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Fantastic result ladies!!
23/04/2024

Fantastic result ladies!!

🏆MAIDEN WINS THE OCEAN GLOBE RACE 2023-24

On Tuesday 16 April 2024, in a brisk northerly breeze the iconic yacht and her young all female crew from around the world crossed the finishing line at 1152hrs completing the 4th and final leg of the Ocean Globe Race. Seven months away from home; sailing over 28,500 nm and 154 days at sea making more Maiden history 35 years after Tracy Edwards, Maiden and her all female crew proved women sailors were as good as any male sailor in the 89/90 Whitbread Race.

The last leg was a difficult and frustrating one for Maiden, not the longest leg in miles but the longest time at sea during the whole race with the leg ranking 5th in line honours and provisional 5th in IRC with corrected elapsed time. With all legs combined, until earlier this morning (Monday 22 April) Maiden held 2nd place overall. Their closest rival Triana who were in 1st place needed to finish around 0600hrs today to retain their lead, which they did not manage to do; with the IRC overall lead Maiden is the winner of the Ocean Globe Race 2023-2024 - an awesome achievement.

Maiden’s legacy will live on – during the six year World Tour Maiden has continued the battle for equality for the next generation empowering and inspiring thousands of girls; raising awareness and funds for charities and communities around the world to ensure that girls have access to education whatever their background to enable them to follow their dreams and build better futures.

02/03/2024

Another great sailor gone…not just a great sailor but a genuinely nice person, always ready to help.
His legacy will make sure he lives on, but it’s the memories in the minds of friends and family that really keep him alive….

Our heartfelt condolences and love goes out to his family, friends and fellow sailors.
Sail on, Stan.

Fortunate rescue for William MacBrien in the South Pacific, in one of the most remote locations on earth..Great work of ...
20/02/2024

Fortunate rescue for William MacBrien in the South Pacific, in one of the most remote locations on earth..
Great work of all involved, specifically the SAR centers MRCC Punta Arenas and MRCC Chile for coordinating the rescue, as well as to Capt. WFG Garcia Jr., Master of Watatsumi and his crew.

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https://globalsolochallenge.com/william-macbrien-watatsumi-en/

🇬🇧 William MacBrien rescued after 46 hours adrift semi-submerged in south Pacific 👇
By Marco Nannini.
Photos Courtesy Cargo Vessel Watatsumi
On February 14th at 02:50 UTC disaster struck on board Phoenix. Canadian skipper William MacBrien had activated his Emergency Position Locator Beacon (EPIRB). He was in distress.
William was over 1300 nautical miles west of Cape Horn, over 3000 miles from New Zealand, 1600 miles south of the tiny remote Island of Mataroa with a population of just 90 people. William had sailed past Point Nemo just a few days before, the remotes point from any emerging land on our planet. He was closer to Antarctica than to South America where he was headed in his quest to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop by the three great capes in the Global Solo Challenge.


The Canadian skipper had handled the navigation very well to that point, with a conservative approach to his sailing that had allowed him to preserve the boat in very good conditions, reporting no technical issues worthy of mention. In our last exchange of messages on Sunday 11th William was in good spirits as chatted via whatsapp. He jokingly complained that he wished he could run the heater more often due to the pungent cold, water temperatures had plunged to 7° Celsius, but his biggest concern was his diminishing reserves of ci******es!

William MacBrien - Phoenix


He was sailing on a boat that I know very well as it is a sistership to the boat I sailed around the world in 2011/2012, Phoenix, aka Sec. Hayai, was an impeccably prepared Akilaria RC1 Class40 with a very good pedigree and which had been sailed around the world in 2008 by none less than Boris Herrmann and also in 2021 in the Globe40 by the current owner. The boat underwent a very meticulous and complete refit in the course of 2023 with no stones left unturned, the work even included the replacement of the keel to ensure the boat was in top condition for the Global Solo Challenge. When William arrived in A Coruna the boat stood out for the impeccable preparation and attention to details and safety, sporting a blindingly bright mainsail top and deck which are required to increase visibility in a search and rescue situation.

