Sailing Uma: ‘How we built an electric sailboat to take us around the world’
Katy Stickland talks to Sailing Uma’s Dan and Kika Deckert about the three year refit of their 1972 Pearson 36 for an all-electric circumnavigation of the globe
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This video is a great capture of what sailing around the horn in a traditional vessel is like.
This would be very similar to Ringle, except perhaps a bit longer. Some great footage of the big waves in a blow south of the Horn.
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Solo Sailor Greg Were returns to Falmouth after extraordinary Round-the-World Voyage
Solo sailor Greg Were is set to return to Falmouth late today on 7 August or early 8 August 2026, completing an extraordinary circumnavigation of the globe in his 20-foot sailing boat Hummingbird.
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Istvan Kopar Sets Sail on His Anniversary Challenge
On Saturday, July 4th at 10 AM, Istvan Kopar cast off from Fort Lauderdale (Florida, USA) aboard Surprise, bound for Les Sables d’Olonne, France. It’s the first leg of a journey that will eventually become his fourth circumnavigation and one of the most ambitious solo sailing feats attempted in recent memory.
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SV Artemis: The Wheelchair Accessible Dazcat Rounding the World
Tom Hughes was a British Army captain who had just returned from a tour of Afghanistan when a rugby injury in 2011 left him paralysed. Doctors told him he would never walk again.
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