Gargleblaster
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Golden Globe Challenge
The Golden Globe Challenge will be run in 2014 for single handed sailors in cruising boats to circumnavigate the world.
Start from Falmouth at a date to be notified in early September 2014. A practice challenge may be run in 2012 if there is sufficient interest.
The Golden Globe Challenge is run on a ‘gentlemanly basis’ within the following guidelines:
• for displacement sailing vessels.
• human power is the only acceptable alternative propulsion to that of the wind: rowing or clubhauling, for instance, are permissible
• single-handed around the world, leaving the three capes to the North, i.e. Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn
• one way
• stops allowed but not encouraged
• no time limit
• engines may be fitted but only used to charge batteries for equipment such as mobile telephones, steering and navigation systems. The sole exceptions to this, within the spirit of the Golden Globe Challenge, would be the avoidance of an imminent ‘mayday’ situation; responding to a distress call from a fellow seafarer or when within the harbour limits of an intermediate port en route. If the use of an engine - or the acceptance of a powered tow from another vessel, whether a Golden Globe Challenger or not - becomes necessary to meet, for instance, a personal time limit or, simply, to avoid a frustrating calm, then the details should be declared on arrival to fellow Golden Globe Challengers. By common agreement - and using the co-ordinator as an arbitrator if there is no common agreement - the arrival order may then be amended.
• age of skipper to be over 18 years at the start
• no fees
• no inspections
• no regulations: skippers will be entirely responsible for the equipment they take, based on their own experience
• only hint of bureaucracy will be the signing of a form of indemnity accepting the skipper’s full duty of care for him/herself, his/her dependants and his/her fellow seafarers during his/her participation in the Golden Globe Challenge.
• skippers should ensure that they have the correct visa (if required) for entry into any likely mid-way stop
• entries will be accepted up to the day of the start .
Recommendations:
• a 500 mile, non-stop voyage be made in the same vessel with the intended steering system
• at least third party insurance be obtained
Prizes:
Not being a ‘race’ there is no official finishing order - there is of course a time of arrival - thus there are no prizes other than the personal satisfaction of having sailed fairly against peer vessels of a like construction, rig, size, skipper’s experience and so on; ie, a number of personal challenges within the whole. If interested parties wish to donate prizes these should be on the basis of one for every non-stop finisher or one for all participants that complete a single handed circumnavigation.
Further information is available from the Golden Globe Challenge Forum on Yahoo Groups UK. If you wish to subscribe to the group go to
goldenglobechallenge-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
The Golden Globe Challenge will be run in 2014 for single handed sailors in cruising boats to circumnavigate the world.
Start from Falmouth at a date to be notified in early September 2014. A practice challenge may be run in 2012 if there is sufficient interest.
The Golden Globe Challenge is run on a ‘gentlemanly basis’ within the following guidelines:
• for displacement sailing vessels.
• human power is the only acceptable alternative propulsion to that of the wind: rowing or clubhauling, for instance, are permissible
• single-handed around the world, leaving the three capes to the North, i.e. Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn
• one way
• stops allowed but not encouraged
• no time limit
• engines may be fitted but only used to charge batteries for equipment such as mobile telephones, steering and navigation systems. The sole exceptions to this, within the spirit of the Golden Globe Challenge, would be the avoidance of an imminent ‘mayday’ situation; responding to a distress call from a fellow seafarer or when within the harbour limits of an intermediate port en route. If the use of an engine - or the acceptance of a powered tow from another vessel, whether a Golden Globe Challenger or not - becomes necessary to meet, for instance, a personal time limit or, simply, to avoid a frustrating calm, then the details should be declared on arrival to fellow Golden Globe Challengers. By common agreement - and using the co-ordinator as an arbitrator if there is no common agreement - the arrival order may then be amended.
• age of skipper to be over 18 years at the start
• no fees
• no inspections
• no regulations: skippers will be entirely responsible for the equipment they take, based on their own experience
• only hint of bureaucracy will be the signing of a form of indemnity accepting the skipper’s full duty of care for him/herself, his/her dependants and his/her fellow seafarers during his/her participation in the Golden Globe Challenge.
• skippers should ensure that they have the correct visa (if required) for entry into any likely mid-way stop
• entries will be accepted up to the day of the start .
Recommendations:
• a 500 mile, non-stop voyage be made in the same vessel with the intended steering system
• at least third party insurance be obtained
Prizes:
Not being a ‘race’ there is no official finishing order - there is of course a time of arrival - thus there are no prizes other than the personal satisfaction of having sailed fairly against peer vessels of a like construction, rig, size, skipper’s experience and so on; ie, a number of personal challenges within the whole. If interested parties wish to donate prizes these should be on the basis of one for every non-stop finisher or one for all participants that complete a single handed circumnavigation.
Further information is available from the Golden Globe Challenge Forum on Yahoo Groups UK. If you wish to subscribe to the group go to
goldenglobechallenge-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
