachts, I know that a number had their companionway leading from the top of the coach roof into the main saloon. I also remember the German team, who raced the Swan 55 sloop Walross III Berlin in the ‘81 Whitbread Race complaining that the whole boat (especially the aft cabin) being soaking wet during the Southern Ocean legs. Now the aft cabin is closed off with a sliding door and stays dry.

Nav station

Galiana’s original aft cabin layout included a transverse double bunk under the cockpit. This has made way for our nav station with a gimbled chart table complete with a leather Harley Davidson saddle which has proved itself to be a great feature during the first leg of the race. During the 1981 Race, I had the honour of being shown around Pen Duick VI by Eric Tabarly. He too had a gimballed tables and Harley Davison seat. My plan is to invite his daughter Marie on board to show her Galiana’s nav station – and ask her to sign her father’s book on offshore racing for me. Hopefully she gets out of hospital before we leave Cape Town. (she was bitten by a seal when attempting to hop over one on the dock…)

The cabin now has two bunks set higher than original, and now aligned with the keel. At 60cm wide, they make great sea berths, but the starboard one can be opened into a small double bunk when in port – I’m single, but always optimist!

The ‘boiler room’

The central space where the nav table used to be, is now the ‘boiler room’. This wet area also houses all the electronics which are placed close to the centreline to limit the likelihood of them getting wet in the event of a knock down or roll over. 

This room also houses the water maker, two Safire diesel hot air heaters, and diesel generator. One popular feature is the drying locker for foul weather gear fitted with heated steel ‘organ’ pipes to dry wet boots, hats and gloves. There’s also a ‘liars’ bench, where crew can sit in their wet gear, having a cuppa, while telling yarns about the last port of call. We also fitted a door between this wet room and aft toilet so that crew can take a leak without getting the rest of the interior. wet. Note: It is forbidden to pee over the side on Galiana – We are a safe boat– not to say civilised!

Galiana: Main saloon

One detail important to me is the table, which came from Asteria , made by Cantiere Benello in Livorno in 1965 to S&S drawings. I had left the table ashore during the GGR races because of the lack of space, Likewise Galiana’s original table is now too big, but this sentimental piece of Asteria (which sank shortly after rounding the Cape of Good Hope) is with me. Two steel tubes were installed into the table from the floors up to the deck to make the table sturdy. Two more run longitudinally under the deck to give a good handhold for crew climbing in and out of the upper sea bunks.

The interior has proved to be very safe and functional. Every berth is 60 cm wide which in my opinion, is the most comfortable, with lee cloths stopping you from rolling from side to side…or out of the bunk. Some of the berths can be opened wider when in port. Another piece of nostalgia is the 1940s Paul E Luke solid fuel soap stone stove we have installed in the saloon. These were standard features aboard classy American cruising yachts cruising in the cool waters around Maine. Production ceased decades ago, but a friend found one in a second-hand chandlery in Texas. And we had it shipped over just in case we run out of diesel fuel during the cold Southern Ocean legs.

Unwanted privacy

I had planned to keep the cabin doors on the forward quarters around the mast to give the girls within our crew some measure of privacy, but the first thing they did was to take them out, insisting that they did not want preferable treatment.  At least their decision helped lighten ship!

Dismasted in the Fastnet

Our participation in the OGR was put at risk six weeks before the start when our new main mast came crashing down 10 hours into the stormy Fastnet Race. This led to a frantic rig replacement project undertaken by Marine Rigging Services in Gosport who upgraded all the rigging terminals to fully articulating connectors similar to those pioneered by Cornelis van Rietschoten for his 1981/2 race winning maxi Flyer. To motivate the task force, I reminded them how Simon le Bon’s Whitbread maxi Drum made it to the start of the 1985 Whitbread after losing her keel and capsizing also in the Fastnet. They made it…and thankfully, so did we.

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Built Nautor Swan, 1970

LOA 55ft 3in (16.8m)

LWL 38ft 6in (11.7m)

Draught 8ft (2.4m)

Disp 20.6 tonnes

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Sailor Cole Brauer makes history as the first American woman to race solo around the world

Aboard her 40-foot racing boat First Light ,  29-year-old Cole Brauer just became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself.

