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The tracker’s scheduled 4-hourly transmission at 00:00, 04:00, 08:00, 12:00, 16:00 and 20:00 UTC.

The position a report carries: latitude, longitude and YB’s distance to finish.

No fix within 20 minutes of a report time. The boat keeps its last position in the ranking and is marked; a run crosses a missed report in a straight line and is then written ≥ (see “A run written ≥”). A boat is never called stopped.

Trackers do not all report in the same minute. A report is shown about five minutes after its hour with the positions that have arrived. A boat that had a position at the previous report and has none yet is marked “position awaited”, and the line above the title says how many boats are still to come; the next update, a few minutes later, fills it in. After twelve minutes a boat still silent has missed the report. While a position is awaited the boat keeps its last position in the ranking, so a boat close behind may stand one place too high for those minutes, and a 24-hour run printed in grey with “to 08:00” is that boat’s run to the last report its tracker sent. A report waits in full, twelve minutes at most, in two cases only: fewer than three quarters of the boats that reported last time are in, or the position still to come is the leader’s, from which every gap is measured.

Latitude and longitude in degrees and decimal minutes, e.g. 29°33.6′N 013°39.9′W.

Rank by distance to finish at the report time, as YB orders the fleet, among the boats still racing. ± 24 h is the places gained or lost since the report 24 hours earlier, counted among the boats that have a current position now and had one then: a boat whose tracker was silent at either end shows a dash, and no boat gains or loses a place against her.

Distance to finish, measured by YB along its course line. Gap (DTL) is this boat’s distance to finish minus the leader’s; interval is the same to the boat one place ahead. YB redrew its line on 22 September and again on 8 October 2026, and every figure on this site is on the current line: see “The course line, redrawn”.

The straight line between two consecutive fixes of one boat. Its great-circle distance divided by the time between the fixes is the leg’s average speed over the ground — a lower bound on true speed over ground (SOG), never boat speed through the water. A leg is never stretched across a missed report.

Distance sailed along the track over the six 4-hour legs ending at the report time. 7-day run: the same over 42 legs. A report the tracker missed in those hours: see “A run written ≥”. A boat that restarted shows “since restart” until it has seven days at sea. YB’s leaderboard has a 24-hour figure of its own, and it measures something else: the distance made good toward the finish, that is, how much the distance to finish fell in 24 hours. Ours is the distance sailed along the track, so it is the same or a little more.

On a skipper’s page: one bar per day, the miles sailed along the track from 12:00 UTC to 12:00 UTC the next day, noon to noon as a ship’s log keeps it, named by the day it ends. Until 1 October 2026 the bars ran 00:00 to 00:00 UTC. A report missed inside the day: the bar is written ≥ (see “A run written ≥”). No report at one of the day’s two noons: no bar, a dash (–). The records’ best 24-hour run is any 24 hours ending at a report, so it can exceed the biggest day.

On the Records page: the strongest model wind (the mean at a report, with the gust the model gave at that same report), the highest waves (significant height) and the longest calm (consecutive 4-hour reports under 6 kt of model wind; a missed report ends the spell) that each boat met, according to the model at her report position. Never measured on board, so they are what the boat met on paper: a skipper may have seen more, or less. The boards follow the page’s window; the table holds each boat’s own, for the whole race.

A boat’s fastest single leg and longest runs so far this race, start day excluded. A best leg lies between two consecutive reports. A best run is the 24 hours, or the seven days, ending at a report; where the tracker missed a report in them the run is written ≥ and still counts, because the boat sailed at least that far. Personal best (PB) is the boat’s own; fleet best the whole fleet’s. A new best is only announced once it is clear of a ≥ figure by more than a straight line could hide.

Nautical miles gained (+) or lost (−) on today’s leader over the last 24 hours, measured fix to fix on YB’s distance to finish. Blank for a boat without a current fix: a missed report is not a hundred miles lost. A skipper’s page gives the same figure against the boat one place ahead and the boat one place behind.

