FALMOUTH is now confirmed as the start and finish point for the Golden Globe Race, with the National Maritime Museum Cornwall playing host to the event.
The museum is putting on a major exhibit in 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.
Competing yachts will be based in Pendennis Marina, and the race will be started using the historic gun emplacement on Pendennis Point overlooking Falmouth harbour.
Sailors from America, Australia, Britain and France head the preliminary entry list for the solo round the world race. The event commemorates the 50th anniversary of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s pioneering victory in the Sunday Times Golden Globe race back in 1968/9 which led to the British yachtsman becoming the first person to sail solo non-stop around the globe.
The 24 men and one woman – Britain’s Susie Bundegaard Goodall – have each paid an initial $3,000 entry fee, though some names remain confidential until sponsorship announcements are made later this year. Other entrants hail from Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Palestine, Russia and Switzerland.
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