The New York native pulled into A Coruña, Spain, on Thursday after a treacherous 30,000-mile journey that took 130 days.

She thanked a cheering crowd of family and fans who had been waiting for her on shore.

“This is really cool and so overwhelming in every sense of the word,” she exclaimed, before drinking Champagne from her trophy.

The 5-foot-2 powerhouse placed second out of 16 avid sailors who competed in the Global Solo Challenge, a circumnavigation race that started in A Coruña with participants from 10 countries. The first-of-its-kind event   allowed a wide range of boats to set off in successive departures based on performance characteristics. Brauer started on Oct. 29, sailing down the west coast of Africa, over to Australia, and around the tip of South America before returning to Spain.

Brauer is the only woman and the youngest competitor in the event — something she hopes young girls in and out of the sport can draw inspiration from.

“It would be amazing if there was just one girl that saw me and said, ‘Oh, I can do that too,’” Brauer said of her history-making sail.

It’s a grueling race, and more than half of the competitors have dropped out so far. One struck something that caused his boat to flood, and another sailor had to abandon his ship after a mast broke as a severe storm was moving in.

The four-month journey is fraught with danger, including navigating the three “Great Capes” of Africa, Australia and South America. Rounding South America’s Cape Horn, where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet, is often likened to climbing Mount Everest because of its perfect storm of hazards — a sharp rise in the ocean floor and whipping westerly winds push up massive waves. Combined with the frigid waters and stray icebergs, the area is known as a graveyard for ships, according to NASA. Brauer  said  she was “so unbelievably stoked” when she sailed past Cape Horn in January.

Marco Nannini, organizer of the Global Solo Challenge, said the comparison to scaling Mount Everest doesn’t capture the difficulty of the race. Sailing solo means not just being a skipper but a project manager — steering the boat, fixing equipment, understanding the weather and maintaining one’s physical health.

Nannini cited the relatively minuscule number of people who have sailed around the world solo — 186, according to the International Association of Cape Horners — as evidence of the challenges that competitors face. More than 6,000 people have climbed Mount Everest, according to  High Adventure Expeditions .

Brauer stared down 30-foot waves that had enough force to throw her across the boat. In a scare caught on camera, she badly injured her rib   near the halfway point of the event. At another point, her team in the U.S. directed Brauer to insert an IV into her own arm due to dehydration from vomiting and diarrhea.

She was able to stay in constant communication with members of her team, most of whom are based in New England,   and keep herself entertained with Netflix and video calls with family through Starlink satellites.   That’s also how Brauer was able to use Zoom to connect with NBC News for an interview, while she was sailing about 1,000 miles west of the Canary Islands.

While Brauer was technically alone on First Light, she had the company of 450,000 followers on Instagram, where she frequently got candid about life on an unforgiving sea while reflecting on her journey.

“It all makes it worth it when you come out here, you sit on the bow, and you see how beautiful it is,” she said in an Instagram video, before panning the camera to reveal the radiant sunrise.

Brauer grew up on Long Island but didn’t learn to sail until she went to college in Hawaii. She traded in her goal of becoming a doctor for life on the water. But she quickly learned making a career as a sailor is extremely difficult, with professional racers often hesitant to welcome a 100-pound young woman on their team.

Even when she was trying to find sponsors for the Global Solo Challenge, she said a lot of people “wouldn’t touch her with a 10-foot pole” because they saw her as a “liability.”

Brauer’s message to the skeptics and naysayers? “Watch me.”

“I push so much harder when someone’s like, ‘No, you can’t do that,’ or ‘You’re too small,’” Brauer explained.

“The biggest asset is your mental strength, not the physical one,” Nannini said. “Cole is showing everyone that.”

Brauer hopes to continue competing professionally and is already eyeing another around-the-world competition, but not before she gets her hands on a croissant and cappuccino.

“My mouth is watering just thinking about that.”

