Golden Globe Clock is ticking. Xmas is just around the corner and shortly thereafter it will be just 18 months from the start of the 2018 Golden Globe Race. A growing new sense of urgency and new reality amongst the Entrants is starting to appear as the countdown continues. If you are still refitting your […]
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 […]
Well we just ran past the Two Years to Go! mark of the 50th Anniversary edition of the Golden Globe Race. It has been a very interesting and hectic six months since the London GGR conference and we are about to enter an exciting new phase of Race preparation. A few months ago we shut […]
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 […]