Linus Wilson's Blog, page 12
October 22, 2018
Susie Goodall knocked down 3 times in the last 24 hours in the Golden Globe Race
In her latest call with Golden Globe Race headquarters, Susie Goodall said that she could only sail a beam reach with her broken wind vane. In the confused 9-meter seas that she has been experiencing, she said that her boat had been knocked down three times in the last 24 hours. The 28-year-old, solo sailor hopes to use lighter weather or the film drop in Hobart in a little over a week to repair the inner workings of the broken wind vane steering gear. Earlier in the week her 36-foot sailboat was swamped in a knockdown with the companionway hatch open.
Below is part of the day 113 press release from the Golden Globe Race Headquarters, which describes her ordeal with a cyclonic storm a week ago:
In a satphone call to Race HQ today, British skipper Susie Goodall spoke for the first time about a ‘horrendous’ few days when her Rustler 36 yacht DHL Starlight was caught in a horrific Southern Ocean storm some 250 miles south of Cape Leeuwin, Australia.
The storm developed just as suddenly and with the same ferocity as the one that led to Gregor McGuckin and Abhilash Tomy being rolled and dismasted two weeks ago. “The storm really kicked in between 9 PM and 9 AM I had 70-knot winds and 13-metre seas. They were nasty…practically vertical with breaking crests. I don’t know how we got through it. My self-steering broke and I had to hand-steer for 7 hours. We suffered several knock-downs and I feared that we might get rolled at any time.”
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Susie explained that everything was soaked through above and below deck including bunk cushions and her sleeping back. “I definitely lost some weight during the storm because I couldn’t leave the helm to eat and I am now constantly cold and can’t get warm.”
Her hands suffered particularly. “I’ve never had such soft hands” she joked, adding “They are not a pretty sight. They are covered in sores and cuts, and now taped up to keep the salt out.“
With the storm closing in around her, Susie took the decision to turn around and head back west and get herself in the better sector. She didn’t escape the big winds but at least she had them hitting her from one direction only before passing overhead. What did for McGuckin and Tomy were the countering seas caused by the winds swinging through 180°. As a result, Susie may well boast that she is the first solo sailor to have passed by Cape Leeuwin three times during a circumnavigation! “I’m just glad the boat is still going.” She admitted.
The storm has now passed but left an ugly sea, making it impossible for the moment to repair her wind vane self-steering. “It’s working but not very well. It will only hold a course on a beam reach, so I am having to hand steer with little sail up at the moment.”
With 1,000 miles to go to the Boatshed.com Hobart film drop, Susie is predicting an ETA on November 1st.
Sailing the Eagle Barque: America’s Tall Ship is Training USCG Cadets
The USCG Cutter Eagle Barque is America’s tall ship sailboat. You will see and hear the story of how this amazing tall ship and square rigger, the USCGC Eagle is manned by U.S. Coast Guard Cadets sailing the seven seas. Hear the story of how it became the only active duty tall ship sailing vessel in the U.S. military.
From the USCG press kit:
“ABOUT CGC BARQUE EAGLE USCGC
…This Eagle was built in 1936 by the Blohm and Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, and originally commissioned as Horst Wessel in 1936. Originally operated by Germany to train cadets for the German Navy, the ship was a reparation for the United States after World War II. In 1946, a U.S. Coast Guard crew – aided by the German crew still on board – sailed the tallship from Bremerhaven to its new homeport in New London, Connecticut. Eagle returned to Bremerhaven for the first time since World War II in the summer of 2005, to an enthusiastic welcome.
Built during the twilight era of sail, the design and construction of Eagle embody centuries of development in the shipbuilder’s art. Te hull is steel, four-tenths of an inch thick. There are two full-length steel decks with a platform deck below. The raised forecastle and quarterdeck are made of three-inch thick teak over steel, as are the weather decks. Eagle eagerly takes to the elements for which she was designed. Effortlessly and gracefully, she drives under full sail in the open ocean at speeds up to 17.5 knots. Currently Eagle’s homeport is the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland, as part of a Service Life Extension Project that will keep the ship away from its standard homeport of New London, Connecticut, for several years. At the end of this restoration period Eagle will return to New London, where she will rest along the pier on the Tames River near the Coast Guard Academy when not on a training sail.
