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She went around the world in 235 days to win sailing's most grueling competition

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South African sailor Kirsten Neuschafer beat 15 rivals in the 2022 Golden Globe Race, a grueling, nonstop, round-the-world sailing competition. She is the first woman in the race's history to have taken first place. Kirsten Neuschafer/GGR2022 hide caption

South African sailor Kirsten Neuschafer beat 15 rivals in the 2022 Golden Globe Race, a grueling, nonstop, round-the-world sailing competition. She is the first woman in the race's history to have taken first place.

After 235 days alone at sea in a tiny fiberglass boat, South African Kirsten Neuschafer sailed to victory on Thursday in the 2022 Golden Globe nonstop, round-the-world race, crossing the finish line a day ahead of her closest rival.

In sharp contrast to the rough conditions she experienced during much of her voyage, Neuschafer, aboard her 36-foot Minnehaha, spent the last few hours with almost no wind, inching into the same harbor at Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, that she and 15 competitors departed on Sept. 4.

This race is a nonstop sail around the world. Cassette tapes are allowed, but no GPS

All but three of those entrants were subsequently forced out of the grueling race, regarded by many as the most challenging competition the sailing world has to offer. One boat sank in the Indian Ocean, with Neuschafer sailing to the skipper's rescue. Several others lost their masts or experienced other problems.

The Golden Globe is a unique race in which participants are not allowed to use most modern electronics to find their position at sea, relying instead on celestial navigation. It is a reboot of a famous 1968 race that resulted in the first nonstop, unassisted circumnavigation — a feat so rare that even today, more people have gone into space. The race was revived in 2018, and Neuschafer is now the first woman to win.

"I knew before I started that a large aspect of this race is luck and a large aspect is preparation," Neuschafer told NPR by satellite phone in February as she was about to round Cape Horn, where she faced 55 mile-per-hour winds and seas of 25 feet.

"The single-handed aspect was the one that drew me," she said of her decision to enter the race. "I really like the aspect of sailing by celestial navigation, sailing old school."

Neuschafer's closest rival, Abhilash Tomy, an Indian navy commander, is about a day behind her. Another competitor, Austrian sailor Michael Guggenberger, is not expected to finish for several more days.

Sailor races around the world in 235 days, becomes first woman to win global competition

• The Golden Globe Race required sailors to leave France on Sept. 4, 2022 and sail around the world.
• Kirsten Neuschäfer, from South Africa, won the 2022 race once she crossed the finish line on Thursday.
• She's the first woman to complete such a race, organizers say.

A South African skipper who set out nearly eight months ago to sail across the world has made history as the first woman to win an around-the-world race by the three great capes.

Kirsten Neuschäfer, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, won the 2022 Golden Globe Race, crossing the finish line in France  Thursday .

She completed the course in 235 days, 5 hours and 44 minutes, sailing 30,290 nautical miles total.

Organizers said her feat makes her the first woman to win a race around the three "great capes" of South America, Africa and Australia. 

"If Kirsten was crossing the line in first place, she would be the first woman to win a round-the-world race by the three great capes, including solo and fully crewed races, nonstop or with stops, and the first South African sailor to win a round-the-world event," race officials said Tuesday .

Golden Globe Race course

The race required participants to leave Les Sables-d’Olonne, France on Sept. 4, 2022 and sail nonstop around the world via the world's great capes in the Southern Hemisphere, then return to Les Sables-d’Olonne. They had to do it alone with no help, organizers said on the race's website .

Other sailors in the race were from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Malta and more.

Competition officials had predicted this week that Simon Curwen from the United Kingdom would complete the race first on Thursday, followed by Neuschäfer on Friday morning and Abhilash Tomy from India on Friday evening.

Sailors were tracked during their journeys, and race enthusiasts could keep up with their progress on the race's website.

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What are the rules?

