Thanks,
Cathy
Webmaster - CDSOA, Inc.
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From: Don McIntyre [mailto: icebound [at] ozemail [dot] com [dot] au ]
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 4:48 AM
To: "deleted by webmaster"
Cc: webmaster@capedory.org
Subject: FW: 2018 Golden Globe Race Photo request?
Dear Sirs
On April 22nd 2015 we will be announcing to the world’s boating media a 50th Anniversary edition of the Golden Globe Race, originally won be Sir Robin Knox-Johnston in 1969 sailing Suhaili. The GGR will start on June 14th 2018. For now the details are confidential, but some are included below and the web site “Holding Page” http://www.GoldenGlobeRace.com is now online. You will see that the race is for certain production yachts only. A Press Release to 2400 global media outlets will be issued and we would like to include some High Definition pictures of the type of Yachts approved to enter the 2018 GGR. Including the Cape Dory 36
I am writing to you as your yacht is on the approved list of designs and I wonder if you would be prepared to supply a couple of pictures of the Cape Dory 36 sailing for us to consider using on our web site, in the press release and at other times to promote the race, as being indicative of the yachts a competitor could buy to compete in the race? We cannot pay for the images, but would credit the photos to you if we use them.
If you would like to support this event and supply two photos they should be around two Meg files and you could email them to this address.
Thanks so much for your time and consideration of this. Any pictures would need to arrive no later than April the 10th to be considered. It would be greatly appreciated if you could keep this news from your general membership until after the official announcement on April 22.
All the best
Don McIntyre
2018 GGR Founder
http://www.McIntyreAdventure.com
2018 GOLDEN GLOBE solo non-stop, around the world yacht race. (Confidential and Embargoed from the media)
Preliminary information
Stepping back to the golden age of solo sailing
In celebration of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s historic 1968/9 world first solo non-stop circumnavigation in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Yacht Race, a new Golden Globe Race will be staged to mark the 50th Anniversary of that epic, starting in 2018.
Like the original Sunday Times event, the 2018 Golden Globe Race is very simple. Depart Falmouth, England on June 14th 2018 and sail solo, non-stop around the world, via the five Great Capes and return to Falmouth. Entrants are limited to use the same type of yachts and equipment that were available to Robin in that first race. That means sailing without modern technology or benefit of satellite based navigation aids. Competitors must sail in production boats between 32ft and 36ft overall (9.75 – 10.97m) designed prior to 1988 and having a full-length keel with rudder attached to their trailing edge. These yachts will be heavily built, strong and steady, similar in concept to Robin’s 32ft vessel Suhaili.
Approval for Production yacht types for entry into the Golden Globe Race will be at the sole discretion of the Race Organis¬ers.
• Current approved designs are;
• Aries 32 http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=1033
• Baba 35 http://bluewaterboats.org/baba-35/
• Biscay 36 http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=5341
• Bowman 36 http://bowman36.blogspot.co.uk/
• Cape Dory 36 http://bluewaterboats.org/cape-dory-36/
• Rustler 36 http://www.rustleryachts.com/36.php
• Westsail 32 http://bluewaterboats.org/westsail-32/
• Tradewind 35 http://www.traditionalsail.co.uk/tradit ... d%2035.htm
• Saltram Saga 36 http://www.saltram-owners-club.net/page1.php
Race organisation
Golden Globe Race Ltd, a company registered in the UK, is responsible for the organisation, management and promotion of the 2018 Golden Globe Race in conjunction with Ocean Frontiers Pty Ltd. Trading as McIntyre Adventure. Race founder, Don McIntyre has extensive event and race manage¬ment experience at all levels. PPL Ltd led by Barry Pickthall in the UK has been appointed exclusive media partner for the event. Barry is the former yachting correspondent to The Sunday Times and The Times newspapers. He and his media company has covered and or been involved with just about every round the world yacht race going back to the original Sunday Times Golden Globe in 1968 and holds an extensive library of photographs and footage from these historic events.
AIMS and OBJECTIVE
To create a unique retro non-stop solo round the world yacht race, in the image of the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race that draws sailors back to the golden age of ‘One sailor, one boat facing the great oceans of the world’.
To give sailors of all ages the opportunity to race solo around the world safely, in a fleet of similar and affordable yachts in the spirit of Suhaili
Our overriding aim is organise a race where adventure takes precedence over winning at all costs; one where sailing skill and traditional seamanship, rather than modern technology and outside support, gets you round, and where the achievement truly belongs to the skipper.