A 24-hour or 7-day run with a report the tracker missed in its window. Across a missed report the boat is credited with the straight line between the fixes either side of it; if the missing report is the window’s first, the run begins at the next one. Either way the boat sailed at least that far and probably further: a straight line across one missed report typically hides a fraction of a mile, a missing first report hides the four hours before the next. Such a run can be a record, written ≥ with the number of reports missed. It counts in averages and medians when it covers the full 24 hours; one that began late, its first report missing, is left out, because hours of sailing are missing from it. The Past races page counts only fully measured days throughout, best runs included, so that three years are set against each other by one rule, and the daily board names the biggest run by the same announcement rule, or else the biggest fully measured one. Everywhere else a ≥ run is ranked with its mark. A new best, or the fleet’s longest run of the day, is announced only once it is clear of a ≥ figure by more than a straight line could hide.

Every entrant starts in the Suhaili class (NOR C.2.1). A skipper who makes an unapproved stop, or receives material assistance, is placed in the Chichester class by the race and goes on sailing (NOR C.2.2). Day’s Run says so in one word beside the name and changes nothing else: the boat keeps her place in the ranking, her runs and her records, as the official tracker shows her.

A boat whose race has ended, by the race’s own announcement (entered by hand with its date, because the official tracker’s status can lag it by days) or by the official tracker’s status. From the report at which it ends, the boat is out of the ranking, the fleet’s count, the spread, the tally against the ghosts and the duels: the boats still racing are placed among themselves, and no boat gains a place by it. What she did while racing stays: her bests and the weather she met on the record boards, her sprints in the results, and her page, which shows the race as it stood at her last report. It is said once in What changed.

A boat’s 24-hour run minus the median run of the boats within 150 nm of her, which sail much the same weather. It takes the weather out of the comparison, near enough. A boat that is not moving is left out of that median, because she is sailing no weather at all. A run written ≥ that covers the full 24 hours counts. Blank for a boat whose own 24 hours began late, its first report missing or the start or a restart inside them, and such a run is left out of the others’ median. Blank with fewer than two such boats.

The distance from a boat to the nearest point of the track the leader sailed, and the compass side she lies on: the tactical bet, in one number.

Two boats next to each other in the ranking, both with a current fix, within 15 nm of each other in distance to finish. The line on a duel’s card is that gap at every 4-hour report of the last three days, fix to fix; it sits above “level” while today’s leader of the pair was ahead. A pass is reported once, when the new leader is two miles clear; nothing is reported in the first three days of the race, when the whole fleet is within a few miles. Two boats can be level to the finish and far apart on the water: that is a split, not a match race.

One screen made for the race’s daily live show, covering the 24 hours to the latest report. Each column is a boat’s 24-hour run built from its six 4-hour legs, the oldest at the foot; the gold block is the fastest single leg of the day in the whole fleet, and the white tick is the same boat’s run over the 24 hours before. “Personal best” marks a boat’s longest 24-hour run of the race so far. A hatched block is a stretch with the tracker silent: the run is then a straight line across it, the least the boat sailed. The biggest run is the boat the site announces as the fleet’s longest run of the day, written ≥ when a report was missed in her 24 hours; when no run is clear of the others’ ≥ figures, the board names the biggest fully measured run and says so. The fleet’s average also takes a run with a hatched block when it covers the whole 24 hours, and leaves out a run that began late and a boat that is not moving; the line on the leader leaves out a boat that is not moving too. The fastest leg is the highest average speed on any single 4-hour leg of the 24 hours.

On the Fleet ranking and each skipper’s page: the average speed over the newest 4-hour leg, between the last two reports, with an arrow for the course made good over that leg: where the boat went, up for north. It is not a heading and not the speed at this moment. Blank for a boat that missed the report, because a leg needs a position at both ends.

Average speed on a 4-hour leg divided by the model wind speed at the boat, over the legs sailed in 8–25 kt since the start (or the restart). Below 8 kt a heavy boat barely moves and above 25 kt she is reefed, so neither says much. It needs ten legs, and a leg the boat spent not moving is no part of it. The wind is a model value, not a measurement on board.

