1993–1994 Whitbread Round the World Race

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The 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race was the sixth edition of the around-the-world sailing event. The race was won by Grant Dalton the maxi 'New Zealand Endeavour'.

As with prior races, the 1993-1994 Whitbread was run to "mixed class" rules. However a new purpose built Whitbread boat—the W60 was introduced. As with previous years a handicap was applied to different boats based on their race rating. Some W60 competitors were not keen on running both Maxis and W60s together once it became evident some of the old Maxis were only as fast as the W60 class. Some W60 competitors wished to ban Maxis, however this was never realistic given the large investments the Maxi owners had made in the expectation of being able to race. There were also concerns over whether enough new W60 boats would be ready.

Despite the closeness of the finishes, some W60 skippers claimed to be in a 'completely different boat race' to Grant Dalton skippering a maxi.

Participants[]

Boat	Nation	Class	Skipper
Brooksfield	Italy	Whitbread 60
	Spain	Maxi	Lawrie Smith
Heineken	United States	Whitbread 60	Dawn Riley
Hetman Sahaidachny	Ukraine	Whitbread 60	Eugene Platon
Galicia '93 Pescanova	Spain	Whitbread 60
Intrum Justitia	Europe	Whitbread 60	Roger Nilson Lawrie Smith
La Poste	France	Maxi	Éric Tabarly
	United Kingdom	Maxi
NZ Endeavour	New Zealand	Maxi	Grant Dalton
Reebok/Dolphin Youth	United Kingdom	Whitbread 60	Matthew Humphries
Tokio	Japan	Whitbread 60	Chris Dickson
Odessa	Ukraine	Whitbread 60
	Uruguay	Maxi
Winston	United States	Whitbread 60	Dennis Conner Brad Butterworth
Yamaha	Japan	Whitbread 60	Ross Field

• Intrum Justitia was originally skippered by Roger Nilson, who was injured on the first leg.^[1]

Route[]

Race route

Event	Start date	Start	Finish	Distance (nmi)	Winner
Leg 1	25 September 1993	Southampton	Punta del Este	5,938	NZ Endeavour
Leg 2	13 November 1993	Punta del Este	Fremantle	7,558	Intrum Justitia
Leg 3	8 January 1994	Fremantle	Auckland	3,272	NZ Endeavour
Leg 4	19 February 1994	Auckland	Punta del Este	5,914	NZ Endeavour
Leg 5	2 April 1994	Punta del Este	Fort Lauderdale	5,475	Yamaha
Leg 6	21 May 1994	Fort Lauderdale	Southampton	3,818	Tokio

Results[]

Maxi yachts[]

broke its mast twice in the first 24 hours of the race, and ended up retiring.^[2][3]

Whitbread 60[]

Legend: RET – Retired; ^[1]

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