Emilie Ikeda is an NBC News correspondent.

Cole Brauer becomes first American woman to race sailboat alone, nonstop around world

Cole Brauer became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself when she arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain

A CORUNA, Spain -- Alone, Cole Brauer braved three oceans and the elements as she navigated her sailboat for months.

When she and her 40-foot (12.2-meter) sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain , the 29-year-old became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself, traveling across about 30,000 miles (48,280 kilometers).

Brauer, all 5-foot-2 (1.6-meter) and 100 pounds (45.4 kilograms) of her, is one of more than a dozen sailors competing in the Global Solo Challenge. Brauer was the youngest and only woman in the group that set sail in October from A Coruna.

The starts were staggered. Brauer took off Oct. 29. As of Thursday, some in the field had dropped out of the race.

The race took Brauer south along the west coast of Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope and then eastward toward Australia . From there, she continued east where Brauer faced the unpredictable, treacherous and deadly Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America before continuing northeast across the Atlantic Ocean toward Spain.

The race took her 130 days to complete.

“This is really cool and so overwhelming in every sense of the word,” NBC News reported Brauer saying before drinking Champagne from her trophy Thursday while being celebrated by family and fans.

While Brauer is the first American woman to race around the globe alone by sea, she is not first woman to do so. Polish sailor Krystina Chojnowska-Liskiewicz finished her 401-day voyage around the globe on April 21, 1978, according to online sailing sites.

Kay Cottee of Australia was the first woman to achieve the feat nonstop, sailing off from Sydney Harbor in Australia in November 1987 and returning 189 days later.

The global voyage is not an easy one, even on a vessel with a full crew.

“Solo sailors, you have to be able to do everything," Brauer told the NBC “Today” show Thursday. "You need to be able to take care of yourself. You need to be able to get up, even when you’re so exhausted. And you have to be able to fix everything on the boat.”

Satellite communications allowed Brauer to stay in touch with her racing team and connect with fans on social media, where she posted videos from the race and her boat, “First Light.”

Along the way she encountered 30-foot (9.1-meter) waves that tossed her about the boat, according to NBC News.

She injured a rib and even gave herself an IV to fend off dehydration.

Sailing solo means not just being a skipper but a project manager, said Marco Nannini, the race's organizer. That means steering the vessel, making repairs, knowing the weather and keeping yourself healthy, he said.

“The biggest asset is your mental strength, not the physical one,” Nannini said. “Cole is showing everyone that.”

One of Brauer's social media posts from Dec. 8 showed her frustration.

“I haven’t really had the bandwidth to get into everything that’s been going on the past 48 hours, but the short version is the autopilot has been acting up again and I needed to replace some parts and do a rudder recalibration,” she wrote. “For once the light air is actually helping, but it’s been exhausting, and I’m sore and tired.”

“It’s all part of the journey, and I’m sure I’ll be feeling better once the work is done and I’ve gotten some sleep,” Brauer added. “But right now things are tough.”

But she's handled the tough, even though some in the sport believed it wouldn't be possible due to her gender and small frame.

“I push so much harder when someone’s like, ‘no, you can’t do that,’ or ‘you’re too small,’” Brauer said.

“It would be amazing if there was just one other girl that saw me and said ‘Oh, I can do that, too,'” she added.

This story has been updated to remove an erroneous reference to Brauer being the first American woman to circumnavigate the globe alone in a sailboat.

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A record on the high seas: Cole Brauer becomes first US woman to sail solo around the world

On Thursday, Cole Brauer made history, becoming the first American woman to sail solo nonstop around the world. The 29-year-old from Long Island, New York, celebrated at the finish line in Spain by drinking champagne from her trophy.

Friends, peers and sailing enthusiasts had been cheering Brauer on since last October, when she embarked on her more than four-month journey.

Race organizer Marco Nannini told USA TODAY he started the Global Solo Challenge to "create a platform for sailors like Cole to showcase her skills and move on to a pro sailor career."

