Solo Sailors Face Doldrums, Equipment Failures and Avian Invaders in Unprecedented Small Boat Challenge – week five of leg 2
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- Build your boat – Sail your boat – The extreme dream coming true for 15 unique adventurous sailors!
- ALMA Globe 580’s – fast little critters averaging 126 mile days on an historically slow Panama/Marquesas passage of 4300 miles averaging 5.25kts for 34 days, proving the pundits wrong!
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It’s fair to say the world first McIntyre Mini Globe Race is well on its way to proving a point. You do not need huge budgets to chase dreams, or race solo around the world and that “ SMALL BOAT – HUGE ADVENTURE” is an apt motto ! The 15 strong fleet of ALMA Globe 580’s has now completed a 3600 mile Transatlantic qualifier from Marina De Lagos in Portugal to the National Sailing Academy in Antigua. They then set off on a 24,400mile solo race around the world in five legs. Leg one, 1200 miles to Panama and then leg two, 7300 miles to Fiji. Right now all 15 skippers are living life large!! What follows is a small piece of their amazing story, five weeks from Panama as they arrive in the Marquesas 4300 miles out !
Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands – The second leg of the Mini Globe Race (MGR) from Panama to Fiji has evolved into one of the most extraordinary small boat sailing challenges ever undertaken, with the international fleet of identical 19-foot plywood ALMA Globe 580 yachts now generally spread across 1000 nautical miles of Pacific Ocean. As the lead boats arrive in the Marquesas after 34 grueling days at sea, their stories reveal a tapestry of human resilience, ingenuity and occasional absurdity against the vast Pacific backdrop.
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