Te Coast Guard Academy was originally founded in 1876 when nine students boarded the Revenue Cutter Dobbin. Approximately 1,000 men and women attend the Academy each year, all of whom will sail at one time or another on America’s only active duty square-rigger…
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To maneuver Eagle under sail, the crew must handle more than 22,000 square feet of sail and five miles of rigging. Over 200 lines control the sails and yards; every crewmember, cadet and officer candidate must become intimately familiar with the name, operation, and function of each line.
A permanent crew of eight offcers and 50 enlisted personnel maintain the ship year round. They provide a strong base of knowledge and seamanship for the training of up to 150 cadets or officer candidates at a time. On the decks and in the rigging of Eagle, young men and women get a taste of salty air and life at sea. They are tested and challenged, often to the limits of endurance. Working aloft, they meet fear and learn to overcome it. ”
CURTIS BAY, BALTIMORE, MD, UNITED STATES
10.01.2018
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Lally
U.S. Coast Guard District 7
The cutter Eagle serves as a training vessel for Coast Guard Academy cadets and candidates from the Officer Candidate School. It is the only active-duty sailing vessel in America’s military, and one of only two commissioned sailing vessels, along with the USS Constitution.
U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Lally
AT SEA
Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Masaschi
U.S. Coast Guard District 5 PADET Baltimore
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Masaschi
U.S. Coast Guard District 5 PADET Baltimore
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class William Colclough
U.S. Coast Guard District 1
Video by Telfair Brown
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters
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October 21, 2018
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede has a 14-day lead on his nearest competitor Mark Slats
What we learned from the “film drop” in Hobart of Dutch sailor Mark Slats on day 111 of the Golden Globe was that he was way behind race leader French skipper Jean-Luc Van Den Heede. Van Den Heede made the mandatory film drop in Hobart on day 97 of the 2018 Golden Globe Race. Hobart roughly the half-way point for the 30,000 mile non-stop solo unassisted race.
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Photo caption: 2018 Golden Globe Race. Mark Slats and his Rustler 36 OPHEN MAVERICK photographed off Lanzarote, Canaries during the compulsory film drop off Marina Rubicon on 15th June 2018. The yacht suffered several knockdowns and was flooded during a storm in the South Indian Ocean (approx 1,900 miles SW of Perth, Australia) on 21st September. The Dutch sailor also reported a fire on board which he extinguished.
The fact that the two-meter-tall Dutchman did not use the occasion to drop out because of a bruised or broken rib that was still bothering him tells us that Van Den Heede is only two weeks ahead of his closest competitor. (Slats can’t have the rib X-rayed because that would constitute assistance in the solo, unassisted round the world race.) We explored why Van Den Heede was a class above the rests of the field thus far in the video below:
Otherwise, the Slats visit to Hobart lacked most of the interesting snippets of stories about his trials of knockdowns, fires on board, being washed overboard, and flying toolboxes, which have been coming out of the GGR headquarters of late. What a pity!
To be fair, the fact that Golden Globe Race could send out anyone at all to talk to him was a miracle because they were in the process of arranging a rescue for another racer, Loic Lepage whose boat was filling with water.
Rescue for GGR’s Lepage 210 nm away–water rushing into yacht
Loïc Lepage’s dismasted yacht Laaland is taking on more water, but the Golden Globe Race (GGR) sailor, who pulled his emergency beacon, an EPIRB, on UTC 16:30 October 20, 2018, has rescuers on his way. SV Alizes II skipper Francis Tolan is 210 nautical miles north northwest of Lepage on early October 21, 2018, UTC. Originally, Lepage was taking on 30 liters (8 gallons) of water per hour, but that leak has intensified and he says that the boat is taking on 160 liters (40 gallons) per hour. That puts Tolan one-to-two days away from Lepage’s striken yacht. The Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) in Australia has also diverted the Japanese-flagged, 289-meter cargo ship to Lepage’s position roughly 600 nautical miles southwest of Perth, Australia. Both the 289-meter cargo ship and the 43-foot sailboat are due to arrive at Lepage’s 32-foot yacht on local time Tuesday, October 23, 2018.