Each 4-hour leg is classed by the angle between the direction the model wind blows from and the course made good: upwind under 60°, reaching 60–130°, running over 130°. Course made good is not heading, so this separates upwind work from running well and cannot see a gybe angle.

Over the last 7 days: the spread (standard deviation) of 4-hour leg speeds, the share of legs at 5 kt or more, and the hours on legs under 2 kt.

Average leg speed between 20:00 and 06:00 local solar time, from the boat’s longitude, minus the average of the other legs, since the start. It needs six legs of each.

The fall in YB’s distance to finish over a window divided by hours; the 7-day value drives ETAs. YB’s leaderboard calls the same idea VMG (recent = the last five fixes, or since the start) and publishes it in km/h, which we convert to knots. Distance made good is the reduction since the start; distance sailed is the sum of 4-hour legs.

How fast the boat has closed on the finish over the last seven days, in knots: the fall in YB’s distance to finish divided by the hours. It is the speed that counted; her average speed over the same days is the speed she sailed. Shown for a boat with a current position and at least three days of the week behind her (after a restart the week starts again). Negative when she is sailing away from the finish.

Miles sailed along the track over miles made good toward the finish, less one: +5% means five miles in every hundred sailed did not shorten the distance to the finish. Given since the start and over the last seven days. It is no mark of bad sailing: beating to windward, going round a calm and steering for a routing waypoint all cost extra miles on purpose. The distance to the finish is YB’s, measured along its course line, which cuts the corner at a mark, so made good can briefly outrun the miles sailed: the figure is never shown below nought. Blank for a boat without a current position, for one making under 0.2 kt toward the finish, and, since the start, for a boat that restarted.

The first mark of the course, in the order of NOR C.1.3, that a boat has not yet passed. Every mark has a distance to finish of its own, the point of YB’s course line nearest to it; a boat has passed the mark once YB has shown it less distance to finish than that. So an island left to port, a Southern Ocean waypoint left hundreds of miles to starboard and a cape are all judged alike, abeam. A mark once passed stays passed. The distance shown is the great circle from the boat to the mark; to the finish it is YB’s distance to finish.

Estimated time of arrival at the next mark, UTC: distance to the mark divided by made-good speed over the last 7 days (from the restart for a restarted boat). It doesn’t know the Southern Ocean is faster.

A mark is anything the fleet must pass (the NOR’s waypoints): the Lanzarote inshore rounding mark, the Island of Trindade, the no-go zone corners, Cape Leeuwin, the Hobart Gate, Cape Horn, the finish line. Gates are Lanzarote and Hobart only — the inshore marks and crossing lines where film is dropped (NOR A.1.6). Checkpoints are YB’s own timing lines (eleven; their positions are not published) and a split is the elapsed time to one. Sprints are this site’s own elapsed times between two parallels, interpolated between fixes.

The 45°S, 49°S and 50°S waypoints of NOR C.1.3, labelled NO GO ZONE on the tracker: the fleet stays north of them, leaving each to starboard, except the last before Cape Horn, 50°S 90°W, which is left to port.

A return to Les Sables-d’Olonne and a new departure within 7 days of the start, with the Race Director’s prior authorisation (NOR C.1.2 “Re-Start”). Race time is not reset, so places are unchanged; speed, runs and ETAs for that boat count only from the restart.

GGR’s numbering: the UTC calendar date minus the start date (6 September = day 0, 7 September = Day 1), matching the daily video and written report.

A past voyage replayed by YB on this year’s calendar (its tag is “Previous Competitors”): Jean-Luc Van Den Heede 2018 (VDH), Kirsten Neuschäfer 2022, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Bernard Moitessier 1968–69. Ghost gap, in days: behind a ghost, how long ago its replay passed this boat’s distance to finish; ahead, how long until it will, at its pace over the last seven replay days.

