Simon Curwen gives us a tour of his Golden Globe boat - Yachting Monthly
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2022
- Before setting off on the 2022 Golden Globe Race, Yachting Monthly's Katy Stickland interviewed the skippers and got a tour of the boats upon which they will spend 9 months racing around the world
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Great guy, great interview, humble but self assured.
I’m not surprised he is in first place.
I was thinking...but you said it!!
Such a cool generous sailor he is❤
Most Award 🎇best boat tour- perfect pace, honest, interesting, well spoken, true to heart fabulous skipper🎈
IMO the number one or two most complete rundown of the entrants along with the reasons why he did it. He seems
relaxed and has a definate researched direction on all aspects. He is a front runner.
My respect for these guys doing it and I am so happy to learn more about the GGR…Awesome…really ..many thx🌏🌴⛵️☀️💫
I can’t imagine taking a 36 footer into the roaring forties. Simon Sir, your gonads must have their own gravity! Good luck and fair winds my friend. I know I’m late to the party and on checking, your in the lead skipper, top job!
This event is amazing! Thatks for taking us through your boat.
What a superb interview, boat tour and an amazing humble person Simon seems to be!
Fantastic good luck sir....and watch your noggin on that grab rail !
Simon I log onto my computer every morning before work and my homepage is GGR tracker. I see you in the lead everyday! Great to put a face to a name. Not only a great sailor but clearly a great guy too! You've inspired me to buy a boat one day to see the world. Fair winds!
Interesting to know the boat and watch were both made in Emsworth. Must look out for the watch museum. Lots of useful tips. All the best Simon.
Well done so far Simon! Fantastic to be ahead at Tasmania. Best from all at Seaview YC who are following you
I like his take on racing and the boat!
That was awesome.
Legend!
More GGR content please
Hi there, we have interviews onboard with all the skippers, which we will be dropping here daily. Make sure you're subscribed to the channel to get notified of each new video.
@@YachtingMonthly Thanks... I am watching them all... and subscribed to build the channel.
Best luck Simon Curwen
I owned "Clara" in the 90s,they were not designed to be a ketch,it was an option
Mr Curwen lives in Emsworth,"clara" was built in Emsworth,not Falmouth as was the majority
‘ssup?~love it! useful .see u around!🙃
there lucky they avoided orca attacks at the start ,hope the mini transat has the same luck next year
That why I have my kitchen take so long for delivery he is going around the world
Love to know what food and meals are being prepared
I think his best one is a pouch of confit duck. He has lots of long life supermarket tins or pouches of stuff plus some drink complete meal things he has for breakfast. I think he has some with museli or something like that and some as a drink. Then he has some less nice pouches for his emergency rations if he's taking a long time. He has some chocolate, energy bars, the odd tipple etc. But each skipper has approached it differently.
Que du bon sens.
God the slo mo ...is horrific...Apart from that great tour of the boat all the best Simon.
..was about to comment on that as well. Borderlining on a flashing-images-warning, haha. 😁 Interesting video overall tho, agreed.
Best of luck simon, hope you don't mind me saying ? Take a few kilos of creatine with you, it's a great recovery for muscles and aches and pains, just like your meal replacement with all the minerals creatine will give your body a lift and will speed up recovery.
Bring a banned substance? Good way to get disqualified. Good thing you are not the team manager.
Every time I see this colour of sailing yacht I think Guppy 🤍👍
So, are they stopping here and there to get water, food , beer etc along the way? Or is it a non stop race? And why wouldn’t he have a water maker? That would be the first time I would rig up. And why wouldn’t he have fishing poles?? Fresh fish on the BBQ??? I don’t get it.
It’s meant to be sailing like it was in the 60s I think he mentioned unless it’s for safety reasons. Hence the hydro generator to keep batteries charge for radio.
It's non stop - recreating the first solo non stop race in 1968, so apart from emergency supplies they can only use technology they had originally, so no desalinator except for in the life raft for emergencies. They take a lot of water but also collect rainwater to drink along the way. He didn't take any fishing stuff. Some do try catch some fish along the way but he wasn't interested and apparently those that do attempt only catch something they could eat very rarely. Hes got decent food for 240 days then what he calls punishment food to motivate him to get back faster. He definitely doesn't have a bbq though. Just a jet boil and a little stove. He has lots of tinned or sachet long life type food. If they do stop once they move into a different class of the race but none of them want to do that and you can't win the main race. They only do that for emergencies, not for topping up on supplies.
Any other questions you want to know?
@@hydrosphere8447 Thanks for that info. I stumbled on this whole GGR thing by accident while looking at sailing vids. It’s really awesome though. It’s the ultimate survival/endurance race I can think of. I don’t think anything else is as hard. So more questions!!!
Why such a small selection of boats? Why under 36feet? The route, is it layer out by the organizers? Or as long as the reach their check points they can sail where ever they want? Can they dry out their boats ( on the hard during low tide somewhere) and get off to do a repair? Not docking, but grounding out on low tide??
@Lucky Goose ah those are harder questions..
The boats have to be from a list of 20 or so approved production boats (so not custom design) and between 32 and 36ft as that's in line with the boats in the original race and they want to copy the spirit in that sense and want it to be good racing based on the sailing and adventure, rather than a race of who can get the best sponsorship and so build or buy the fastest boat. Its trying to keep the original spirit and make it a relatively fair race about the solo experience rather than big race teams, big money etc. Its aimed as being a race for anyone rather than professionals competing for top sponsorship as much as anything.
The route is an interesting one. The 2018 was the first GGR 50 years after the original race and was dedicated to Sir Rob knox so they used the route he took as a course. This time it's commemorating Bernard moitessier so they're following his route, which has a few more prescribed points than last time I believe.
They can veer off to seek shelter as long as they still pass all the way points correctly. There are a few little islands they have to leave certain way on top of the more obvious points.
They can seek shelter and can anchor but they can't enter ports or get any assistance or they are relegated to the Chichester fleet and then disqualified if they stop more than once. I dont think there's anything against the rules of beaching themselves as long as nobody touches them or their boat they don't leave their boat or anything like that but I can't imagine anyone would intentionally do that as they'd be risking a lot of damage, would be subject to tides, and not very comfortable to be in your boat on its side. One boat did accidentally beach themselves this year and is very worse for wear! If they want to shelter for repairs without going into port then they'd almost certainly anchor if possible. Though there are actually not many places on the route where that is possible. Especially once you're past Cape Town. That's really the last shelter opportunity they'll have until Australia. Simon tried to anchor off trimidade as he needed to go up the mast as his genoa halyard broke but it was too deep so he wasn't able to anchor. He tried to go Hove to in the shelter but there wasn't enough so he had a brutal time at the mast and wasn't able to fix it there as his bosun chair got so battered due to the large swell that he was flipped out of it and had to cut himself free and free climb down, and lost the mousing line he'd placed in the process. He's now waiting for Cape Town and hoping for better shelter to go up again. So it's harder to find land to anchor off, let alone beach yourself especially in the Atlantic as they're mostly volcanic, rocky and very steep islands, than you'd think initially, at least without going majorly off route for a while. A lot of them do their repairs like that when they have little wind and flat seas as that seems to be as good an option as any
@@hydrosphere8447 Oh, I’m surprised that the 2018 race was the first one in 50 years!!!??? That’s wild!! I was under the impression they just kept them going from the onset every 4 years. I’m so fortunate I discovered this, will now be a fan for life.
So, the route. When I look at the GGR tracker and see everyone’s boats making progress, there is always a purple boat way in front. Is that the sailor that the route is dedicated to? I hope you understand what I’m talking about! I’m a total nubby when it comes to this.