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Caption: 2018 Golden Globe Race – Loïc Lepage (FRA) Nicholson 32 Laaland passing through the Marina Rubicon ‘Gate’ off Lanzarote in the Canaries. Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR
The French sailor Lepage has been unable to fully cut away his mast and rigging contrary to earlier reports posted on the GGR Facebook page. In a more recent post GGR wrote, “JRCC Australia Challenger aircraft flew Overhead Loic Lepage today and spoke with him and observed the mast in the water acting as a sea anchor.” That implies that he has not set up a jury rig, because a sea anchor would defeat the purpose of setting a jury rig. Lepage has been able to start the engine after some early failures according to the GGR Facebook page. Nevertheless, the SV Laaland cannot speed its intercept with rescuers with the mast and sails dragging in the water.
Below is the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) JRCC’s plan for the rescue:
“EXECUTION:
15. JRCC AUSTRALIA INTENDS TO UTILISE SHIOSAI/3FHW5 AND SV ALIZES II AS SURFACE RESCUE ASSETS. IT IS THE INTENTION TO DETERMINE THE BEST RESCUE ASSET TO CONDUCT THE TRANSFER OF LOIC FROM LAALAND/F4KKR IN DUE COURSE, DEPENDANT UPON WEATHER CONDITIONS ON-SCENE AND RELATIVE ETA’S OF RESCUE ASSETS ON-SCENE. JRCC AUSTRALIA INTENDS TO KEEP STOKER/VJN4918 ON STAND-BY UNTIL AM MON 22 OCT 18 WHEN A DECISION WILL BE MADE BASED ON A RE-ASSESSMENT OF WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THEN PROGRESS OF SHIOSAI/3FHW5 AND SV ALIZES II OVERNIGHT.
16. RAAF P8 CALLSIGN RSCU251 WILL FLY DIRECT FROM LEARMONTH TO THE DISTRESS POSITION WITH AN ETA OF 220030UTC OCT 18.
17. AMSA AIRCRAFT RSCU440, CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT VH-IEJ AND RSCU251 HAVE ALL BEEN TASKED TO PROVIDE AIR OVERWATCH AS REQUIRED FROM NOW UNTIL THE COMPLETION OF THE OPERATION. FURTHER SPECIFIC AIRCRAFT TASKINGS WILL BE PROVIDED WHEN CONFIRMED.”
Tolan’s yacht SV Alizes II is a 43-foot Oceanis sailboat from a competing solo-around the event to the 2018 Golden Globe Race, the Longue Route 2018. Tolan’s last port was Le Bono, France on June 18, 2018. The Longue Route commemorates Bernard Moitessier’s 1968 to 1969 trip from Plymouth, England to Tahiti, which involved going around the Southern Ocean one-and-a-half times solo-nonstop. The Longue Route website says it had seventeen participants departing from any Atlantic port above 45 degrees north.
That is almost identical to the eighteen participants that departed Les Sables-d’Olonne, France on July 1, 2018, in the 2018 solo-nonstop, unassisted Golden Globe Race for 32-to-36-foot sailboats. Only eight GGR skippers were still in the main race at the time of writing. Lepage was the only sailor in the Chichester class for boats that make one unsanctioned stop in Cape Town. Lepage ran out of drinking water, due to lack of rain showers experienced in the Doldrums and South East Trades. He also reported problems with his radio and was unable to pick up weather forecasts prior to stopping in Cape Town.