Once the starting shot sounded n Sept. 4, 2022 , sailors had to start the trek within five days. They were able to seek shelter and anchor for repairs at sea but could not enter a port, nor could they receive help from others.

Those who finished the race will get a Golden Globe plaque and the Golden Globe perpetual trophy, organizers said.

The winner has sailed film crews, cycled thousands of miles and more

Neuschäfer completed the race on a  Cape George Cutter called Minnehaha. The 36-foot boat is named after a fictional native woman from American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem "The Song of Hiawatha."

"She is the lover of the poem's primary character, Hiawatha," Neuschäfer's website reads. "The name Minnehaha is said to mean 'laughing water' in the poem. It more accurately translates to 'waterfall' in the Dakota Sioux language."

Neuschäfer has been sailing since she was a child, organizers said. She began sailing professionally in 2006, working as a trainer and completing sailboat deliveries, including one from Portugal to South Africa.

She also has helped transport film crews to the Antarctic to gather footage and was featured in the National Geographic series ‘Wild Life Resurrection Island with Bertie Gregory,’ sailing his crew throughout south Georgia as they looked into the area's ecosystems and its challenges.

She's also a cycler and once traveled from Europe to South Africa, cycling more than 9,320 miles in one year.

How did the race begin?

The Golden Globe Race dates back to the 1960s, when British sailor Francis Chichester left England to sail around the world to Australia and back via the five Great Capes. He did it in 226 days – 274 days if you include a stopover in Sydney – to set a record for the fastest voyage around the world in a small boat.

Just a few years later in 1968, nine additional participants set out to sail solo nonstop around the globe. The only one to finish was Robin Knox-Johnston, who finished in 312 days, according to Golden Globe Race organizers .

Today's race is for "those who dare," much like it was for Sir Robin, organizers wrote on their website.

And dare, Neuschäfer did.

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Golden Globe Race 2022: The Long Way

• Katy Stickland
• October 14, 2021

Katy Stickland meets the skippers turning their backs on modern technology to take part in the slowest yacht race around the world - the Golden Globe Race 2022

Australian Mark Sinclair plans to sail via Cape Horn to the start line of the 2022 race, and will be leaving Australia in December 2021. Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR

Just one man – Robin Knox-Johnston – finished the 1968-69 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race .

His triumph led to the beginnings of the round the world yacht races we see today, and now fast foiling boats, specced to the max, circumnavigate in a mere 41 days.

Many raised doubts (as they did with the original event) when Australian sailor Don McIntyre announced he would be running a 2018 Golden Globe Race – 50 years after the original – with skippers having to sail nonstop around the world using only the technology available to Knox-Johnston.

This meant no GPS , satellite phones, weather routing, chartplotters or autopilots .

Instead, the skippers would navigate their pre-1988 production long-keeled 32-36ft boats using a sextant and rely on HAM radio for weather information as well as a barometer.

In the end, 18 skippers started the 2018 Golden Globe Race; five made it to the finish. Five boats were dismasted, with three sailors needing rescue from the Southern Ocean .

Others endured multiple knockdowns , were pitchpoled in heavy weather or suffered equipment failure. All of them survived.

Finn Tapio Lehtinen is back for the Golden Globe Race 2022 and will be looking to better his fifth place position in 2018-2019. He will be racing in the same boat – his Gaia 35, Asteria . Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR

Next year, the Golden Globe Race will return, but with some changes.

The ‘retro’ element of the event will remain but the fleet will start two months later – 4 September 2022 – in an effort to avoid entering the Southern Ocean too early.

McIntyre admits the speed of the 2018 fleet took him by surprise after he ‘didn’t believe’ the modelling which showed a circumnavigation of 210-220 days.

Race winner Jean-Luc Van Den Heede finished in 211 days, 101 days faster than Knox-Johnston.

Rules on rigging sizes have been dropped and there will be no spar size restrictions, except for length.