William MacBrien - Phoenix


We still don’t know what happened. William activated an EPIRB indicating he was in distress, the signal via satellite is relayed to the Coast Guard of the country of the boat’s flag, in this case the Dutch Coast Guard. The initial response is to verify if the distress is not accidental. As soon as it was confirmed with the owner of the boat that William was indeed at sea taking part in the Global Solo Challenge, the Dutch Coast Guard immediately contacted the Search and Rescue center responsible for the waters where the distress signal originated. In this case MRCC Chile in general and MRCC Punta Arenas in particular.
I was also notified and immediately got in contact with MRCC Chile. As organisers we hold a dossier for every participant to facilitate the exchange of information to ensure no precious time is lost in an emergency situation. Within minutes MRCC had all relevant information on the boat the skipper as well as identification photos, a detailed description of the boat details, construction, watertight compartments, reserve flotation and most importantly contact details for the skipper, his email and whatsapp which he used with Starlink. as well as his emergency handheld satellite phone numbers.

William MacBrien - Phoenix


Both myself and MRCC Chile tried to reach the skipper on one of his contacts but there was no response. There was a slim possibility that the EPIRB had self activated, the model of the beacon on board, which I had detailed in the dossier, can be activated manually or when in contact with water. It can sometimes happen that an EPIRB falls off his bracket into a wet bilge and goes off unnoticed, it would really not be the first time, and even the extreme humidity and saline air at those latitudes could potentially accumulate and cause the EPIRB to be triggered.
Whilst an accidental activation was our number one hope we simply could not dismiss something more serious had happened. It was convened therefore with MRCC Chile that there was no other option other than to treat the distress call as a request for immediate assistance. The word immediate is however highly inappropriate in these circumstances. Out of reach of helicopters, rescue can only come from another competitor or a commercial vessel. As we looked at the picture of shipping via satellite AIS the closest ship was over 400 miles away. The alternative was the trimaran Actual taking part in the Arkea Ultim which was 1300 miles away but sailing at 30 knots. Whilst MRCC Chile initiated the procedures and coordination of the rescue by the cargo ship closest to William, I tried to obtain any additional information that could be useful in the operation. It had been many hours since the distress signal had been sent and we had been unable to confirm with William if he was ok and the nature of the distress, or even if it had been an accidental water activation.

William MacBrien


I immediately asked the provider of the event trackers, Yellow Brick, to increase the frequency of the position updates to half an hour, as opposed to the usual 4 hours, as this may have helped to shed further light on the situation.
I had the delicate task to contact William’s partner, knowing it was night in Canada and that’s just the type of call you never want to receive. I tried to be as factual as possible as at that stage we really had so many possible scenarios to consider. Unfortunately William’s partner confirmed she too had not heard from William recently, in fact not since he had last used Starlink on Sunday 11th, as in that area is often slow to connect and the weather was easy and stable probably nor requiring frequent updates.
Right, the weather. The weather created more confusion than anything else. During the night William had sailed through a small ridge of light airs which was bringing a rotation in the wind. His boat was sailing slow but had not stopped dead in its tracks. The speed had decreased progressively in the light airs and only became suspiciously slow during the night, 3 knots, then 2.5, then 2.2. It was still possible that he was through a very light patch, that the wind change had brought a cross swell and that his sails had started to flog so annoyingly that he had decided to take his sails down to wait for new wind to fill and was just sleeping. Sometimes the noise of flogging sails in a swell is just unbearable and it is not all that uncommon to occasionally decide to just patiently wait. After all William’s goal was not to win, but to complete, his circumnavigation and a few hours lost would have not made any difference to him.
Ari Kansakoski then gave me a call. Who better than him could help me analise the drift of the boat and understand if it could be a case of dismasting. We both agreed that the boat was too fast to have dismasted. Ari confirmed he would have expected a speed of 1 to 1.5 knots with no mast in those conditions. Additionally the course in relation to the wind was somewhat difficult to understand as the boat was slow but seemed to be still proceeding at 90 degrees to the wind, reaching south.

