mike golding
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Mike Golding on board his newly modified IMOCA Open 60
yacht, Gamesa, will once again take on the ‘Everest of the Oceans’
racing round the world, solo and without stops in the Vendée
Globe.
Mike Golding and the Vendée Globe 2012
For approximately 90 days, Mike will be racing Gamesa, a 60ft, 8
tonne, hi-tech yacht at significant speeds through some of the
world’s toughest oceans. His mission: to become the first Briton to
win the Vendée Globe - the most challenging, single-handed,
non-stop round the world race.
Gamesa, a global technology leader in the wind industry,
embraces this partnership with Mike as it moves forward with its
ambitious plans in the UK offshore wind market: launching two
offshore platforms and investing over 150 million euro in research
and manufacturing.
About Mike Golding
Mike Golding is one of
the world’s most accomplished and successful offshore sailors with
over 250,000 sailing miles and podium success in many of the
world’s toughest and most extreme yacht racing events.
A ‘Man with a Passion’, Mike will once again be on the start
line of the Vendée Globe in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, on 10
November 2012 with his IMOCA Open 60 Gamesa. His mission: to become
the first Briton to win this most
challenging single-handed, non-stop, round the world race.
A former career fire-fighter, Mike turned to professional
sailing following his dominating campaign and overall win in the BT
Global Challenge 1996/7, a crewed round the world race.
He
has subsequently achieved podium positions in premier sailing
events including the Vendée Globe (solo non-stop round the world),
The Transat (solo Atlantic East-West), Defi Atlantique (solo
Atlantic crossing West-East), the Route du
Rhum (solo Atlantic crossing East-West), The Transat Jacques Vabre
(double handed, transatlantic) and the Calais Round Britain and
Ireland.
Mike has held and holds several world records, including the
first person to have raced round the world in both directions. He
is known as the ‘King of the South’ having set many speed records
in the Southern Ocean. In 2007, Mike was awarded the OBE for
services to sport (sailing).
Career Highlights
• IMOCA World Champion*
2004 /5 & 2005 /6
• FICO World Champion** 2005/6
• First person to have raced round the world both ways
• Raced round the world five times
• Three times round the world solo
• Three Vendée Globe races, third in 2004/05
• Seven consecutive Transat Jacques Vabre races
• Winner of the BT Global Challenge Round the World 1996/7
• Awarded OBE for services to sailing in 2007
World Records – ‘King of the South’
•
Record holder - 1994 – 2001 - single-handed, non-stop record
breaking circumnavigation west to east against the
prevailing winds and currents
• Record holder - fastest single-handed, monohull crossing of South
Pacific Ocean 16 days 5 hours 26 minutes - set in 2005
• Record holder - fastest single-handed, monohull crossing of
Indian Ocean 14 days 2 hours 1 minute - set in 2004
• Record holder - fastest single-handed, transatlantic crossing
east to west 12 days, 15 hours - set in 2004
Don't miss the chance to wave bon voyage to Mike
Golding and his 60ft boat Gamesa before he sets of on his Vendée
Globe - at the Show Friday Public Preview day 14 September on berth
M534
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