Jean-Luc Van Den Heede on his Rustler 36 Matmut meets the press at the end of his 211-day circumnavigation to win the 2018-19 Golden Globe Race. Credit: Tim Bishop/PPL/GGR

HAM radio transmissions will also be banned, replaced with a 100% waterproof HF SSB radio and weather fax for receiving weather charts. In 2018, there was controversy when it was revealed some of the skippers didn’t have HAM radio licences.

This change has caused concerns, with some of the 2018 entrants highlighting difficulties in picking up Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) frequencies in the Southern Ocean due to the shrinking of the broadcasting network as more mariners rely on satellite communication.

The route is also different in the Golden Globe Race 2022, ‘to make it less demanding on the boats,’ according to McIntyre.

The 2022 skippers will have to keep the South Atlantic island Trindade to port and make a photo gate stop at Cape Town. This follows the Clipper route, which was taken by Bernard Moitessier in the 1968 race.

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Some entrants in 2018 had never sailed using their windvane steering; McIntyre has now introduced an extra 2,000 mile nonstop and tracked qualifying passage.

Skippers must use their race boat and sail using windvane steering and celestial navigation .

Like 2018, the Golden Globe Race 2022 has attracted an interesting mix of colourful characters, with some of the 2018 skippers returning including Ertan Beskardes , Mark Sinclair and fifth placed Tapio Lehtinen .

Golden Globe Race 2022 skippers must navigate by sextant. Routing, GPS and chartplotters are all banned. Credit: Mark Sinclair/GGR/PPL

For Australian Sinclair , racing around the world in his bright orange Lello 34 masthead cutter, Coconut is as much about the race’s nautical history as it is about the competition.

He has truly embraced the retro aspect of the event, using car tyres instead of a drogue, and fitting a Second World War US Navy Chelsea engine-room clock to the main bulkhead.

Last time, Sinclair, 62, retired at his home port of Adelaide after 157 days of sailing, having ‘gone rogue’, effectively abandoning the race in favour of cruising the coast of South Africa. Barnacles on the hull and a diminishing water supply meant it was unwise to push on into the Southern Ocean.

He has now fitted a 200 litre bladder water tank.

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‘I got a lot of criticism for having my holiday around the bottom of South Africa in the last race, but I’ve still got my boat. There is a fine balance between risk and reward. Five boats were dismasted in 2018 of which four were abandoned and even Jean-Luc [Van Den Heede] had a badly damaged rig from a violent knock down. There is something to be said for sailing at a moderate pace and preserving the integrity of the boat and the skipper,’ noted Sinclair, who prefers heaving-to in heavy weather.

He has also tweaked Coconut ’s rig for the Golden Globe Race 2022, fashioning two 2.6m jockey poles to boom out twin staysails, as well as carrying the two standard spinnaker poles for a better downwind performance.

He plans to push further south sooner than he did in 2018.

Old and new

The 2022 race has attracted skippers with varying degrees of experience: from American Elliott Smith , who at 26 is the youngest to enter and has only sailed for the last three years, to heavyweights like Britain’s David Scott Cowper , who has finished six solo circumnavigations around the world and six Northwest Passage transits; Damien Guillou from France who has raced seven solo La Solitaire du Figaro, and has hefty sponsorship from PRB; Kiwi Graham Dalton, Velux 5 Oceans skipper and older brother of Whitbread winner and CEO of New Zealand’s America’s Cup team, Grant Dalton, and BOC Challenge veteran Robin Davie .

For Cornishman Davie , the 2022 race is unfinished business, having run out of time preparing his Rustler 36, C’est La Vie for 2018.

Like all those who finished the 2018 Golden Globe Race, Robin Davie has already sailed solo around the world. Credit: Robin Davie/PPL/GGR

The former British Merchant Navy radio officer is all too aware of the dangers of the Southern Ocean, having been dismasted in the 1994 BOC Challenge Around Alone Race thousands of miles from Cape Horn; he sailed under jury rig round the cape to the Falkland Islands.