Every entrant starts in the Suhaili Class. A stop or outside assistance moves a boat to the Chichester Class; a Suhaili entrant reaching Hobart after 12:00 local on 31 January 2027 becomes a GGR Voyager (NOR C.2). Retired boats keep their pages and records.

Model values from Open-Meteo at each report position, not measured on board. Wind is the hourly mean at 10 m and the gust, in knots, with the direction it blows from in degrees true; arrows point downwind. Force is Beaufort, derived from the rounded value shown (Force 8, a gale, is 34–40 kt). A gale day or light-wind day means every report of a UTC day at 34 kt or more, or under 6 kt. Waves are significant wave height, sea and swell combined; swell is given with its period. Current is the speed in knots and the direction it sets toward. Sea temp is sea-surface temperature; pressure is sea-level pressure in hPa.

Every number on this site can be downloaded from the Data page as Excel workbooks, one for each month of the race: a row per boat per day, and a row per boat per 4-hourly report. A day’s row closes at the 00:00 UTC report that follows it, and a day belongs to the month it was sailed in. Every month has the same columns in the same order, so months stack. A boat without a current fix keeps her last position with its true time, and the figures about her last 24 hours stay blank; a blank is never a zero. The positions are YB Tracking’s public feed and the weather is Open-Meteo’s; if you use the data, please follow their guidelines. Every column is explained on the Data page and inside each file.

The fleets of the Golden Globe Races of 2018 and 2022, every boat, from YB Tracking’s archives, measured by the same rules as this year’s, each fleet on the course it sailed. A race day is counted on each race’s own calendar: day 12 is the twelfth day after that year’s start.

The course’s length less YB’s own distance to finish, each fleet on the course it sailed: 26,506 nm this year since YB redrew its line on 8 October (25,755 until 22 September, 26,599 until 8 October), 26,003 in 2022, 25,100 in 2018. The fleets are compared race day for race day: early in a race they sail the same water and their miles can be set side by side; once the courses part, the share of each race’s own course is the fairer reading.

Miles made good as a share of that race’s own course. The three courses differ by up to 1,499 nm end to end, so the share says what the miles say without a reader holding three lengths in mind.

The boat with as many boats ahead as behind, among those still racing that day. As boats retire it moves up the fleet: late in a race it describes the survivors.

From the start until the boat finished or retired, by the race’s own record. A skipper who sailed on in the Chichester class after one stop is racing.

Model wind at each boat at the end of each 4-hour leg. For 2018 and 2022 it is Open-Meteo’s archive of the ECMWF model; for this year the model wind used on the rest of the site. A whole fleet shares its weather, so read a difference of a knot between years as nothing. Upwind, reaching and running are the site’s classes (under 60°, 60–130°, over 130°) by the course the boat made good over the four hours, not its heading: a boat hard on the wind makes good a course 50° to 70° off it, so the upwind share is a low figure.

A skipper of this race who started an earlier one, set against that race on the same race day.

Lanzarote and Hobart: the race’s own timing of the boat through its gate, from YB’s record; 2018 has no Lanzarote timing in that record. The equator, the Cape of Good Hope (18°28′E, south of 30°S) and Cape Horn (67°16′W, south of 50°S): the crossing, interpolated between the two fixes either side. The finish: the race’s own record. “Half the fleet past” is the day the boat that makes half the starters through passed the mark: the eighth of sixteen starters, the ninth of seventeen.

The distance between the northernmost and the southernmost boat of a fleet on one race day, in nautical miles of latitude (a degree is 60). It says how far the fleet is spread up and down the ocean, not how far apart the boats are: two boats on one parallel can be hundreds of miles apart east to west.

On a skipper’s page: the boat’s bests with their dates, the slowest full day, the highest and lowest place, and the weather met, for the whole race. The slowest full day is the smallest 24-hour run between 00:00 UTC snapshots with all six legs measured and a report at both midnights — a run written ≥ is the least the boat sailed, so it can be a best and never a slowest day — from the first full day after the start; a restarted boat counts from her restart. Places are read from the 00:00 UTC snapshots from the fourth race day on, the first three saying nothing while the whole fleet is within a few miles, and a day the boat’s own tracker was silent holds no place. A gold tag marks a fleet record; a grey one, the boat’s standing on a stored board.