While at sea Brauer kept her more than 400,000 Instagram followers updated − and entertained − with videos from onboard First Light. The trip was extremely challenging and physically exhausting, Brauer said in one video from December.

In the post, she describes how frustrated she felt when she had to fix and replace different parts of the boat.

"I don't want you guys to think I'm like Superwoman or something," Brauer said. "Right now I've been feeling just broken," she added, describing how she had to fix the boat's autopilot system after injuring her torso against the side of the boat's hull amid intense waves.

Who is Cole Brauer?

Brauer is from Long Island and competed for the University of Hawaii sailing team. She went to high school in East Hampton, New York, her university team website says. She was the youngest of more than a dozen sailors, or skippers, in the Global Solo Challenge.

The professional sailor lives in Boothbay, Maine, and during the spring and summer, she can be also found in Newport, Rhode Island, gearing up for races, the Newport Daily News reported last year .

Brauer has sailed on First Light, a 40-foot yacht, for over five years, the outlet reported.

"I always said I wanted to race around the world in this boat," she told the newspaper.

From above and below First Light's deck, Brauer shared aspects of her journey with followers and die-hard sailing fans.

On New Year's Eve, she donned a dress and danced at midnight , and in another post, she showed off how many pull-ups she can do.

As the only woman racing solo, nonstop around the world in the first Global Solo Challenge, Brauer said she was determined to prove there's nothing women and girls cannot accomplish.

"I push so much harder when someone's like, 'No, you can't do that,'" Brauer told NBC Nightly News . "And I'm like, 'OK, watch me.'"

Brauer is the first American woman to sail solo around the world. But Kay Cottee of Australia was the first woman in the world to accomplish the milestone, sailing off from Sydney Harbor in Australia in November 1987 and returning 189 days later.

On her profile page on the Global Solo Challenge website, Brauer said she wanted to send a message to the sailing community that it's time to leave its male-dominated culture in the past. In the profile, Brauer took aim at a lack of equal pay and what she describes as harassment in the sailing industry.

"Just as well as this community has built me up it has broken me and my fellow female teammates down. I am doing this race for them," Brauer said.

Brauer and her spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

How long was Cole Brauer at sea?

Brauer was sailing for over four months after departing on Oct. 29.

She finished second in the race, behind a sailor who departed about a month before she did.

The start times differed because that first place boat, Phillipe Delamare's Mowgli, is much slower, Nannini said, explaining the race's staggered start times.

"The format means that if you enter on a slow, small boat you can still win, which makes it much more inclusive than an event where a bigger budget is a definite advantage," he said.

France's Delamare will win first-place prize money of 7,500 euros (about $8,140), Brauer will win 5,000 euros (about $5,430) and the third place finisher will win 2,500 euros (about $2,710), Nannini said.

How dangerous was Cole Brauer's sailing race?

A medical team including a nurse and a physician trained Brauer and sent her on her journey with medicines and medical supplies, in case of any health issues, according to her Instagram account.

Early in the race, Brauer administered her own IV with a saline solution after she became dehydrated, according to one video posted to her social media.

Brauer's most serious health scare happened in early December when she said gnarly ocean conditions caused the boat to jolt, throwing her across the inside of the boat and slamming her hard against a wall.

Her ribs were badly bruised as a result, and her medical team told her to alternate between taking Advil and Tylenol, Brauer said on Instagram.

"Rigging up a sleeping seat belt has been added to my priority list," she said in the post's caption. "I know I'm very lucky that this wasn't a lot worse."

What is the Global Solo Challenge?

The inaugural Global Solo Challenge is a nonstop sailing race in which competitors departed last year from A Coruña, Spain.

The race encompasses nearly 30,000 miles and takes place mostly in the southern hemisphere.

After leaving waters off the coast of Spain, sailors travel south and around Africa's Cape of Good Hope. The race then includes the two other capes that together make up the famous three great capes: Australia's Cape Leeuwin and South America's Cape Horn.

About half of the other competitors dropped out of the race, according to racing data posted online by the Global Solo Challenge.

Delamare finished the race late last month after embarking on his journey in late September 2023, according to race data.

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