He has spent a lot of time strengthening his Rustler 36 in case of a knockdown, beefing up the main bulkheads, glassing the deck and glassing the chainplates to the hull.

‘Nobody wants to be rolled but you’re better off accepting that it is certainly possible during the race, especially when you are in areas of big storms . It can happen to any of us,’ states Davie, who has solo circumnavigated three times but never nonstop.

Work was put on hold from March 2020 until September 2021, when Davie, 69, was trapped in the US due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He still has to fit the mast, which is the original from Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s Rustler 36, who decided to sail in 2018 with a shorter mast.

2022 will be a celebration of 1968 Golden Globe skipper, Frenchman Bernard Moitessier. Credit: Getty

Davie will be adding strengthening pads where the lower shrouds connect to the mast, following Van Den Heede’s pitchpole in 11m (36ft) Southern Ocean seas, which caused the starboard lower shroud’s connecting bolt attachment to slip 5cm down in the mast section, slackening the rigging and almost costing the Frenchman the race.

Davie is not the only one looking at lessons learned from 2018, and the preparations by the five finishers.

Like Van Den Heede, who spent the winter honing his storm tactics in Biscay before the start of the 2018 race, South African skipper Kirsten Neuschafer is planning to sail throughout the Northern Hemisphere winter.

The 39-year-old, who has spent five years sailing for Skip Novak aboard his Pelagic Australis in South Georgia, the Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands and Patagonia, has been preparing her Cape George Cutter CG36, Minnehaha in Prince Edward Island.

Although she has plenty of experience sailing the 74ft Pelagic Australis in big seas and heavy weather, Neuschäfer knows racing a 36ft cruising boat successfully through the Southern Ocean will depend on the vessel’s strength as well as storm tactics.

Kirsten Neuschäfer’s longest solo passage to date is a 67-day trip from Portugal to South Africa, with only windvane self-steering. Credit: Kirsten Neuschäfer

Minnehaha ’s bulwarks have been rebuilt and she has a new deck, chainplates, hull fittings and a new aluminium mast.

‘We had naval architects calculate the righting moment for the boat to determine what spar the boat could take. It is bigger than the original wooden mast as, being aluminium it isn’t as heavy, but it is still in the range of what the boat was designed to take.’

Reinforcement plates will also be fitted around the spreaders and cap shrouds.

Neuschäfer learned to sail off South Africa’s Eastern Cape, giving her valuable experience of the Agulhas Current and heavy weather sailing.

She will be practising heaving-to techniques, including with a mainsail or storm jib hanked onto the backstay, to find the best technique for the boat.

Cape Town questions

Neuschäfer is unashamedly ambitious and is ‘looking to win [the 2022 Golden Globe Race] through and through’.

Like Van Den Heede, she will be seeking professional routing advice ahead of the start, although admits ‘luck is a really big factor’, especially for the Cape Town photo gate.

‘I know Cape Town like the back of my hand and at that time of year, you can have three to four weeks of solid 30-40 knot southeasters, which will be totally against you. There are also currents off the continental shelf around Cape Town. If it wasn’t for the photo drop, I would have avoided that coastline like the plague unless I intended to make landfall.’

Both Graham Dalton and David Scott Cowper have also raised questions about the wisdom of the Cape Town gate; race chairman Don McIntyre admits it’s ‘incredibly demanding’ but insists it is safe, and will add to the challenge.

‘The GGR is a tough race,’ he said.

The 2018-19 race saw 18 skippers start, but just five finished. Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR

Cowper would prefer a time penalty for those who fail to make the gate.

‘If you have a Cape Doctor blowing, you might not be able to enter Cape Town for two or three days. On the other hand, you might have no wind at all, and take days to get in and out of Cape Town. It doesn’t add an extra challenge as it’s just about luck,’ he said.

Cowper is the most experienced skipper in the race.

Finishing the event would bring his tally of circumnavigations around the world to seven.