On 22 September 2026, between 13:20 and 14:20 UTC, YB redrew its course line for this race: 389 of its 511 points were replaced from Trindade onwards by 400 new ones, curved towards the road the boats will sail, and the line grew from 25,755 to 26,599 nm (844 nm longer: Trindade and Lanzarote 844 nm further from the finish, Cape Horn 696, the Southern Ocean marks between the two). YB then recomputed its whole track on the new line, every moment of every boat 844 nm further from the finish than before, and so did this site: every stored distance was brought up to what YB’s track says now and the whole race was re-derived, so the race reads on one scale, the current line’s. What never depended on the line: gaps between boats, runs, records, sprints, places, and the miles to the next mark, which are measured on the water. What moved with it, for everyone alike: distance to finish, the marks’ distances to go, the ghosts, and the course’s length. Made good since the start is nearly unchanged, since the redrawn part lies ahead of the fleet. The figure the tracker showed at the Lanzarote mark as the fleet passed it, which the route choices are measured from, was lifted by the same 844 nm. On 8 October 2026 YB redrew the line again, 93 nm shorter: its points from off Cap Blanc to the southern Indian Ocean moved, and the line went from 26,599 to 26,506 nm. On 12 October, about 12:00 UTC, YB recomputed its whole track on it, and so did this site. This time it was not one shift for everyone. Every moment before the fleet reached the redrawn stretch reads 93 nm nearer the finish, the Lanzarote figure too. But the fleet sails 2 to 7 degrees west of the new line, and YB measures a boat off its line by its own reckoning, so boats inside the stretch moved by different amounts, and some places, gaps and miles made good from mid-September on changed with them, as on the race’s own leaderboard. Runs, records and sprints are measured on the water and did not move. In the same recompute YB stepped Mara’s distance to finish 201 nm further between the 08:00 and 12:00 fixes of 12 October without rewriting the track before them; the site reads it as the race does, and the feed says so.

The race’s own 24-hour video stream from the boats, one skipper at a time on a fixed weekly timetable in UTC, on YouTube. Eight boats carry the cameras. The timetable is copied from the race’s page (read 23 September 2026, valid to 25 October) and the site’s clock picks the boat live now and the next; nothing in your browser talks to YouTube or to the race’s site until you follow the link. When the race changes its timetable, this site follows on its next update.

Time the race adds to a boat’s race under its Notice of Race, shown on the skipper’s page with the race’s own date, words, rule and source: for a satellite-phone call not allowed by the rules, 24 hours for the first and 72 hours for each one after (NOR F.8.1). A penalty is served on the way home: in the North Atlantic the boat must stay south of a set latitude until the time is served (NOR F.2). Until then it changes no figure here: places, runs and records are the boat’s sailing. Time the race has suspended is not counted unless the race reinstates it. Entered by hand from the race’s announcements; when the race changes a penalty, this site follows on its next update.

On the Route choices page: a stretch of the course where the fleet took visibly different roads, such as north or south across the Bay of Biscay. A fork is defined once, by hand, and the same way for every year. It runs from an entry, which is the start or a mark (a boat reaches a mark at the moment her track passes closest to it), to an exit that is a point along the course in YB’s distance to finish: abeam a cape, or a set distance past the mark, counted from what the tracker showed at the mark. Each race is measured on its own course, and the exit is the same progress whichever road a boat took. Its sorting line is a line on the chart, the same for every year: a boat’s road is the side on which she first crossed it or, where the fleet spreads out only after the line, whether she ever sailed beyond it (in Biscay: north of 45°48′N, anywhere west of 5°W). A boat’s time through a fork runs from entry to exit; her time at each point is worked out between two reports four hours apart, so it is given in whole hours. Listed, and left out of the comparison: a boat whose race ended inside the fork, a boat that lay twelve hours or more at one place inside it, a boat that restarted where the fork begins at the start (her time then runs from her restart), and the boats still to come.