Ari Kansakoski - ZEROchallenge Vyborov


All the meanwhile I had requested connection logs for his Starlink terminal and call and sms logs for his Iridium phones trying to shed some light as to why he had not made contact with anyone and was unreachable. 8 hours had already passed since he activated the distress signal and effectively all we knew is that the boat had not foundered as we were receiving the up to date reports of his tracker position. This was only partial consolation as the boat is technically insubmersible and it could be half sunk and drifting with the tracker on. We were desperate to confirm that William was in fact still on the boat and well.
Iridium confirmed his two phones were off, in fact the phones had not been on at any time recently. This was not good news. Too many questions were unanswered but most of all, why was William able to trigger the distress call but not make contact with shore? Why was the boat moving, just very slowly? Dismasting and the temporary lull in the wind were by now struck off the list of possibilities.
You can easily imagine what we were all thinking. No one was ready to say it aloud but we knew William, after sending the distress call, could have fallen overboard, perhaps on deck lowering sails, having lost his balance and having left the boat adrift with a tiny speck of sail. I refused to accept this as the only possibility. MRCC called repeatedly to ask if we had had any contacts or if we had any additional information. The cargo vessel Watatsumi that we had identified in the morning had been pre-altered and notified of the situation, the ship was sailing almost exactly towards William’s position so it was not initially requested to alter course. We all desperately tried to establish contact and confirm that William was indeed on the boat and needing help or even that the EPIRB had activated accidentally, although as time passed this seemed to be just wishful thinking.

William MacBrien - Phoenix


Perhaps William had abandoned the boat, was he in his liferaft? I was on the phone with MRCC Chile trying to figure out if the boat tracker and EPIRB were transmitting the same position. I admit I was feeling a little overwhelmed at that point, just trying to find any explanation that would put William in a safe place, if not on the boat perhaps on his liferaft.
At that very moment William’s partner called, I killed the call as I was speaking to MRCC Chile. She called right again, I answered. She had just spoken to William who had called from one of his satphones! It was 14:30 UTC, around 12 hours after he had sent his distress call.
What a rush of adrenaline, what a relief. What happened? How is he? What’s the situation? Why didn’t he call earlier? Too many questions.
William had said he’d woken to the noise of sloshing water and had rushed to try and deal with the water intake. Time must have just passed so quickly in those frenetic moments that he had not had the thought or time to call. He confirmed he needed to be rescued.

William MacBrien - Phoenix


At this point the cargo altered course to be on the most direct route and the countdown began to how long it would take for it to reach William. Watatsumi was still nearly 300 miles away and it would require approximately 30 hours at 10 knots boat speed.
William’s partner in the following hours received just a few more brief text messages and a call around 23:30 UTC, William said he was ok, that he had donned his Thermal Protection Suit and was no longer feeling cold, and that he could wait 24 hours for the rescue.
The following morning, February 15th, Watatsumi was still 150 Miles away and we had not had any further updates. Initially the lack of further messages seemed comforting as it meant nothing had changed and we just had to wait. MRCC enquired about his state of health and I imagined we’d hear from William at any moment, perhaps through his partner as soon as it was day break in Canada. But William never texted or called, both his satellite phones were off and as time passed I started to feel more and more uncomfortable.


It was getting dark in Europe and we had not heard from William in 16 hours. The ship was still 70 miles away. Why were his phones off? Why did he not contact us again to say he was still ok? Perhaps his phones had gotten wet.
At around 18:00 UTC MRCC Chile called me again, they had received a further distress signal, this time from a PLB, a personal EPIRB, we checked the hex code and it was indeed William. What did it mean? After 18 hours of no contact and given the circumstances we had to take it as good news, he was still there and waiting.

Photos Courtesy Watatsumi


The tracker update frequency on the boat was progressively increased. From 30’ to 15’ when the ship was 50 miles away and when Watatsumi was 10 miles away we triggered the unit to report position every 5’.
At 22:42 UTC we received a first email from MRCC Chile and MRCC Punta Arenas coordinating the operation. The Ship was alongside the distressed sailing vessel. The shipìs captain had established VHF contact with William.

Photos Courtesy Watatsumi


At 23:36 UTC the second email very briefly confirmed William had been rescued and the ship Watasumi had resumed their course.
When this morning I received the photos of the rescue I felt very emotional, a mixture of relief and heartbreak. I was finally seeing with my own eyes what the situation had really been like for William. He had spent 46 hours adrift in a semi submerged boat. He had spent a whole night inches from a freezing desolate ocean in one of the remotest places on earth, with all communication gone and just the hope that the rescue will indeed occur.

