Staying Healthy for 9 Months at Sea with Balance of Nature
GGR 2018 Film Teaser—Les Sables d’Olonne Ville & Agglomeration
Arrival After GGR 2018 Finish
Post-Race Interview with Don
Retrace Puffin’s Journey Around the World
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GGR 2018, Part 3: Start of the Super Quarantine of a Lifetime—Les Sables-d’Olonne, France
Group photo before the SITraN start The ideal wind at the start of the SITraN charity race did not last long, and the fleet slowed down in the light breeze with an increasing [...]
Golden Globe Race 2018 Part 2: Bermuda-Hamble-Falmouth Ocean Crossing
Solo Atlantic crossing UK-bound Puffin left Bermuda on May 7 at 08.30 in an 18- to 22-knot southerly breeze. I could expect a real solo ocean crossing in splendid isolation due to my [...]
Puffin in the GGR, Part 1a: The Chaotic Final Prep Months
As I write this I am sitting behind Puffin’s salon table, not in the boat but in our new (downsized) home. Golden Globe Race rules allowed the entrants to leave the salon table behind, so [...]
Reflections from Back on Dry Land
Today is June 21, 2019, and Puffin crossed the GGR finish line just 3 months ago, but the events of the 263-day nonstop ocean marathon are fading in my memory with an unexpected pace. [...]
Golden Globe Race News
2018 Golden Globe Race moves to Les Sables d’Olonne, France
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, France. The 2018 Golden Globe Race, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the original event back in 1968/9 which led to the first solo non-stop circumnavigation, will now start from Les Sables [...]
2018 Golden Globe Race – 365 days to Plymouth start
Dateline: Plymouth 30th June 2017. One year from today, up to 30 sailors will set out from Plymouth UK to recreate history at the start of a solo circumnavigation in small traditional long keeled yachts [...]
Susie Goodall secures DHL as primary sponsor for 2018 GGR entry
British yachtswoman Susie Goodall has secured DHL Express as her primary sponsor for her 2018 Golden Globe Race entry. Goodall (27) from Bournheath, Worcestershire, is the youngest among a 30-strong entry list and one of [...]
Book Description
Solo circumnavigation of the globe. Fewer than 300 sailors in history have accomplished it, less than the number of people who have climbed Mt. Everest, or even those who have gone to space. In 1990, Istvan Kopar set out to earn his place among this elite fraternity—and to do so with only one stop…
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About Captain Kopar
Despite growing up in a landlocked country behind the Iron Curtain, Istvan Kopar was determined from a young age to be a sailor and a circumnavigator. He is now recognized as one of the most accomplished sailors in the world, and has the accolades to prove it…
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