2022 Golden Globe Race

The 2022 edition of the Golden Globe Race will be the third edition of the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. The race starts on September 4, 2022 from Les Sables-d'Olonne in France. Like in 2018, the solo-sailors will gather for the SITraN Prologue, starting August 14, 2022, before sailing to Les Sables-d'Olonne for the GGR Race Village, which will open on August 21, 2022.[1]

2022 Golden Globe Race
Event Title
Edition3rd
Event Details
VenueLes Sables-d'Olonne
Dates4 September 2022
Yachts'Retro' fibreglass 32-36ft
Key people
Don McIntyre, Race Chairman
Sébastien Delasnerie, Race Director
Lutz Kohne, Assistant Race Director
Competitors
Competitors30
← 2018

Retro sailing

As with the 2018 Golden Globe Race, entrants are limited to sailing similar yachts and equipment to what was available to Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the winner of the original race in 1968–69. That means sailing without the use of modern technology such as satellite based navigation aids.[2] Safety equipment such as EPIRBs and AIS are carried, however the competitors are only allowed to use the technology in an emergency.[3]

Competitors could apply to have their class of boat approved, providing it was in accordance with the following rules:[3]

  • Of fibre reinforced plastic construction.
  • Designed prior to 1988 and have a minimum series of 20 yachts built from one mould.
  • Have a hull length of between 32 to 36 feet (9.8 to 11.0 m). Bowsprits, wind vanes and outboard rudders, boomkins, pushpits and pulpits are not measured.
  • Have full-length keels with rudders attached to the trailing edge.
  • A minimum design displacement of 6,200 kilograms (13,700 lb)

Route

The race starts on 4 September 2022 in Les Sables-d'Olonne and will lead around the world eastward, leaving Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn to port. There will be four "film gates" along the route - Lanzarote, Cape Town, Hobart and Punta del Este - where the skippers can be interviewed as they sail past without stopping and where they can pass over films and letters.[4]

Entrants

Entrants listed as of 6 April 2022:

Sailor Yacht Type
1 Aleix Selles Vidal Onsoro the Bodhisattva Rustler 36
2 Arnaud Gaist prénom Feï of Shanghaï Barbican 33 MKII (Long Keel Version)
3 Damien Guillou PRB Rustler 36
4 Abhilash Tomy Bayanat [5] Biscay 36
5 David Scott Cowper Tradewind 35
6 Edward Walentynowicz Noah’s Jest Rustler 36
7 Elliott Smith Second Wind GaleForce 34
8 Ertan Beskardes Lazy Otter Rustler 36
9 Gaurav Shinde Good Hope Flying Dutchman/Baba 35
10 Graham Dalton A Southern Man Rustler 36
11 Guido Cantini Hannah of Cowes Vancouver 34
12 Guy deBoer Spirit Tashiba 36
13 Guy Waites Sagarmatha Tradewind 35
14 Ian Herbert-Jones Puffin Tradewind 35
15 Jeremy Bagshaw Olleanna OE32
16 Kirsten Neuschäfer Minnehaha Cape George Cutter, CG36
17 Mark Sinclair[6] Coconut Lello 34
18 Matthew Wright Agitator Rustler 36
19 Michael Guggenberger Nina Biscay 36
20 Pat Lawless Dingle Saltram Saga 36
21 Robin Davie C’est La Vie Rustler 36
22 Simon Curwen Clara Biscay 36
23 Tapio Lehtinen Asteria Gaia 36

*As at 2021-12-27[7]

References
  1. "The Route".
  2. "Stepping back to the Golden Age of solo sailing". goldengloberace.com. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  3. "The Rules". Golden Globe Race. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  4. "The Route".
  5. "Rescued Golden Globe 2018 sailor Abhilash Tomy re-enters 2022 GGR". GGR2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.}}
  6. Captain Coconut Mark Sinclair has resumed his 2018 Golden Globe Race voyage, and will be sailing his Lello 34, Coconut solo from Australia to Les Sables d'Olonne, Katy Strickland, Yachting Monthly, 2021-12-07, accessed 2021-12-28
  7. "Skippers 2022". GGR2022. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
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