Globe 5.80 Transat: Flow closes on Trekka as wind fades
Globe 5.80 Transat Day 4: Flow cuts Trekka's lead to 5.5 nm, Origami's stop was electrical and light winds slow the fleet.
Globe 5.80 Transat Day 4: Flow cuts Trekka's lead to 5.5 nm, Origami's stop was electrical and light winds slow the fleet.
Globe 5.80 Transat Day 3: Trekka leads by about 10 nm, Flow reports a whale strike and a calm is forecast on Tuesday for the Lanzarote-bound fleet.
Finnish sailor Viivi Moisio, 24, sailed the Ocean Globe Race as crew. Now she races solo across the Atlantic in Flow, the 5.8m yacht she built.
Dean Frost and Lee McCarthy rowed the Atlantic in 2021. Now they sail Origami as the first two-handed crew in Globe 5.80 Transat history.
Shanghai's Yi Qun Liu (Yves) is the first Chinese entrant in the Globe 5.80 Transat, sailing Trekka, hull 01, the first 5.80 ever built.
Matthew Freestone, 59, has 16,000 miles under his keel and sails Inimini, the only boat in the Globe 5.80 Transat fleet without Starlink.
Tasmanian Bruce Payne, 62, a former Australian SAS soldier who came to sailing in his fifties, races Meraki in the Globe 5.80 Transat.
Malta's Katherine Urpani, a pro yacht crew since 1989 with seven Atlantic crossings, sails Capucinette, the Mini Globe Race winner, solo.