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Golden Globe Race

Show news Guy deBoer on the 2026 GGR
A Q&A with Guy deBoer on the Golden Globe Race 2026
Posted on 8 Jul Golden Globe Race offers 24/7 livestream
One-way live window into selected yachts racing around the world
Posted on 27 May Arthur Beale Partners with Golden Globe Race
As Exclusive Clothing and Accessories Partner
Posted on 7 May McIntyre Golden Globe 24/7 for eight months?
No GPS, no sat phones, no computers, totally alone... but would you watch it live on YouTube?
Posted on 27 Apr Golden Globe Race - At the heart of time
Italian sailor Andrea Lodolo moves through life with a sense of constant wonder.
Posted on 26 Mar Erden Eruç on his 2026 GGR campaign
A Q&A with Erden Eruç on his 2026 Golden Globe Race campaign
Posted on 19 Jan McIntyre Golden Globe - Nine months to go
15 of 26 McIntyre GGR entrants meet for first time in Les Sables d'Olonne during a 2-day conference
Posted on 26 Nov 2025 IACH Pindar Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented to Sir Robin Knox-Johnston KB CBE RD
Posted on 24 Nov 2025 “The Voyage of Madmen” released on YouTube
Watch the 50th anniversary 2018 Golden Globe Race film
Posted on 14 Aug 2025 Some thoughts on “Asteria's Final Voyage”
Tapio Lehti's rescue story in the GGR film “Asteria's Final Voyage”
Posted on 12 Aug 2025 Fact check! “Asteria's final voyage” - GGR 2022
The untold story of Asteria's sinking and Tapio Lehtinen's rescue!
Posted on 7 Aug 2025 Touching base with Erden Eruç
Erden Eruç on his 2026 Golden Globe Race campaign
Posted on 1 May 2025 Cruising Association honours Kirsten Neuschäfer
With The Duchess of Kent Trophy
Posted on 15 Jan 2025 2026 Golden Globe Race - Two years to go!
Nothing compares to the GGR - 29 entrants signed up and the countdown begins
Posted on 5 Sep 2024 Making waves and setting records
Kirsten Neuschäfer on how life has changed in the last 11 months
Posted on 14 Mar 2024 2023 Blue Water Medal winner announced
Kirsten Neuschäfer, the winner of the Golden Globe Race, recognised
Posted on 3 Jan 2024 Looking ahead to a year full of sailing riches
From the Arkea Ultim Challenge to the Vendee Globe, 2024 promises to be a big year
Posted on 2 Jan 2024 Erden Eruç on preparing for the 2026 Golden Globe
A Q&A with Erden Eruç about his preparations for the 2026 Golden Globe Race
Posted on 2 Jan 2024 Guy deBoer to reenact 2022 Golden Globe Race
American solo sailor is setting sail once again aboard his yacht, Spirit
Posted on 24 Dec 2023 Cole Brauer preapres for Global Solo Challenge
To become the first American woman to race solo around the globe
Posted on 24 Oct 2023 Erden Eruç on the 2026 Golden Globe Race
A Q&A with Erden Eruç on entering the 2026 Golden Globe Race
Posted on 30 Aug 2023 Kirsten takes the Golden Globe Race crown
Huge Les Sables D'Olonne prize giving celebration
Posted on 25 Jun 2023 Last finisher in Golden Globe Race 2022
Jeremy Bagshaw brings closure and more panache to the GGR 2022 finish with no food, or water
Posted on 15 Jun 2023 Jeremy Bagshaw final finisher in Golden Globe Race
Storms, barnacles, water shortages, and a broken forestay in the final approach
Posted on 8 Jun 2023 Golden Globe Race 2022 Day 249
Michael Guggenberger 3rd across the line with Provisional time of 249 days
Posted on 12 May 2023 Guggenberger arrival in Les Sables D'Olonne
Third on the podium of the longest sporting event in the world
Posted on 10 May 2023 Golden Globe Race 2022 Day 247
Capt Gugg set for GGR podium tomorrow, last of three from 16 starters!
