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The first edition of the Globe40 had to wait a year due to the pandemic, but this doublehanded around the world race for Class40s is set to start on June 26 from Tangier, a Moroccan port on the Strait of Gibraltar.
The race, which seeks to be both affordable and accessible on a competitive level, has 10 teams to complete the eight leg course with the final finish on March 2023 in Lorient, France. Among the field is American Joe Harris sailing his GryphonSolo2 with Roger Junet.
Having departed on May 17 from Portland, ME, they are currently crossing the Atlantic Ocean en route for the Prologue Race from Lorient to Tangier. Harris offers this update from that 3000+ nm journey:
(May 31, 2022) – I am writing on Day 13, soon to be Day 14 of this trans-Atlantic voyage that has taken many twists and turns. We are approximately 770 miles from our destination of Lorient, France but we are blocked by a wall of very strong Easterly winds that prevent us from heading east…
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