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    The event. The GLOBE 40 is a Round the World race, which is accessible to both informed amateurs and professional skippers. It is a Round the World, which combines competitive performance, adventure and travel, a Round the World whose course takes skippers off the beaten track and offers up some unique stopovers, a Round the World on a craft that is accessible both competitively and financially.

  2. Why iconic Whitbread Round the World race boats are arriving in

    This week, a race featuring boats designed before 1988 and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread Round the World event will sail into Auckland to complete its second leg. It ...

  3. Ocean Globe Race

    The Race. The Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is a fully crewed retro race in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. It marks the 50th anniversary of the original event. It's an eight-month adventure around the world for ordinary sailors on normal yachts. Racing ocean-going GRP production yachts designed before 1988, there will be no ...

  4. Ocean Globe Race

    The Ocean Globe Race takes to the high seas in 2023. Latest News: Translated 9 out with Hull Damage - McIntyre OGR. Time Since Race Start: days hrs mins secs. Home; News; The Race. Overview; Route; Race Rules; FAQs; Sponsors; Globe Yacht Club; Notice of Race; O°G°R Forum; Support the Race; 2027; History. 1970s. 1973-74 Edition; 1977-78 ...

  5. Ocean Globe Race 2023: everything you need to know

    The Ocean Globe Race is a round-the-world yacht race, held to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973. ... The third leg - 8,370 miles - is from Auckland, New Zealand to Punta del Este, Uruguay. It starts on 14 January 2024. The first boats are expected to finish between 9-18 February 2024.

  6. Ocean Globe Race

    Starting in Southampton in September 2023, the OGR is a 27,000-mile sprint around the globe, spread across four legs, taking in the Southern Ocean and the three Great Capes. Stopovers will include Cape Town, Auckland and Punta del Este, before finishing back in the UK in April 2024. To win the OGR challenge is to be first in class or handicap ...

  7. The Ocean Race confirms its return to Auckland

    The next edition of The Ocean Race will take place in 2022-23. Find out more. The Ocean Race will come to Auckland, New Zealand, during the next edition of the fully-crewed, round the world race. As The Ocean Race approaches its 50th anniversary, the event will be returning to New Zealand for the 12th time. All but one of those stops have been ...

  8. Round the world like it's 1973

    The racers are circumnavigating the globe with the technology level of 1973, in honour of the 50th anniversary of its first incarnation as the Whitbread Round the World Race. That means sextants, paper charts and fax machines instead of GPS, iPhones and computers. One hundred and thirty-two racers are coming through Auckland after around a ...

  9. Back to the future: Ocean global race comes to Auckland

    The event celebrates 50 years since the first Whitbread Round the World yacht race using technology and yachts employed in those early days. ... 17-year-old Ryder Ellis of Auckland, is on board ...

  10. The Ocean Race announces its return to Auckland, the spiritual home of

    The Ocean Race will come to Auckland, New Zealand, during the 2021-22 edition of the fully-crewed, round the world race. As The Ocean Race approaches its 50th anniversary, the event will be returning to New Zealand for the 12th time. All but one of those stops have been in Auckland, the City of Sails.

  11. Ocean Globe Race: Roaring into Auckland >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News

    The OGR, a race celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Whitbread Round the World Race, means Translated 9's triumphant return to Auckland is particularly poignant. The yacht and her crew have deep ...

  12. 2023 Ocean Globe Race set to be the World's biggest ever

    The clear expectation is that a full fleet of 34 yachts, sailed by professional and amateur, mixed gender crews, will cross the start line on Sept. 10th 2023. If so, the OGR is set to become the largest ever, crewed, round-the-world race! Starting in Europe, the Four Leg, 28,000-mile race around the globe, via the three Capes, will stop over in ...

  13. Ocean Globe Leg 2, The Italians roar into Auckland finish

    The OGR, a race celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Whitbread Round the World Race, means Translated 9's triumphant return to Auckland is particularly poignant. The yacht and her crew have deep historical connections to the Whitbread and Auckland. In 1977, she sailed into the city under the name ADC Accutrac, skippered by Claire Francis, the ...

  14. Sail-World NZ: Nov 10

    A round-the-world yacht race is headed to Auckland. The Ocean Globe Race fleet left Cape Town on Sunday, headed for the Southern Ocean on the traditional Whitbread Round the World Race course. The event has attracted a fleet of 14 boats - it's billed as a fully crewed retro race in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race.

  15. Ocean Globe Race: Festive arrivals >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News

    The 2023-24 Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is a fully crewed, retro race, in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race, marking the 50th Anniversary of the original event. Racing without ...

  16. Ocean Globe Race

    Party time for Translated 9 at the prize giving at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. Credit: OGR2023/Jacqueline Kavanagh. It was an emotional evening at Jellicoe Harbour in Auckland last night as old friends and sailing 'rivals' gathered for a historic Whitbread Reunion - celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first race.

  17. Ocean Globe Race

    The Ocean Globe Race is currently enjoying an Auckland stopover, after the lead boats finished Leg 2 in mid-December. The "no technology" event has attracted 14 entries - double that of recent fully crewed around the world races. Five of the boats competing in the "Flyer" class are past Whitbread Round the World Race competitors - Pen Duick VI ...

  18. Ocean Globe Race: chasing dreams >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing

    The 2023-24 Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is a fully crewed, retro race, in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race, marking the 50th Anniversary of the original event.

  19. Volvo Ocean Race Around the World

    The City of Sails is perfectly situated for a stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race Around the World. Auckland has been a host for nearly all of the races since its inception in 1973. A gruelling test of skill and endurance, the Volvo Ocean Race is the world's longest and most challenging yacht race, and is often considered the world's most ...

  20. Stopover for global race boats

    The New Zealand Herald. Stopover for global race boats. 2023-12-12 - — Christophe­r Reive. Half a century ago, 19 yachts set out from Portsmouth, England, in a race around the world. The race featured just three stops, three sailors died after being swept overboard and the winners took 152 days to finish. It has many known by many names ...

  21. Ocean Globe Race

    This retro Ocean Globe Race (OGR) takes to the high seas with 14 teams on September 10th from Ocean Village, following the same route as the clipper ships and the inaugural 1973 Whitbread Race in similar, affordable yachts. The Ocean Globe Race is the future of accessible around the world ocean yacht racing for any sailor and has a huge future.

  22. New Zealand to host round the world yacht race

    The SolOceans yacht race is the first solo round the world yacht race to use identical yachts and will be held every two years. Competitors will sail in sixteen metre, single hull yachts. "New Zealand is a leading sailing nation with a proud history of achievement in other round the world yacht races, and the America's Cup.

  23. Ocean Globe Race

    Credit: Ocean Village Southampton. On 10 September 2023, over 160 sailors will depart Ocean Village onboard the 15 yachts to complete the four leg, 30,000 mile race around the world via the three great capes; Africa's Cape of Good Hope, Australia's Cape Leeuwin, and South America's notorious Cape Horn.