The Race is On! Mark Slats rounds Cape Horn and closes the distance on J-LVDH Jean-Luc Van Den Heede predicts a January 23 finish Susie's water shortages Outside assistance? New rule bans position reporting over the HAM and SSB net Susie Goodall - down to 20L of fresh water Jean-Luc Van Den Heede [...]
Jean-Luc Van den Heede, the 73-years young French sailor leading the Golden Globe Race in his Rustler 36 yacht Matmut, rounded Cape Horn last night and is heading north east into the Atlantic at 7.5 knots. Matmut suffered damage to her rigging when the yacht was pitchpoled 3-weeks ago and organisers have been concerned [...]
• Slats injured in knockdown • Susie Goodall faces storm • Igor Zaretskiy suffers broken forestay • Abhilash Tomy undergoes back surgery • Gregor McGuckin arrives home Dutch skipper Mark Slats alerted Race HQ on Monday that his yacht had just suffered two knock-downs in quick succession and that he had [...]
Transatlantic ocean rowing hero Mark Slats secures his place in the Globe as Ohpen becomes his main sponsor Amsterdam, 4 June 2018 – Mark Slats was in need of a main sponsor. He did not have enough funds, having sold his house for his previous adventure, to participate in the greatest, most gruelling round-the-world sailing [...]
