A WORLD Cruise with a significant differencekicked off this week, with pax not enjoying the usual onboard comforts. That’s because it’s actually a round-the-world yacht race with some especially tricky rules. Participants in the Golden Globe Race must circumnavigate the world non-stop as the sole sailors aboard their vessels, which...
A WORLD Cruise with a significant differencekicked off this week, with pax not enjoying the usual onboard comforts.
That’s because it’s actually a round-the-world yacht race with some especially tricky rules.
Participants in the Golden Globe Race must circumnavigate the world non-stop as the sole sailors aboard their vessels, which must use technology available no later than 1968.
Described as “one of the world’s most challenging feats of human endeavour,” the 48,000km journey is likely to last about 10 months.
One of the vessels is backed by Abu Dhabi-based AI company Bayanat, which noted that “such is the scale of the task that fewer people have circumnavigated the world solo by boat than those who have reached the summit of Mount Everest or travelled to space”.
Frankly we’d prefer a cocktail by the pool.