Most of the remaining participants in 32-to-36-foot sailboats in the GGR are less than half-way finished. Indeed, when Lepage set off his EPIRB, there were two participants that had been rescued (Abhilash Tomy and Gregor McGuckin) and two participants who set off EPIRB’s (Tomy and Lepage). Only one person had reached the half-way point (Jean-Luc Van Den Heede) in the Golden Globe Race when Lepage signaled for rescue. Since then, a second participant Mark Slatts had reached the half-way point in Hobart, Australia. Lepage’s boat is the third to be dismasted. All the dismastings have happened since the boats entered the stormy Southern Ocean which encompasses the south Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
Several other GGR 2018 skippers have recently faced voyage ending challenges, fourth place Susie Goodhall and second place Mark Slatts have sailed through violent cyclonic storms and been knocked down. Eighth place Russian skipper Igor Zaretskiy lost his forestay a few days ago, which could lead to loss of his yacht’s mast. The 1968 to 1969 Golden Globe Race only had one finisher out of nine participants.
Dr. Linus Wilson is the author of How to Sail Around the World Part-Time and two other sailing books. He holds a USCG “six-pack” captain’s license and is the creator of the Slow Boat Sailing YouTube Channel and Podcast.
October 20, 2018
Breaking: EPIRB activated by French GGR sailor.
Loic Lepage is the second sailor to activate his EPIRB in the 2018 Golden Globe Race for small sailing yachts on October 20, 2018, UTC. Lepage’s 32-foot yacht was taking on 30 liters of water per hour after its broken mast punched a hole in its hull before Lepage could cut it away. The French sailor lost his rig in 25-knot winds and 3-meter seas earlier on October 20, 2018, UTC. Lepage rested after removing the broken mast awaiting daylight on October 21, 2018, local time before activating his EPIRB with consultation with rescue coordinators in Australia. At the present time, his pumps are able to keep up with the water flow and he is believed to have a life raft on board.
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Pictured above, French GGR skipper Loic Lepage was sailing his Nicholson 32 Mk 10 yacht LAALAND. Photo by Benjamin BRION/PPL/GGR.
He was approximately 600 miles southwest of Perth, Australia, drifting northeast at about 1 knot late on UTC October 20, 2018. His last known position was 39 degrees 1.117 minutes south and 104 degrees 1.67 minutes east. Lepage’s boat has a tracker that updates every thirty minutes. The closest Golden Globe Race participant was 480 miles downwind. Thus, his best prospects for rescue are likely from a non-race participant. There are several boats participating in the Longue Route event, which is a non-stop around the world rally to commemorate Bernard Moitessier’s participation in the 1968 Golden Globe Race. Several are downwind and closer to Loic Lepage than Istavan Kopar of the United States, who is the closest Golden Globe Race participant to Lepage. You can see their positions relative to the Golden Globe Racers here.
In the first 111 days of the race only one other sailor has set off his EPIRB, Indian Naval Commander Abhilash Tomy. The later suffered a dismasting in a violent storm that also gave Cmdr. Tomy a severe and debilitating back injury. Two other boats have been dismasted. Gregor McGuckin’s boat was dismasted in the same storm that Tomy’s was with 70-knot winds and up to 15-meter seas. He opted for rescue as his boat was close to Tomy’s when a multinational rescue effort reached the Indian sailor. Are Wiig of Norway sailed his dismasted boat into Cape Town under jury rig.
Eighteen sailors set out on the 2018 non-stop, solo, unsupported, around the world sailing race in July 1, 2018. Only eight were still in the main race at the time of writing. Lepage was the only sailor in the Chichester class for boats that make one unsanctioned stop in Cape Town. Lepage ran out of drinking water, due to lack of rain showers experienced in the Doldrums and South East Trades. He also reported problems with his radio and was unable to pick up weather forecasts. The stop in Cape Town to make repairs and replenish his stores knocked him out of the 2018 Golden Globe Race into the Chichester class competition.
Most of the remaining participants in 32-to-36-foot sailboats are less than half-way finished. The 1968 Golden Globe Race only had one finisher out of nine participants.
Here is the statement from the GGR Facebook page:
DISTRESS RE: Golden Globe Race CODE RED Vessel LAALAND Loic Lepage EPIRB ACTIVATED In DISTRESS.
At 1810UTC 20th Loic rang GGR to advise he was concerned about 30l of water every hour entering the boat from an area that he cannot easily access. His pumps are working and he can keep up with the flow for now. GGR then contacted JRCC in Canberra Australia to advise that Loic will activate his EPIRB in the next 15 minutes. After considering options he has decided to activate his EPIRB.
