A first round-the-world race reserved for Class40s
9 months of competition, 8 new stopovers around the world, 7 teams involved, 35,000 miles sailed, these are the great figures of the Globe40. Through a 38-minute video, discover a summary of this first Class40 round-the-world race, an edition that has remained discreet and deserves to be discovered.
A world tour in pairs with 8 stops
The Globe40 is a two-handed round-the-world race with stopovers dedicated to the Class40 . For this first edition, the course was composed of 8 stages across the globe, with stopovers off the beaten track. After a prologue from Lorient to Tangier, the starting city of the race, the crews left Morocco on June 26, 2022, before discovering Cape Verde, Mauritius, Auckland, the capital of Australian sailing, Tahiti, Ushuaia, Recife, Grenada and back to Lorient.
Images at sea and on land
For nine months, seven crews, three Americans, one Frenchman, one Dutchman, one Japanese and one Moroccan raced over 35,000 miles. With different levels of preparation and different boats, this race gave rise to some nice surprises, but also to some setbacks. The gaps were sometimes kept in a handkerchief, 4 arrivals in 4 hours after 2,000 miles, 34 minutes of gap at the arrival in Auckland between the first two after 34 days at sea, a passage of Cape Horn which will remain engraved in the memory of all, but also sea conditions with 60 knots of wind and 10 m waves, but above all suspense until the end.
With a month and a half to go before the final, none of the participants were sure of winning. In the end, it was the Dutch crew that was the big winner, with a second place finish in Lorient.