He is already planning another Northwest Passage transit via the Prince of Wales Strait, after the race.

British sailor David Scott Cowper has circumnavigated the world six times. Credit: Ocean Frontiers OGR/ GGR/CG580/

He will be 80 when he crosses the start line, and will be racing with cataracts.

‘Unfortunately, one does slow up and your strength levels are not quite the same as before, but on the other hand, one knows what to anticipate so I’m hoping that stands me in good stead,’ said Cowper, who is provisioning his Tradewind 35 cutter, currently named Tim Pippin , for a 250-day circumnavigation.

Attention to detail

Is he looking to beat Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s 211 days and claim the record as the oldest person to complete a solo round the world yacht race?

‘It would be nice to do that, but I don’t want to be that optimistic and become conceited. I will take each day as it comes and hope to sail the boat reasonably quickly,’ he said from his home port of Newcastle, where he is working on refitting and strengthening the boat with his typical forensic attention to detail.

Cowper believes at ‘scenic speeds of 3-5 knots’, it will be impossible for the 2022 fleet to outrun heavy weather in the Southern Ocean and is unconcerned about the ability to get weather data.

The Golden Globe Race 2022 route. Credit: Maxine Heath

‘You have to take the weather as it comes. You just have to try and read the signs and watch your barometer,’ he advised.

Whilst few of the 2022 skippers will have the seamanship of Cowper, all of them have the same passion that this ‘longest, loneliest and slowest’ race seems to inspire.

It is turning this passion into successful practical preparation to make the Les Sables d’Olonne start line on 4 September 2022 which is one of the biggest tests.

Of the 31 sailors who made the provisional list of 2022 entrants, just 27 – including six Brits and six Australians – remain a year before the start.

Only time will tell if they will be truly ready to follow in Moitessier’s wake and be thrown at the mercy of the ocean.

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Golden Globe: Kirsten Neuschäfer becomes first woman to win solo round the world race

• Helen Fretter
• April 27, 2023

Kirsten Neuschäfer has become the first woman ever to win a solo around the world race, finishing first in the Golden Globe Race, having successfully rescued a fellow competitor from his liferaft on the way.

South African solo skipper Kirsten Neuschäfer has won the Golden Globe Race , crossing the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne at around 2100hrs today after 235 days of racing. In doing so Neuschäfer has become the first woman ever to win a solo around the world race, and she does so having successfully rescued a fellow competitor from his liferaft off South Africa.

She drifted over the line in zephyr light winds this evening in the evening light, having contended with racing through the Southern Ocean, around the three Great Capes, in her Cape George 36, Minnehaha , with huge spectator fleet welcoming her.

“This is amazing, it’s a once in a lifetime experience,” she said on the dock.

“I didn’t know if I’d win it. I was convinced I’d finish it, but after the Doldrums I thought that’s finished [the chance of winning] for me. I was quite overwhelmed [to learn I’d won] I thought I was going to come in 3rd after Simon [Curwen] and Abhilash [Tomy].”

On being the first woman ever to win a solo around the world race, she said: “I’m very happy, but I entered as a sailor and being a woman is just secondary.”

Kirsten Neuschäfer on her Cape George 36 Minnehaha” Credit: Kirsten Neuschäfer / GGR2022

Neuschäfer went into the race as one of the hotly tipped skippers to watch, and has either held – or duelled for – the lead since Simon Curwen pulled into Chile in late January.

Her nearest competitor, Abhilash Tomy, is some 100 miles behind her, the pair having raced up the Atlantic in a remarkably close match – all the more remarkable given that neither knew each other’s position. In fact, until she saw the large spectator fleet welcoming her outside Les Sables d’Olonne, Neuschäfer did not even know she was in the lead.

Neuschäfer is one of just three skippers racing around the world solo, two more – including Simon Curwen, who crossed the line earlier today – were in ‘Chichester ‘ division (named after Sir Francis Chichester’s 1966-67 solo circumnavigation which included a stopover in Sydney).