The last position received at 1900UTC was 39 1.117S and 104. 1.67E making 1.2K on 45T. Positions now being received every 30 MInutes on the GGR LIVE tracker https://goldengloberace.com/livetracker/
Nearest GGR Entrant with an engine is Itvan Kopar 480 miles downwind to the east. Strong westerly winds will mean it is unlikely he will be able to haed west for the next 24 hrs. There may be other yachts to the west of LAALAND in an event called the LONG ROUTE. GGR are endeavouring to make contact with the roganisers to discover the MSSI Number of thoise yachts and their positions from AIS #GGR2018
Lepage Dismasted 600nm from Perth–4th Golden Globe Race boat to lose its rig.
The Golden Globe Race is the toughest race in sailing. Over twenty percent of the boats have been dismasted, and it’s not even half-way over. The fourth was Loic Lepage of France who lost his rig 600 nautical miles southwest of Perth, Australia on October 20, 2018, UTC. Lepage was one of eighteen competitors starting the solo, retro sailing race around the world in France on July 1, 2018. Four sailboats so far have lost their masts 111 days into the race. Only one skipper has made it to the halfway point in Hobart, Australia, at the time of writing.
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Caption: Are Wiig (58) sailing his Olle Enderlin designed OE32 named Olleanna arriving in Cape Town Sunday, Sept 2. He was on August 27, 2018 400 miles SW of Cape Town in the 2018 Golden Globe Race. Photo Credit: Eban Human/PPL/GGR
Lepage has cut away the mast, but there may be some hull damage. He told Golden Globe Race headquarters that he was too tired to set up a jury rig, prior to 50 knot storm conditions which were descending upon him. He plans to sail under jury rig to Fremantle, Australia. He was sailing in three meter waves and 25-knot winds when his rig failed.
Are Wiig of Norway was the first skipper to lose his mast on the way to the Cape of Good Hope. Wiig sailed into Cape Town under jury rig. The second and third skippers to lose their masts were Gregor McGuckin and Abhilash Tomy, who lost their rigs in a violent cyclonic storm with 15-meter seas. Both McGuckin and Tomy were rescued by the FPV Osiris after Tomy sustained a debilitating back injury in the storm.
Lepage is not the only current racer to have rigging problems. Eighth place Russian skipper Igor Zaretskiy lost his forestay a few days ago. Lepage was disqualified from the Golden Globe Race when he made an unsanctioned stop. He is the only racer in the Chichester class of the GGR which allows one stop for repairs. All other racers who have made an unsanctioned stops have dropped out of the race around the world via the Southern Ocean and Cape Horn.
The GGR put out the following in a Facebook post:
CODE ORANGE Vessel LAALAND Loïc Lepage Race No.56 Dismasted APP> 600 Miles SW of Perth. NO ASSISTANCE REQUIRED
AT 1300UTC 20th October Loic Lepage VESSEL LAALAND Race Number 56 rang GGR to advise he had been dismasted in 25kt SW wind and 3mtr seas. His position at that time was 39, 5.92S and 104. 0.59E
Mast broke in two places. While cutting it away one piece may have damaged the hull in the area of the integral water tank in the keel. A little water appeared but the flow has stopped. The mast is now clear of the hull. It is 1900hrs local time and night. He will now rest and wait for morning . Daylight is at 0400hrs local. He will ring GGR control again at that time to check in, then subject to weather will build his jury rig and attempt to sail to Fremantle.
He has NOT asked for any assistance. All safety gear is secure. Sat phone is working. Tracking system is secure.The weather is rapidly deteriorating during the next six hours and may build to 50-55kts for a short time. Sea will build to 5-6mtrs. 6 Hours later it will slowly decrease and on 21st at 1200UTC 12 hours will be back to 20-25kts from the SW.
GGR have delivered a weather forecast to Loic with 6 hourly projections for the next 24hrs. GGR is closely monitoring the situation. #GGR2018
October 19, 2018
BREAKING: Susie Goodall’s 36-foot sailboat was knocked down with its hatch open in the Golden Globe Race.
