This is one of those moments where you can feel the future arriving. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race has officially unveiled its next-generation yacht, the Clipper RX, and I am genuinely thrilled about what this means for the race, the crews, and the adventures still to come. This…
There are a lot of things you expect to think about when preparing for an offshore race. Navigation. Safety. Training. Sail handling. What you do not always expect is how much time you will spend thinking about sleep. Or more specifically, how to sleep well in a place that never…
Before there is a start line, a crew list, or a race route, there is the boat. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is built around a single yacht design created for one purpose: to safely take everyday people offshore and across some of the most demanding waters on…
When I tell people that I am sailing Leg 7 of the 2027 to 2028 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, the first reaction is usually excitement followed immediately by, “How do you even train for something like that?” The honest answer is that you take it one steady step…
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race began the year I was born and somehow, it feels like fate. The Clipper Race and I share a milestone: 1996. The year I took my first breath is the same year the first Clipper crews pushed off into the unknown, powered by…