We roll up our sleeves and do what is best for the race and the team.We go all in, leaving our family and friends on land, we take the plunge to conquer the toughest sailing race there is. The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport – and sailing’s greatest round-the-world challenge.
We firmly believe that the oceans hold the key to solving many of the most challenging tasks facing the world today. The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport – and sailing’s greatest round-the-world challenge.
THE OCEAN RACE. “The stopover in Cabo Verde narrows the tactical possibilities but a waypoint on the way down will prevent us from hugging the African coast on the way down to Cape Town.“The most interesting part will be the last week into South Africa for sure with maybe the first Southern Ocean fronts.”For Richomme the toughest test will likely be that gigantic third leg from Cape Town, South Africa all the way to Shenzhen in China.“I think that Leg 3 from South Africa to China is going to be challenging as we’ll have to sail first in the Southern Ocean for more than a week then come up through the Doldrums and finally sail through the Java Sea which isn’t very well known to the sailors.”“The leg starts with a good week of Southern Ocean because the organisation will set a waypoint just to the west of Australia to keep us in the south for a bit longer,” he said. “ It is fantastic to welcome Boris Herrmann and Team Malizia as they take the first steps towards competing in the 2021-22 edition of The Ocean Race. Send Based in Lorient, the hotbed of French ocean racing, Richomme is no stranger to offshore racing at the highest level, having won the Class 40 division in the 2018 Route du Rhum and scored two victories in the highly competitive La Solitaire du Figaro (2016 and 2019).His second La Solitaire win – which elevated him to an exclusive club of only eight two-time winners of the singlehanded one-design event – was all the sweeter in that he was a last-minute substitution for Charles Caudrelier (winning skipper in the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean race).It was Caudrelier again who earmarked Richomme for the Mirpuri skipper role in his role as an advisor and consultant to the team.So what was the rookie Ocean Race skipper’s first reaction when he saw the route for his first around the world campaign?“I was glad to see quite a standard route and nothing too crazy,” he told us. waiting We have sent you an email with instructions to recover your password. The Ocean Race is all about the men and women bold enough to compete in it and is considered the ultimate test of a team in sport.
It’s a 9-month, 45,000-mile sprint across the world’s oceans. The race has evolved since 1973 utilising new technology, design and boat building techniques to ensure that the race is at the forefront of yacht racing, sporting news and the media.In 1973, Mexican Ramon Carlin and 13 crew members, including his wife Francisca "Paquita" and his son Enrique embarked on the Sayula II to compete in the Whitbread Round the World Race, 33,000 nautical miles later and without sail in the bow, he won the race and put the name of Mexico on the history book of the great nautical races.50 years later and following the footsteps of Sayula II, the Mexican ocean sailing team, will embark on the Viva México sailboat to compete in the Ocean Race round the world 2021-2022.