Photos Courtesy Watatsumi


I don’t think any of us, unless they lived through a similar ordeal, can even come close to imagining what it must have been like for him. I am so relieved to see he is ok and I am left wondering how much longer he could have stayed in those conditions. I am glad this last question will remain unanswered forever. I am sure we will learn soon from William what happened and all the circumstances. The immediate thought looking at the pictures is that he suffered a collision with some unidentified floating object, but there could be other reasons and only William will be able to tell us. For the time being I think we’ll let him warm up and process what happened and recover from the fright and shock. He did so incredibly well to survive such an ordeal.

Photos Courtesy Watatsumi


We wish to express our deepest and sincerest gratitude for the patient and professional assistance provided by the SAR centers MRCC Punta Arenas and MRCC Chile for coordinating the rescue, as well as to Capt. WFG Garcia Jr., Master of Watatsumi and crew. We extend our thanks to the Race Management of the Arkea Ultim who offered technical support and were on standby in case the assistance of the Ultim Actual became necessary.
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https://globalsolochallenge.com/william-macbrien-watatsumi-en/

25/07/2023
Good luck to all the boats out there!!Sail fast, stay safe!
22/07/2023

Good luck to all the boats out there!!
Sail fast, stay safe!

It's looking like a fresh upwind start for our customers competing in the 50th edition of the world-famous Rolex Fastnet Race starting from Cowes, Isle of Wight tomorrow, Saturday 22nd July.

This special anniversary edition will see a record number of competitors. 491 yachts are due to start off the Royal Yacht Squadron line, including 29 IMOCAs, 22 Class 40s & 15 MOCRA Multihulls. The fleet will race 695nm to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France via the Fastnet Rock.

Wishing the whole fleet all the best for a safe race. We'll be watching the tracker - find out how to follow here: https://www.rolexfastnetrace.com/en/competitors/race-documents/fleet-tracking

Royal Ocean Racing Club IMOCA Globe Series GAC

11/07/2023

Aujourd’hui je quitte pour la première fois ma petite Mathilda pour plus de quelques jours. J’ai le cœur lourd et joyeux à la fois car je pars rejoindre mon bateau qui est enfin à l’eau 🤩

J’ai encore un peu de mal à y croire tant les péripéties de ces derniers mois ont été nombreuses et parfois difficiles à surmonter.

Pour moi, quand on a la chance de vivre de sa passion, on se doit d’essayer de partager au maximum ce qui fait le sel de notre quotidien (c’est le cas de le dire), car ce n’est que dans le partage que nous apportons quelque chose aux autres, à vous tous qui avez sûrement des boulots plus utiles que moi mais qui vibrez en découvrant nos aventures de marins !

Mais ces derniers temps j’ai trouvé ça difficile de partager quelque chose. Je suis une navigatrice mais je n’avais pas de bateau, je n’étais quasiment jamais sur l’eau.
Non seulement j’avais l’impression de tourner en rond mais en plus c’etait nouveau pour moi de vraiment accepter qu’on ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde. Et cela m’a parfois coupé la parole.

Je n’ai probablement jamais autant appris sur moi que ces derniers mois : en tant que maman surtout, mais aussi en tant que navigatrice qui ose pour la première fois dire vraiment ce qu’elle pense. Ce n’est pas toujours facile à porter et m’a paradoxalement rendue parfois un peu muette.

Mais maintenant j’ai un bateau et grâce à toute l’équipe de L’Occitane et à mes sponsors il va bientôt naviguer !

Le défi est grand, je serai sûrement jugée car trop comme ci ou trop comme ça, mais moi au fond je sais tout ce que j’ai encore à apprendre et à quel point ce chemin (probablement rocailleux) va m’offrir une vue superbe !
Alors comptez sur moi pour ne pas en perdre une miette, et à travers chaque nuage je saurai me rappeler à quel point la lumière peut être belle.

11/07/2023

A little laugh to start the day
(But with some serious advise!)

Amazing effort by 11th hour racing team in The Ocean Race!!
29/06/2023

Amazing effort by 11th hour racing team in The Ocean Race!!