Susie Goodall and Golden Globe Race organizers thought she had sailed through the worst of a violent southern ocean cyclone a few days before. Letting her guard down, the British sailor had the hatch open when she was surprised by a knockdown in 35-knot winds. Goodall is sailing below Australia as part of the solo-nonstop Golden Globe sailing race for boats between 32 and 36 feet long.
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Here is what she messaged on October 19, 2018, UTC:
“35-knots feels calm… So happy that storm is over!”
That text to GGR race organizers was followed by this message, “Relaxed too soon. Knockdown with hatch open. Want this sea to calm down!”
Goodall usually texts in all caps with no space between her words. I have put the texts in sentence case, put spaces between the words, and some punctuation.
Goodall actually turned around and went west to avoid a up to force eleven cyclone that was overtaking her on October 17, 2018. She sailed through force nine conditions to avoid the worst of the violent storm. Goodall is in 4th place. Only eight competitors remain in the retro race in which originally eighteen yachts crossed the start line.
Picture caption: 2018 Golden Globe Race – start of Race from Les Sables d’Olonne, France. Britain’s Susie Goodall (DHL Starlight) was all smiles prior to leaving the dock in Les Sables d’Olonne, France for the start of the 2018 Golden Globe Race. Credit: Tim Bishop/PPL/GGR
October 17, 2018
Test: Can you see the sailboat?
I’m testing if photos on my blog will appear on FB. I have been having a devil of a time trying to jump through the technical hoops of site verification for the Facebook and WordPress.com sites.
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The Islander Sailboat from Harry Pidgeon’s classic AROUND THE WORLD SINGLE-HANDED.
Susie Goodall needs to sail through a force 9, strong gale to get out the cyclone.
English sailor Susie Goodall (4th place in the Golden Globe Race) has turned around to avoid confused seas of cyclone below Australia, but will face force 9, strong gale, conditions for the next 9 hours as she tries to sail out of the building storm. If she had not turned around at the guidance of GGR race headquarters, she would sailing through the eye of the east-moving system and faced confused seas and possibly storm to violent storm conditions.
[image error]PPL PHOTO AGENCY – COPYRIGHT FREE for editorial use only PHOTO CREDIT: Tim Bishop/PPL/GGR Tel: +44(0)7768 395719 E.mail: ppl@mistral.co.uk web: http://www.pplmedia.com ***2018 Golden Globe Race – start of Race from Les Sables d’Olonne, France. Britain’s Susie Goodall (DHL Starlight) was all smiles prior to leaving the dock in Les Sables d’Olonne, France for the start of the 2018 Golden Globe Race.
10 of the original 18 sailors have dropped out of the solo around the world race for 32 to 36-foot sailboats. 3 boats have been dismasted, and 2 boats were abandoned last month.
Photo Credit: Tim Bishop/PPL/GGR
October 16, 2018
Susie Goodall is sailing straight into a cyclone in the Golden Globe Race
Susie Goodall is only woman and United Kingdom representative in the Golden Globe Race. If she is going to to follow in the footsteps of the 1968 Golden Globe winner Sir Robin Knox-Johnston of England, she will have to survive or avoid a 55-70 knot storm she is sailing right into. She is currently in fourth place in the race, having just passed the longitude of Cape Leeuwen in southwestern Australia. She moved up in the rankings in September when the second and third place boats were dismasted in a similar storm, requiring an international rescue.
Golden Globe Race (GGR) headquarters warned her to sail to avoid the eye of the storm. The competitors in the GGR retro race are not allowed to use satellite phones except to communicate to race headquarters. They are not allowed to get weather routing advice, but the GGR race will warn competitors of severe storms. They can get weather forecasts from HAM radio technology available in 1968.
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2018 Golden Globe Race – Susie Goodall (GBR) Rustler 36 DHL Starlight, 5th GGR skipper to pass through the Marina Rubicon ‘Gate’ off Lanzarote in the Canaries. Photo Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR
