OF MICE AND MEN That was a caption on an article I wrote some years ago. Plans are just that. You have to have them, but you need to be smart enough to keep them flexible. As they say in the classics, everything is fluid when it comes to life! Plenty has happened in the […]
Today marks the commencement of a 2-year count-down to the start of the 2018 Golden Globe solo non-stop round the world race from Falmouth England. This update highlights the advanced state of preparation many of the entrants from 15 Countries are at. – Two new entrant confirmations: Kevin Farebrother from Australia; Lionel Regnier from […]
London Dec. 15 2015. Summary Report Race Chairman Don McIntyre Well it has been a very busy last few months of 2015. Happy New Year to all!! There are now 26 confirmed provisional entries in the Golden Globe Race. We still hold four SPECIAL INVITATIONS yet to be offered and we currently have five paid […]
Dateline December 15, Little Ship Club, London French champion Eric Loizeau, and Estonian solo circumnavigator Uku Randmaa enter the Race Four more join the wait list Race to be run under the auspices of the Royal Nomuka Yacht Club, Tonga Race founder Don McIntyre stands down as a competitor to take charge of race management […]
Fate and luck can easily change your life! A simple random thing like stopping to pick up 5 cents on the ground while walking in the street may let your IPhone slip from your shirt pocket and smash. You go to buy a new one and meet a girl behind the counter who eventually becomes […]
There is just one Golden Globe Race entry not yet claimed. In just a few short weeks, 24 unique sailors have thrown their hat in the ring for something special! They will be part of history and re-live what was the birth of solo around the world yacht racing in a way that has not […]
IT was exciting to receive 50 expressions of interest to compete in the first 6 weeks of announcing the 2018 Golden Globe Race and we now we have 18 paid up Provisional Entries just one month after applications opened. This is an unheard of response to any solo around the world yacht race and there are […]
Entries are rolling in and we may have a new TAG line. Discover it below. Yesterday I received an email from an entrant with an interesting question and thought I would share the exchange….. Don, Friends often ask me “how big the event is going to be”…my god…difficult to say at this early stage. So […]
As the Race Founder many things associated with the 2018 Golden Globe Race have formed in my mind over 20 years. Today applications for an entry to compete opened and already we have 11 submitted in the first few hours. Now I sit here trying to create a “TAG” for this most gruelling of solo […]
There is talk of an El Nino in the Pacific this year which should mean softer trade winds, but not so today! For the first time in four years we are stuck waiting weather to sail from Fiji to Tonga. The SE Trades are blowing hard. Our course is SE. We could smash into 20-30kts […]