ocean adventure WITH DON McINTYRE OPPOSITE The 2018 Golden Globe Race honours CLOCKWISE FROM TOP Not a Volvo RTW racer the solo circumnavigation achievement of Sir but our Tradewind 35 is a solid Southern Ocean Robin Knox-Johnston way back in 1968. If you boat nonetheless. That keel will not fall off and aren't up for that, you can join Sir Robin at Clipper will help her track steady in surfing conditions; Ventures in a fully crewed race around the world! Route of the 2018 Golden Globe Race; Jane and (pic © Clipper Ventures) me happy to be sailing our T35 for the first time. On June 14, 2018, a fleet of years ago. He will follow the though, including satellite approved for the race and up to 20 production yachts race online. tracking and can talk to race others may be considered. ranging in size from 32 to This anniversary edition headquarters on a satellite I will enter this race in Green 36ft, each skippered by a of the Golden Globe Race phone, but no-one else. my 1993 Tradewind 35, for Golden unique individual, will follow is for real sailors and Talking to family is by radio purchased last year for Robin Knox-Johnston sailing adventurers who don’t have only! $58,000. I think a Biscay 36 It’S OFFICIAL! THE SOLO ROUND-THE-WORLD 2018 GOLDEN GLOBE Suhaili across the start line $1 million. They will have The fibreglass production is probably faster and has RACE IS A Goer … SO WHAt’S STOPPING YOU FROM ENTERING? of the 2018 Golden Globe no computers on board, no yachts entered must be the advantage of a ketch rig Race, in Falmouth, England. electric autopilots, in fact no designed prior to 1988 with to help balance the boat if hen Neil around the world in his little just want to do a solo are only so many defining It will be exactly 50 years electronics at all, no GPS, no a minimum displacement of windvanes are challenged. Armstrong 32-foot ketch Suhaili. He circumnavigation facing moments that present as to the day since Robin set radar, no watermakers, no 6500kg and have a full keel Certainly a Cape Dory 36 stepped was the only finisher in the your own personal challenge opportunities for those who off, the yachts then racing digital cameras or clocks, no with the rudder fitted to its could be a wild card in the onto the 1968 Sunday Times Golden and adventure. Maybe you dare. Suhaili’s virtual times, iPod and no carbon fibre. trailing edge. A minimum event as they are quite fast! moon in Globe Race, often referred to want to race but cannot nonstop around the world They will have a sextant, a series production of 20 I have told a few friends W1969, the world stood still. as A Voyage for Madmen, compete at the current elite IT’S ON! via the great capes and try wind-up ship’s chronometer, yachts from the one builder over the past months Just three months earlier, after the book of the same level and their astronomical Last month in this column, to beat him. A perpetual windvane self-steering, is also required. Many may about this race and now British sailor Sir Robin name. budgets. To date more I couldn’t reveal the details. trophy and £UK75,000 towed Walker ship’s log, be surprised at this solo they are looking for Knox-Johnston did the same. Have you ever dreamt astronauts have gone into Now I can and 2018 offers maybe up for grabs. Robin barograph, HF radios, film race around the world in boats? Preliminary sailing He stood still for the first of sailing in his footsteps space than solo sailors have the ultimate challenge and will return that night to cameras, cassette tapes and such boats, not usually instructions and race rules time in 312 days, becoming or maybe those of Jessica circumnavigated the planet, a life-changing adventure steak and chips with a cool move under Dacron sails considered race yachts, but will be posted on July 1 this the first person ever to sail Watson or Bernard so it is not for everyone. for any sailor interested. Is beer, the things he missed just as Robin did. They will neither was Suhaili. Eight year. All the details are now singlehanded and non-stop Moitessier? Maybe you In a lifetime though, there that you? most for 312 days all those have modern safety gear designs have currently been at GoldenGlobeRace.com 164 tradeaboat.com.au The boat you want is now easier to find tradeboats.com.au 165 ocean adventure CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE LEFT With the engine back in the boat, laughed; Ice, my ultimate adventure ship is for sale; Sir Robin is we decided on an adjustment to the decompression lever, but a excited about the anniversary Golden Globe Race and will sail the "Have you ever dreamt of sailing in his simple slip dropped a tiny Allen key past the cams down into the restored Suhaili across the start line in 2018; Having sailed with wire engine! Frank from Lacey Marine Engineering and I both looked at and quadrant, I really like solid-link steering; The beginning of a each other shocked ... we couldn’t run the engine and feared having nightmare. Nothing had been opened for years and corroded solid. footsteps or maybe those of Jessica Watson to pull it out again and strip it. He mucked around with a magnet and The grey mess behind the brake held important bearings, so we just after 20 minutes, about to give up, he got it on the last try. We smashed it to pieces and machined new housings to fit new bearings. or Bernard Moitessier?" So if you have ever had have circumnavigated once I have to refit and get her replaced, along with all perfect. We refitted the lot Slipping confirmed $100,000 (sans entry fees the very first time. Wowow! that dream … don’t listen to before in 1990, which gives back there to start this new hoses, so as precautions we covered in Denso tape – my thoughts about how and other logistics), a far the people who tell you that me the 8000 miles sailing solo adventure. She is in fitted new HP and LP fuel $2500. Will it do the race? strong these types of cry from the $750,000 we GOODBYE/BUY ICE you cannot do it or should and at least 2000 miles solo- excellent condition and was lines, fuel lift pump, control Very definitely, especially long-keel yachts are. Their spent competing in the 1990 The decision is made! Our not do it or can’t afford to do sailing experience required built well by the designer- cables, engine hour meter when using a Hydrovane encapsulated lead keels will BOC Challenge solo around- 15.2m expedition support it ... just maybe you should to enter. I now have more builder John Rock, as his and checked everything, self-steering system which never fall off and the rudder the-world yacht race. I'll use vessel Ice is now officially consider this as something than three years to prepare own personal dream boat. repainted and refitted the lot requires the main steering is well supported with three the Walker towing log from up for sale. There is no other you can’t afford not to do, me and the boat and get us Returning from Antarctica – $5000! Will I use it for the gear and rudder to be locked. separate bearings. They are my first boat Skye in 1975, boat in the world quite like because you may not be to England. This should be this summer I managed to race or fit a new one? I think The 22-year-old Proctor known to track well during the sextant I got for my 21st her. It was a hard decision here in another 50 years? plenty of time, but I already spend three weeks on board it will be fine. mast and boom are in ocean crossings. When birthday and the ham radio but in a few years we have I will give Sir Robin the feel rushed. There are plenty in Pittwater-NSW cleaning, The steering was next. perfect condition, something we replaced a section of used in my BOC entry. I new plans and I don't want last word on the subject: of “other” things going on sorting and getting to know It is a Whitlock solid-link that really surprised damaged teak cap on the reckon this race will be as to see her sit doing nothing. “The world is full of those in my life right now, so I her. She is a “keeper”. system, very strong and me. It is also built to a bulwark, I was again blown much fun, if not more than We are on the hunt for who’d hate you to achieve, am already dreaming of On this sort of adventure simple. The pedestal had Southern Ocean spec with away by the heavy build my last. someone who understands because they’ve done those long months at sea I need to know everything not been opened in years great engineering and quality. When displacements The fleet should be and needs the special nothing and they’ll try and in 2018, without internet or about anything on board and had corroded shut, so components, so to my great hit 8.6t, they have no need to closely matched, though features only Ice can offer put you off.