Two boats that took different roads at a fork and entered it within six hours of each other: the same weather, a different road. Where a fork begins at the start the whole fleet entered together, so every boat of one road is paired with every boat of the other. Two boats within half an hour of each other are level. A road is named as ahead when it wins at least two matched pairs in three, of at least three pairs, unless the other road has the lower median time by half an hour or more: the pairs decide, the medians can only object, and two medians within half an hour of each other are level. Otherwise the page says there is no clear winner, and shows the numbers all the same.

The mean model wind at a boat’s reports between her entry to a fork and her exit, and the share of those reports under 8 kt, which the page calls light air. For a road it is the mean over the boats in the comparison, each weighted by its number of reports. Model values from Open-Meteo (its archive of the ECMWF model for 2018 and 2022), never measured on board; a model does not see an island’s wind shadow or the acceleration along its shores.

Nautical miles (nm), knots (kt), degrees true, UTC. The Notice of Race speaks of GMT; for this race they are the same. Times are written 07:22 UTC; seconds appear only in YB’s splits.

On the Boats page: every boat on her design’s line, so that hulls are compared like with like. The window is 24 hours, 7 days or since the start. This race: the ranking’s own average speeds at the latest report; since the start is the miles sailed over the hours sailed, from the restart for a boat that restarted. 2018, 2022 and 2026: the three fleets read at 00:00 UTC of the same race day of each race, from the Past races page’s daily rows: 24 hours is that day’s 24-hour run, 7 days the miles sailed since the row a week earlier, since the start the miles sailed over the hours since the race’s start, or since the restart for a boat that restarted, as in This race. The same race day is not the same weather; over months the windows will say more than the day does. A boat racing that day with no figure at its report (her tracker missed it, or missed one inside the window) is drawn as an open circle at her latest day with one, up to a week back, and her box says which day; a boat no longer racing that day has no dot.

On the Boats page: every start of a design in the 2018 and 2022 races and how it ended, from the race’s own record (the Past races page names the source of every row). Finished means the race recorded a finish; a finish in the Chichester class, after a stop on the way, is a finish and is counted apart as well. The winner is the boat the race names the winner. This year’s boats are shown under This race: racing, in port for repairs, or retired; All told counts the two past races.

On a design’s page, at the head of each race: how many of her starts in that race passed each mark (Lanzarote in 2022 and 2026, the equator, the Cape of Good Hope, Hobart, Cape Horn), each by the boat’s own crossing of it, the same record as Milestone (past races). A notch in a boat’s bar is that crossing. A boat racing now counts only the marks she has passed so far.

On a design’s page, the sentence over the polar. In each wind band and angle sector of the polar table her median speed, over all her legs there, is set against the other designs’ medians in the races she sailed, each race weighted by her legs in that cell, so a design sailed mostly in one race is compared with that race’s boats and not with the years. Among the cells of 8 kt of wind and more where she and the other designs each have twenty legs or more, the sentence names where she was furthest ahead and furthest behind (or, when she was ahead or behind everywhere, the most and the least), ranked on the exact figure and printed to the whole per cent; with one such cell it names that one. Light air is left out because a heavy hull says least in it; a median of fewer than twenty legs swings too much to lead a section. Like every speed on that page it is over the ground, and the 2018 and 2022 legs cover each boat’s whole race.

How a boat or a design sails against the others in the same conditions, the sailor and the state of her hull included (a hull under barnacles counts as she was). On a design’s page each past race shows it over the whole race and, beside it, over the race’s first thirty days alone: a gap between the two is a boat that slowed or quickened as the race went on. Each of her 4-hour legs with a model wind, on which she was moving, is set against the median of the other boats’ (or the other designs’) legs of the same race in the same 3 kt of wind and 15° of angle, where at least five such legs exist; the figure is the median of those ratios, shown as faster (+) or slower (−) per cent, with the number of her legs it rests on, and it needs twenty. Upwind, reaching and running take the legs under 60°, 60–130° and over 130° off the wind. On the design pages and the Boats page it is over the ground, because the 2018 and 2022 races carry no ocean current; on the Performance page each boat’s figure takes the model current off. Over the three races each leg is set only against its own race’s legs. The wind is a model value, never measured on board.

