The Golden Globe Race will start on 16th June 2018 off the coast of England. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede (nicknamed VDH) will be cutting in line aboard a Rusler 36 sponsored by Matmut. In this short video report, we see him manoeuvring solo and we discover the tools he will have on board: windvane gear, speed log, handwritten logbook..
Indeed, this race will celebrate the first single-handed round-the-world race without assistance in 1968 by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. The competitors will put themselves in the same situation as the participants of the time, notably in terms of onboard technology: no GPS, no communication outside the SSB, no radar...