Genoa, Italy. Thursday, June 29, 2023 US offshore sailing outfit 11th Hour Racing Team has won The Ocean Race – the world’s longest and toughest team sporting event. The Newport, RI-based team is the first US-flagged entry to win The Ocean Race in its 50-year history. In unprecedented scenes, th...

27/06/2023

How’s your week going so far?? Ours is going GREAT!!

Today was Day 2 of trials with our prospective Magenta team and we went FLYING!! 🚀

We learned A LOT, made some mistakes, but more so we made waves… this is just the beginning for our team to develop the talent to reach the top of our sport in foiling!

Thanks to the teams and sailors who have supported our development in this high performance foiling class. Your guidance and enthusiasm for inclusion means more than you know!!

Also thank you to for welcoming our team for a rigging rundown this morning — we are looking forward to some multihull foiling and taking on many more foiling boats this week!

Cheers to for making all this magic happen 🙌

Amazing achievement by Kirsten Neuschäfer, winning the Gokden Globe Race 2022/2023.it also makes her the first woman to ...
28/04/2023

Amazing achievement by Kirsten Neuschäfer, winning the Gokden Globe Race 2022/2023.
it also makes her the first woman to win a solo round the worl sail race!!
BRavo Kirsten!

Fantastic news for Clarisse Cremer and L’Occitane de Provence: together with the Alex Thomson Racibgvteam they’ll be rac...
19/04/2023

Fantastic news for Clarisse Cremer and L’Occitane de Provence: together with the Alex Thomson Racibgvteam they’ll be racing in the Vendee Globe next year!!!

My team and I are proud to be working with Clarisse Cremer on her 2024 Vendee Globe campaign. We are also excited as today we announce L’OCCITANE en Provence as the title partner to come with us on this journey. For more information click the link below.

L'OCCITANE en Provence

📸 PKC Media

https://www.alexthomsonracing.com/blog/2023/04/19/clarisse-cremer-confirms-vendee-globe-2024-ambitions-with-loccitane-en-provence-partnership/

Facing your fears head on!Advise from the inspiring Pip Hare on how to deal with Isolation and Fear.
26/03/2023

Facing your fears head on!

Advise from the inspiring Pip Hare on how to deal with Isolation and Fear.

Pip Hare, professional solo sailor, shares some of her best tips for dealing with fear.

Amazing team, amazing yacht, amazing opportunity!
24/03/2023

Amazing team, amazing yacht, amazing opportunity!

We are hiring!

[email protected]

Marvelous Mariquita...
24/03/2023

Marvelous Mariquita...

Today World Sailing Trust released a comprehensive report and recommended guidelines — Project Juno — to support and pro...
24/03/2023

Today World Sailing Trust released a comprehensive report and recommended guidelines — Project Juno — to support and protect sailors who choose parenthood.
From class to event organisers, sponsors and individual athletes, we can all do better to advocate for the brave women who balance motherhood and professional sports careers.
Read more about Project Juno and how we can make sailing a more equitable and inclusive sport:
https://worldsailingtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/WST_Project-Juno_March-2023.pdf

There’s a long way to go still…
08/02/2023

There’s a long way to go still…

Donner son avis… ou pas… je ne suis pas inscrite au Vendée Globe 2024, ni mère… Mais le problème est tellement plus vaste que la maternité dans la voile.

38 ans. Il m’aura fallu 38 ans pour comprendre, et commencer à mesurer l’ampleur du problème.
Tellement obsédée par le problème d’être la « fille de » que je ne voyais même pas le problème d’être une femme dans la voile.
Je pensais que si une femme voulait naviguer, elle navigue. Nous avons tellement de caractère, tellement de volonté, que si nous voulons quelque chose, nous l’avons. Au pire nous déplacerons 2, 3 montagnes, mais nous l’aurons.
Aveugle. J’étais sourde, et aveugle. Et depuis quelques années, j’ai commencé à ouvrir les écoutilles, les autres femmes sont venues me raconter leur parcours, et j’ai aussi ouvert les yeux sur ma propre expérience.

