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Likely candidates would be the likes of the Sydney to Hobart big boat class such as the 100-footer Scallywag, as well as other private owner ocean passage yachts, as well as IMOCA 60 and VO65s. here
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Likely candidates would be the likes of the Sydney to Hobart big boat class such as the 100-footer Scallywag, as well as other private owner ocean passage yachts, as well as IMOCA 60 and VO65s. here
The organisers have appointed the appropriately-named serial round-the-world campaigner Andrew Cape as race director and say the race is aimed at ocean-going race boats in the range of 60 to 100 feet with a minimum crew of four.
Starting in a yet to be decided location in Europe, stops are planned in Cape Town in South Africa, Hobart in Tasmania, and South America, before returning to finish in Europe. Rather than making stopover deals with cities and building race villages, the organisers plan instead to use local yacht clubs to host the fleet. here
A provisional Notice of Race has been issued for the proposed four-stage event which would start in October 2021 in Europe and take the competing yachts around all three of the world’s great southern capes – Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, Cape Leeuwin in Australia and the notorious Cape Horn at the tip of South America.
A minimum of ten entries are required to make the race viable – a target which seems eminently achievable given the number of suitable boats in existence around the world – but the tipping point will be how many owners are inspired to take on a round-the-world challenge such as this.
The South Pacific Milk Run
By far the most commonly traveled route is the first leg of the so-called Pacific Milk Run to the Marquesas. It's roughly 3,000 miles, depending on where you start from, and is typically mostly a broad reach or downwind. The best time for crossing on this route is March-April, so you arrive in the Marquesas near the end of the southern cyclone season. For most, this route will cross the equator and the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), where many boats experience calm or unsettled weather.
Once south of the ITCZ, the sail will be in mostly E-SE trade winds. Of course it's important to note that there are no possible stops along the way to break up the trip. Once in French Polynesia, three island groups are normally visited: the Marquesas, the Tuamotus and finally the Societies (Tahiti and her sister islands).
We arrived in the Western Tuamotus in mid-May. Then, after a month or so, worked our way southwest with the rest of the Milk Runners to Tahiti for the annual Puddle Jump crossing celebration called the Tahiti-Moorea Sailing Rendezvous. Its activities are very worthwhile as an introduction to South Pacific culture. here
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“I was in my bunk grabbing a quick power kip when I was suddenly thrown across the cabin as the boat broached,” explained Thomson. “I ran up on deck and went to ease the mainsail but nothing happened. I then went to try and cant the keel, but again nothing happened. By this stage the boat was leaning right over on its side with the spreaders in the water, so I went back down below to look inside the keel box. The section which attaches the rams to the keel had completely snapped off and the keel was swinging freely. I went back up on deck with the boat still on its side. I took all of the sails down and finally the boat righted itself.”
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The Race: The Velux 5 Oceans 2006-7 covered a route of 30,140 nautical miles. Seven skippers competed in the singlehanded race that started in Bilbao (Spain), on October 22, 2006, and finished there. There were only two stops, in Fremantle (Australia) and Norfolk (USA).
Here is an excerpt from the original race report which was posted on YachtsAndYachting.com on November 23, 2006…
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British solo skipper Alex Thomson is in trouble in the Southern Ocean, during leg one of the VELUX 5 Oceans. At approximately 03.30 GMT this morning, his yacht HUGO BOSS was sailing at 18 knots, in 30 knots of wind, when the canting keel suffered extreme structural failure and the boat capsized. here
Thomson, one of the favourites in the VELUX 5 Oceans race, was almost neck and neck with second placed Mike Golding (GBR) when the incident happened, with just one nautical mile separating the two boats. He was sailing downwind, around 1000 nautical miles south of Cape Town, South Africa, with three reefs in the mainsail in order to avoid over-powering the boat.
The IMOCA 60 HUGO BOSS, which was abandoned in the singlehanded 2006-7 Velux 5 Oceans Race, has been found washed up ashore in Patagonia at the southernmost tip of South America. British skipper Alex Thomson, who had to be rescued from the yacht by competitor Mike Golding, had lost his keel some 1000 miles from Cape Town in the Southern Ocean in November 2006. more
With the finding of the yacht, this translates to it traveling nearly 13,000 miles over 10 years across the Southern Ocean.
More to the story: Shortly after a dramatic rescue, in which the British solo sailor Mike Golding pulled fellow racer Alex Thomson from a life raft on the Southern Ocean, the two encountered another perilous situation when the top of Golding’s mast broke in two places. The pair was able to sail under jury rig to Cape Town where Golding then made the decision to retire from the race. [links]
We started in the northern hemisphere and 90% of the course is in the southern hemisphere. But we live in the northern hemisphere, and the start is in the northern hemisphere, so this is a step, a step forward. here
I don’t think about the end of the South because it’s not the end. When we round Cape Horn we’ll be near the end, but we’re not there.
“I’ve never done a round the world so quickly, that’s for sure already. Bernard has yes, because he did it with Orange II [the trimaran which set a Jules Verne record in 2005], which is something else entirely,” commented Le Cam. more
For Le Cam and Stamm, the rapid crossing represents a significant psychological step closer to home. With around 2,800 miles theoretically left to sail, the circumnavigation is far from over, but Le Cam explained that mentally, the final miles of the North Atlantic always seem to pass much more quickly than the equivalent miles of desolate Southern Ocean.
Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam covered approximately 4,000 miles from the tip of South America to the latitude of 0 degrees in just 12 days, 19 hours and 57 minutes, the fastest crossing of the South Atlantic yet by an IMOCA 60 – in the last edition of the Barcelona World Race Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron on Virbac Paprec 3 took 15 days, 1 hour and 50 minutes, whilst in 2009 solo sailor Francois Gabart completed the same section of ocean in 13 days 19 hours and 21 minutes.