Posted on 10 May 2023 Anything but ordinary
235 days at sea is a long, long time on any boat
Posted on 2 May 2023 Golden Globe Race 2022 Day 237
Abhilash Tomy's Remarkable Comeback
Posted on 30 Apr 2023 Abhilash Tomy arrives second
Finishing the Golden Globe Race 2022 in Les Sables D'Olonne
Posted on 29 Apr 2023
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    Guy deBoer practices his sextant work during his qualifier for the 2026 Golden Globe Race
    © Guy deBoer     Guy deBoer during the 2022 Golden Globe Race
    © Guy DeBoer Collection     Guy deBoer enjoys a quiet sunset during the 2022 Golden Globe Race
    © Guy deBoer Collection     Guy deBoer at the start of the 2022 Golden Globe Race
    © Etienne Messikommer     American skipper Guy deBoer plans to compete in the singlehanded and non-stop-around-the-world 2026 Golden Globe Race
    © Photo by Anna Suslova / @annasusslova     American skipper Guy deBoer plans to compete in the singlehanded and non-stop-around-the-world 2026 Golden Globe Race
    © Photo by Anna Suslova / @annasusslova     Mara has live-streamed 24/7 during her transatlantic adventures, but that required computers, iPads, iPhones and other equipment, all banned in GGR. Here, she tests her SSB HF radio while her chart table is temporarily taken over by live transmission gear
    © Mara Kveseth     A proposed GGR Live Window test screen showing heart rate, sailing data, scrolling fleet news, sponsor panels etc. The cockpit camera uses infrared night vision, below-deck camera tracks skipper, and mobile camera is gyro-stabilised to keep horizon level
    © TriPeak / GGR2026     Proposed GGR Live Window skipper control board, designed to protect 1968 ethos of the GGR. The sailor has only simple ON/OFF controls to transmit live video during their scheduled window, with no data readout, no incoming info and no communication functio
    © TriPeak / GGR2026     Gunnar Christensen (USA, 60), aboard his SY POMPOEN, a Hans Christian 34, is one of the seven entrants joining the GGR Window. He bought his boat in Trinidad and sailed 4,000 miles home alone after just one hour of test sailing
    © Gunnar Christensen Team     Arthur Beale Announces Official Partnership with the Golden Globe Race
    © Arthur Beale     Storms in the 2018 McIntyre GGR wreaked havoc on the fleet, with four boats lost and five dismastings. Gregor McGuckin sailing “Hanley Energy Endurance” under jury rig attempting to reach Abhilash Tomy injured on his yacht and unable to move
    © JRCC Australia     2026 GGR Israeli entrant Daniel Pinksky is currently sailing solo across the Atlantic for his 4000-mile GGR qualifier, filing daily Starlink video clips on Facebook that will have 30,000 views in the first few hours!
    © Daniel Pinksky     The only 2026 McIntyre GGR female entrant, Helga Marie `Mara`, is currently returning across the Atlantic from her GGR 4000-mile solo qualifying voyage and is streaming 24/7 on YouTube with a few million views
    © Helga Marie (Mara) Løvenskiold Kveseth     Golden Globe Race - Andre Lodolo
    © Pierre Bouras     Golden Globe Race - Andre Lodolo
    © Pierre Bouras     Golden Globe Race - Andre Lodolo
    © Pierre Bouras     Golden Globe Race - Andre Lodolo
    © Pierre Bouras     Golden Globe Race - Andre Lodolo
    © Pierre Bouras     Last day before departure in the GGR2022 Race Village. 240,000 people visited Les Sables d'Olonne for the start of the 2022 GGR
    © Nora Havel / GGR2022     Nine months to go until the Golden Globe Race 2026 and the energy is real in Les Sables d'Olonne. GGR2026 entrants gathered for an intense but fun get-together conference packed with briefings, planning and big dreams for the solo round-the-world race
    © Rob Havill / GGR 2026     Italian skipper Guido Cantini completing his GGR qualifier aboard Hannah of Cowes, a Vancouver 34. After personal challenges forced him to halt his previous Golden Globe Race campaign, he is now working hard to make the start of the 2026 edition
    © Guido Cantini / GGR2026     McIntyre Golden Globe Les Sables d'Olonne information
    © Golden Globe Race     15 out of the 26 Golden Globe Race 2026 skippers and the GGR Team gather on the beach in Les Sables d'Olonne for a special photo with Ulysses, the Greek God that watching over the sea
    © Rob Havill / GGR 2026     Entrant Helga Marie (Mara) Løvenskiold Kveseth (Left ), one of the two women in the GGR2026, with race organizer Don McIntyre
    © Rob Havill / GGR 2026     A sign from above? GGR-addict Daniel Pinsky (Left) meets 20-year-old dreamer Louis Kerdelhué in front of his ex-GGR boat in Porto – one preparing for #GGR2026, and two months later, Daniel sold his boat, bought a Baba 35 in America and entered the GGR2026
    © Daniel Pinsky / GGR2026     42-year-old French professional sailor Damien Guillou has his sights set on repeating Jean-Luc Van Den Heede's 2018 Golden Globe victory. Forced to retire from last edition in Cape Town after windvane failure on his Rustler 36 PRB, he's back for #GGR2026
    © Don McIntyre / GGR2026     Jean-Luc Van Den Heede wrote his name into the record books by not only winning the 2018 Golden Globe solo non-stop round the world race today, but becoming the oldest in history to complete such a race. Finish time: 211d – 23hr- 12m 19s
    © Tim Bishop / PPL / GGR     “The Voyage of Madmen” released on YouTube! 50th anniversary 2018 Golden Globe Race film
    © GGR2018     GGR2018 STARTDAY PICTURES TAKEN FROM BELLE POULE – A Historic Moment at the 2018 Golden Globe Race Start – Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, legendary winner of 1968 solo circumnavigation, fires cannon aboard his iconic boat Suhaili to send off new gen of sailors
    © Nick Jaffe / GGR2018
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