A 38 ans, je suis capitaine d’un maxi de 22m, et d’un équipage de 25 personnes. Actuellement dans l’arc antillais pour aller courir la Caribbean 600, au moment du contrôle de la douane, 2 fois sur 3, je dois convaincre l’agent des douanes que je suis bien la capitaine, et la propriétaire. Idem en métropole, que ce soit dans les salons parisiens ou ailleurs. « Vous êtes capitaine mais qui est vraiment en charge ?» En général, un lance-flamme sort de mes yeux.
J’ai arrêté de compter les blagues de certains fournisseurs, qui clairement n’auraient jamais eu ce type d’attitude avec un homme de 50 ans. Mais ça je suis habituée, le monde du cheval n’est pas plus tendre avec nous.
Et tellement d’anecdotes :
Je tairai le nom du partenaire de l’IMOCA actuellement en course sur The Ocean Race (course autour du monde en équipage) qui a fait embarquer une « good looking girl » avec une grosse communauté Instagram plutôt que d’embarquer une autre navigatrice plus compétente. Oui. En 2023, on en est là. En 2023, on en est à devoir mettre des quotas de femmes dans les courses (Obligation d’embarquer une femme dans l’équipe). Résultats : la transat en double Paprec (ex Transat AG2R) peine à avoir plus de 4 bateaux et beaucoup d’équipières de l’Ocean Race furent recrutées au dernier moment.

Pour les médias nous devons sourire, être belles, lumineuses, ouvertes, rayonnantes, de vraies bulles de champagne. Pourtant on ne demande jamais ce genre d’attitude à Francis Joyon, ou Yves le Blevec, qui eux, ont le droit d’avoir de « vraies gueules de marins burinées par le vent ». Pourtant, nous sommes tous marins, avec donc un ADN commun et souvent un foutu caractère. Mais c’est aussi ce qui fait que nous allons courir sur l’eau, que nous avons la force de revenir à terre monter des projets, pourquoi pas même de créer une famille, et repartir.
Alors les femmes sont utilisées, pour des coup marketing, pour leur «fraîcheur» (Devinez qui est consacré Grand Prix Stratégies du Sport en 2021 ?! après que leur athlète aie accroché une 12ème place au Vendée Globe ?). Je ne parle même pas des milieux où le corps des athlètes est exposé, comme le surf et où les sponsors préfèrent la « beauté » aux performances.

Pourtant, que c’est beau la voile... Car c’est un art, en plus d’être un sport, et qu’il y a différentes façons de le vivre et de le raconter. C’est une communauté forte, soudée, que ce soit chez les coureurs, les professionnels de la mer, ou chez les personnes qui voyagent autour du monde. Le métier de coureur au large est un métier magnifique, d’une rare complexité, d’une richesse absolue, pétrie de valeurs humaines, d’élégance, de solidarité, de culture et d’histoire, de codes, et surtout de transmission. Il y a autant de façons de naviguer que de marins, et tellement d’océans à parcourir.

Mais voilà le cœur du problème : pour naviguer, et encore plus pour performer, il nous faut bénéficier de financement des partenaires. Et là… Nous aurons quelques différences dirons-nous. Prenons l’exemple d’une annonce de recrutement : s’il y a un critère demandé que la femme postulante ne sait pas faire, elle ne présentera pas son CV. Un homme, lui, postulera sans hésiter. Pour vendre nos projets, c’est la même situation. Je parlais au début de notre ténacité. Mais heureusement que nous sommes tenaces ! Car pourquoi est-ce que la recherche de partenaires doit être plus dure pour nous ?? Pourquoi ne pouvons-nous pas être prises au sérieux comme les hommes, avec nos différences ? Pourquoi tout doit être toujours plus compliqué ?
Curieusement, les 3 partenaires majeurs de Pen-Duick VI sont des entreprises gérées par des femmes…

L’époque évolue, le public est en soif de récits, d’authenticité, de valeurs fortes, de contenu sur lequel ils peuvent s’identifier, sur lequel ils peuvent en tirer un apprentissage, pas d’histoires fabriquées. Pas de performance à tout prix, mais de l’humanité.