Before entering the Golden Globe Race, Neuschäfer worked for legendary skipper Skip Novak , both crewing and skippering his expedition yachts in high latitudes. This gave her invaluable experience of sailing in the deepest Southern Oceans.

Kirsten Neuschäfer arriving in Les Sables d’Olonne as winner of the Golden Globe Race 2022/23. Photo: GGR2022

Her preparation for the race was complicated by covid lockdown, and having bought her 1988 Cape George cutter in Newfoundland she spent a winter in Prince Edward Island near Nova Scotia putting the boat through a thorough refit. 

She then delivered it solo home to Cape Town, practising her celestial navigation on the way, and then to France. Once gathered alongside the other Golden Globe Race competitors, Minnehaha quickly proved itself as one of the fastest boats in the fleet.

While Simon Curwen stole an early lead on the fleet, Neuschäfer, along with Tomy and Finnish skipper Tapio Lehtinen became a pack of three as they entered the Southern Indian Ocean. Then, on November 19, Lehtinen notified race control that his boat had suddenly sunk, and he was in a liferaft. Race organisers raised the alarm with fellow competitors and Kirsten Neuschafer, then in 3rd place, was nearest, around 105 miles south-west.

Neuschäfer made best speed to Lehtinen’s last known position, hand-steering through the night, and 24 hours after he abandoned ship Minnehaha arrived at his position. She executed a textbook solo recovery, 

Lehtinen described the manoeuvre: “She furled in the genoa, lowered the main, started the engine and approached the raft to windward of me so I could throw the throwing line to her, which she put around a winch and pulled me alongside.

“I was able to climb onboard Minnehaha with her help. It was great!”

Fellow Golden Globe Race skipper Kirsten Neuschafer was the first on the scene, rescuing Tapio Lehtinen from his liferaft before he was transferred to the Darya Gayatri. Credit: Anglo Eastern

The pair shared a hug, chocolate and a tot of rum, meanwhile a bulk carrier, the Darya Gayatri approached. Neuschäfer then manoeuvred Minnehaha into the lee of the carrier ship – an incredibly skilful piece of positioning with the ever present risk of clattering her own rig into the ship’s high sides. Once throwing lines were secured, Lehtinen got back into the liferaft and transferred to the ship. Neuschäfer continued on with her race. She was awarded 35 hours of redress for the rescue. 

The remainder of Neuschäfer’s race was not without drama – damage to her spinnaker pole meant she was limited in her headsail selection, and with very limited weather data she had a grindingly slow passage north through the Atlantic. 

However, her win today makes history as the first female skipper ever to win a solo round the world race. Women have won in crewed around the world races – in the last edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, two female crew, Caroline Brouwer and Marie Riou were part of the winning Dongfeng Race Team. In the 2017/18 Clipper Round the World Race Wendy Tuck skippered the winning boat, while Nikki Henderson skippered the boat in 2nd.

Most famously, Ellen MacArthur set a solo non-stop around the world record in 2004, having finished 2nd in 2000/01 Vendée Globe – a finish place yet to be matched by another female skipper. Clarisse Cremer currently holds the record for the fastest solo non-stop around the world time for a female sailor, completing the last Vendée Globe in 87 days, 2 hours and 24 minutes. But none have won a solo around the world race.

Neuschaffer’s time may be considerably slower, but the Golden Globe Race is inarguably one of the toughest sporting events in existence and the skill she demonstrated throughout places her name firmly alongside the greats of ocean racing.

Neuschafer was greeted by Catherine Chabaud, the first female sailor to race solo non stop around the world without assistance. Credit: GGR2022

As Samantha Davies, Vendée Globe and Ocean Race sailor posted: “This is just amazing! So happy to have followed this crazy race and see an incredibly talented female skipper come in to win overall, with a 24h time bonus for having saved a fellow competitor during the race. Just incredible seamanship! I am in awe.”

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