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Around the World from West coast?

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jamottep

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If I'm not mistaken the only single handed non stop circumnavigation sailing race/event is the Vendée Globe. This event requires a significant budget.
I think that there are a couple other events this year as well.
Has there been any consideration in the past to host such an event from the US? By the SSS or others? How about looking at the future?
 
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There was an interesting proposal a few years back as I recall for a RTW race from the west coast where you could go nonstop, or pull into port for supplies/crew change - the clock was always ticking. I'm sure someone remembers more.
 
Once upon a time, maybe a decade ago, I cooked up an idea for something that I called the CrossPac. It was a three-leg trip from California to Newcastle, Australia with stops in Hawaii and Samoa. Each leg was roughly 2,000 miles. The hope was to hook up with the Melbourne-Osaka, and then do a race from Japan to California. The whole circuit was to be called "The Rim".

Mighty few people were interested and it fizzled. Also, the timing was very difficult. Melbourne-Osaka starts in March and takes roughly a month/40 days to get to Osaka. If a mid- May race was held from Japan to California, that would be doable. However, a northern-hemisphere-summer race from CA- HI - Samoa - Newcastle puts racers approaching Australia in the southern hemisphere winter, not so good. Then, you have to wait six months to do the Melboure-Osaka event. It just didn't work out, nobody was much interested and that was that.

I might mention that ALL the interest.... ALL of it was from Aussies. ONE US-based boat expressed interest, and they weren't really serious.
 
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Tchoupitoulas said:
There was an interesting proposal a few years back as I recall for a RTW race from the west coast where you could go nonstop, or pull into port for supplies/crew change - the clock was always ticking. I'm sure someone remembers more.
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I believe this might be Jimmy Cornell who was organizing a round the world rally (http://www.yachtingworld.com/news/cornell-launches-global-race-for-amateurs-324). I had signed up to receive the emails for a while, but wasn't ready just yet to leave the dock lines....
 
Judging from the state of that web site ... It's not active much (it's been hacked) ... They were going to charge $20,000 for the race ...

I'm interested :-)

Of course I may feel different after crossing to Hawaii ...

Anyone else? Solo non stop ...
 
Having witnessed what Bruce Schwab went through and had to do to his life to race a 60 foot boat solo around the world twice, I have to say that I'm not interested.

Cruise the Pacific on my own schedule? You bet. Blast around the world as fast as possible, spending millions of dollars in the process? Selling my privacy and marginalizing my integrity to raise the money to do it? No. As in No FF'ing way.
 
Sparrow and I will be departing under the Golden Gate in Nov. 2019.

Apparently there is no location on the US West Coast that makes the trip long enough for an "official" round the world distance, according to the WSSRC. So I will have to keep Hawaii to port on the way out. Not that I'm complaining, but it's weird how "they" came up with the rules.
 
Ragnar said:
Sparrow and I will be departing under the Golden Gate in Nov. 2019.

Apparently there is no location on the US West Coast that makes the trip long enough for an "official" round the world distance, according to the WSSRC. So I will have to keep Hawaii to port on the way out. Not that I'm complaining, but it's weird how "they" came up with the rules.
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Are you trying to break a speed record?
 
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Are you trying to break a speed record?
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No no just make it. I will be quite satisfied to make it without stopping. Part of it is there are only a 40 ft or 60 ft vessel records. My boat is 50. Another part is my low budget, so lithium and high tech sails are out.
 
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No no just make it. I will be quite satisfied to make it without stopping. Part of it is there are only a 40 ft or 60 ft vessel records. My boat is 50. Another part is my low budget, so lithium and high tech sails are out.
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I don't get it. If you claim the record of sailing round the world nonstop in a 50' boat, is that not a record?

rec·ord
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1.
a thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account of an act or occurrence kept in writing or some other permanent form.
"identification was made through dental records"
synonyms: account(s), document(s), documentation, data, file(s), dossier(s), evidence, report(s); More

Wouldn't you then hold the record that others would have to break? It seems to me that a Viking king with a 50' vessel would be an appropriate person to go do this. And surely members of the singlehanded tribe north and south would help support your Go-Fund-A-Singlehanded-Viking effort to some degree. Start early. Smile broadly. From what I have heard, if anybody can do this, it is you.
 
It seems to me nonstop, alone, on a limited budget would be very, very, very hard even if you already had a suitable boat. Attempting to set some sort of speed record? add a couple of verys to that IMO.

As for me, I plan to shoot for the first person to sail the entire SHTP wearing mismatched socks record. The rules are you must wear socks and they must not match, they may be wet or dry. A low res picture of the mismatched socks fitted on the skippers feet must be transmitted to the race committee after each weather download without exception.

This record will be known as the MSR. I assume a suitable trophy will be established in due course.
 
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Somehow I think that guy with the cowboy hat of sorts resonates with me ... However far away I'd be, humanity will still be around me everywhere: in the equipment, the knowledge and communication, even just the possibility of it or a weather forecast. One never is alone ... Always my baggage follows close behind faceted by millions of encounters ...
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We need a "wisdom" corner on this forum. Somehing like Lattitude 38's but for singlehanders specifically.
 
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