Nous sommes en 2023, et il y a encore des partenaires qui osent dire : « Engagée dans ce sport depuis 34 ans, notre entreprise est attachée aux valeurs de mixité et d’égalité des chances et est déterminée à participer aux travaux nécessaires avec les différents acteurs pour le faire progresser. »
Mouai... « Faites ce que je dis, pas ce que je fais. »
Sponsors, entreprises, si vous êtes vraiment sur ce combat, alors vous ne faites qu’un avec votre athlète. Vous êtes solidaire, vous le comprenez, vous le soutenez, vous soutenez sa cause. Quitte à prendre un risque et rater une édition de Vendée Globe (il y a tellement d’autres courses sur le globe, est-ce si grave ?). C'est une histoire que vous vivez ensemble. Prenez un peu de recul, le monde de la voile ne tourne pas qu’autour du Vendée Globe... Et puis en général, le vainqueur du Vendée Globe est rarement le seul vainqueur du Vendée Globe, tous les participants sont des héros.
Parce qu'avant toute chose, la voile est une histoire d'Hommes et de bateaux. Et par Hommes, j'entends tous les êtres humains qui composent l'équipe: partenaires, équipe technique, amis, famille, supporters anonymes... C'est un sport d'équipe, solidaire.

Bref, le "Clarisse Gate" n’est que la partie émergée de l’iceberg, il est évident que les femmes ne sont clairement pas au même niveau que les hommes dans ce milieu. Je pensais que ce combat avait avancé, mais le signal envoyé par cet événement est dramatique.
La claque est violente, même si a priori nécessaire pour continuer de faire bouger les lignes, et nul doute que Clarisse rebondira. Je suis même heureuse qu’elle puisse être libre d’aller travailler avec des personnes qui la méritent.
Clarisse sur l'Atlantique, c'est le moment d'ouvrir tes ailes, rayonne, sois fière et retourne te faire plaisir sur l'eau ! Je suis impatiente de voir ce que tu vas nous pondre, et très confiante en ton avenir !

Sailors helping, and saving, sailors.Great to see a happy ending!
28/12/2022

Sailors helping, and saving, sailors.
Great to see a happy ending!

Great initiative, we’ll be following this with interest!
20/12/2022

Great initiative, we’ll be following this with interest!

SAS FOILING CLASS👨🏼‍🦽
We are happy to finally introduce you to the SAS Foiling Class, the first ever foiling boat designed for people with disabilities. The prototype is designed by the one and only Guillaume Verdier and it’s made to be safe, accessible and sustainable. A little bit of history📖 of this project:
📌 it was proposed for the first time in 2017 and in 2019 we gathered some of the best sailors to be our ambassadors like Glenn Ashby and Giovanni Soldini,
📌 the prototype will be developed using an already-existing hull, with piercing foils and T-shaped rudders, designed by Studio Verdier,
📌 it’s not made only for people with disabilities, but it could be used by beginners willing to get a safe and fun foiling experience and this is what we mean by saying that it’s fully accessible,
📌 it’s completely built with sustainable materials
📌 we are going to present the boat at the Genoa’s Innovation Village during the Grand Finale of the epic 🏆

Partnership with:
The Ocean Race The Ocean Race Genova - The Grand Finale
GS4C sustainable solutions



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Our Story

Sail Blue Planet has its roots in Star Chaser Sailing, which we founded in 2006 when Boogie bought Star Chaser in Newport, Rhode Island.

Boogie had had the dream of running his own boat for race charters and cruising charters for a while and finally found the right boat, a beautiful Swan 51 from 1981. A complete UK refit combined with a great way of running the boat and a clever marketing program, led to several fantastic and successful years on the ARC, in the Caribbean and Europe, with very positive crew feedback. When we decided in 2010 to sell Star Chaser after successfully building up the business from scratch, we found a lot of our crew still came to us for advice. So we decided to continue helping people find the perfect boat for their sailing holiday, be it a relaxing island hop, an adventurous Greenland trip or some competitive racing.

With Sail Blue Planet, we can advise you and help you with race charters and cruising charters in Europe, the Caribbean, the USA and Australia as well as Atlantic crossings (including the ARC) and offshore passages. We have also partnered with some expedition type sailing yachts and can organise a stunning and adventurous Arctic trip or off-the-beaten-track sailing adventure.

Our program includes amongst others the following events: