2022 Golden Globe Race

2022 Golden Globe Race
Event Title
Edition	3rd
Event Details
Venue	Les Sables-d'Olonne
Dates	4 September 2022
Yachts	'Retro' fibreglass 32-36ft
Competitors
Competitors	30
	← 2018

The 2022 edition of the Golden Globe Race will have 20 entrants in the Suhaili class and 10 entries in the Joshua Class. The events start in a UK port on 26 July 2022 when GGR entrants assemble ahead of a SITraN Challenge Race bound for a port in France, starting on Sunday 31 July 2022. The GGR Race Village will open in France on 6 August 2022. The Golden Globe Race will start from a port in France on Sunday 21 August 2022. This date commemorates the anniversary of Bernard Moitessier setting off in the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race on 22 August 1968.^[1]

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)

Twenty-two classes were approved, with one exception to the rules made for a wood-epoxy Suhaili replica (the Suhaili being the yacht that Knox-Johnston sailed in 1968).^[4]

In the 2022 GGR, two "classes" of entrant boats are available:

"Suhaili" - 20 entrants, sailing boats meeting the 2018 GGR specification.
"Joshua" - 10 entrants, sailing boats built in Turkey by ASBOAT for McIntyre Adventure Ltd. Details and specifications are at [1].

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 several "film gates" along the route, where the skippers can be interviewed as they sail past without stopping and where they can pass over films and letters.^[5]

Entrants[]

Entrants listed as of 27 December 2021:


	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	Daniel Gatt	Zazuela	Biscay 36
5	David Scott Cowper		Tradewind 35
6	Edward Walentynowicz	Noah’s Jest	Rustler 36
7	Elliott Smith		GaleForce 34
8	Ertan Beskardes	Lazy Otter	Rustler 36
9	Gaurav Shinde	Good Hope	Flying Dutchman/Baba 35
10	Graham Dalton	Matmut	Rustler 36
11	Guido Cantini	Hannah of Cowes	Vancouver 34
12	Guy deBoer	Keys 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	Marc Cambounet	Bahdlu	Rustler 36
18	Mark Sinclair^[6]	Coconut	Lello 34
19	Matthew Wright		Rustler 36
20	Michael Guggenberger	Nina	Biscay 36
21	Mike Smith	Pingo	Suhaili Replica
22	Pat Lawless		Saltram Saga 36
23	Robin Davie	C’est La Vie	Rustler 36
24	Robin Davie	C’est La Vie	Rustler 36
25	Simon Curwen	Clara	Biscay 36
26	Confidential	Confidential	Confidential
27	Tapio Lehtinen	Asteria	Gaia 36