On the Past races page, at the end: every start of 2018, 2022 and 2026 that ended early, with the reason written for it from the race’s own reports and the press (the sources are named on each design’s page). Each ending is counted once, in the row where its trouble began: a wind vane that broke, and then a knockdown in the storm that followed, counts for the wind vane. Anything else that had a part (what finally ended the race, and any factor its sources name plainly, such as barnacles that slowed a boat until her water ran out) is an open mark in its own row and is not in that row’s sum, so the solid marks add up to the endings. A stop the boat sailed on from, and a boat that withdrew before the start, are not counted.

Every design’s name on this page opens her own page: what she is and where she comes from, beside her figures; then her Golden Globes race by race, newest first, every start of hers since 2018 on one axis of days with how it ended and, under each that ended early, the reason, from the sources named at the foot; then her polars and like for like over the three races, and her strengths and weaknesses beside their evidence. A count there is a count of starts, not of hulls: a hull that raced twice is two starts, and the page names it as the same hull only where a named source says so: the race’s own skipper pages, or a report about the boat. The figures there are as printed by the sources named at the foot of each page, taken figure by figure from the highest source that prints it: the builder’s or designer’s own sheet, then the owners’ documents (an owners’ club or class association), then the race’s skipper pages, and among the race’s pages the figure most of her hulls agree on, several pages of one hull counting once. A figure none of these prints is taken from the best other sheet found, sailboatdata’s sheet or a copy of it, or a broker’s archive sheet, and named. Where good sources still disagree, the page keeps the figure this order gives and prints the other beside it, naming both. This race’s designs. Rustler 36: the builder’s brochure of 2006 and specification of 2012, the waterline as their 26 ft 11 in, 8.20 m (they also print 8.08 m, which is 26 ft 6 in; the race’s pages and YACHT print 8.21 m); the sail area from the race’s pages, the builder printing each sail but no total. Saltram Saga 36: the race’s pages for her two hulls; the ballast from sailboatdata; the years and number built from the Saltram Owners Club’s list of hulls. Cape George 36: the race’s pages and the 2022 winner’s own boat page, the ballast from the winner’s page. Tradewind 35: the builder’s pages; the waterline and displacement from the race’s pages, which the builder does not print; the ballast from sailboatdata. Vancouver 34: the race’s page; the draft and ballast from sailboatdata, which prints a quarter less sail than the race’s page. Baba 35: the dealer’s brochure kept by the owners’ association, the length with the rest; the years and number built from Sailing Magazine. Biscay 36: the race’s pages, the figures three hulls print against one; the ballast from sailboatdata. OE 32: the OE Yacht Club of Scandinavia, the owners’ club, for the sloop as drawn. Hans Christian 34: the race’s page, the draft, the years and the number built with it, as Practical Sailor’s specification prints them too. Tashiba 36: the designer’s sail plan of 15 January 1986 and the builder’s brochure. Endurance 35: the race’s pages for her three hulls; the ballast from sailboatdata. The designs of 2018 and 2022 that are not in this race. Gaia 36: the race’s page, which repeats sailboatdata’s sheet; the ballast from sailboatdata. Lello 34: the length from the race’s page, the rest from sailboatdata, since that page prints the Nicholson 32’s other figures. Nicholson 32: the Nicholson 32 Association’s specification, from its feet and long tons. Barbican 33 Mk II: the race’s page; the beam, ballast and sail area from Yachtsnet’s archive sheet, since the race’s page repeats her waterline as her beam and prints no sail area. Gale Force 34: the race’s page; the ballast from the sail data Good Old Boat reproduces, and the sail area from Listings Port. Suhaili replica: the designer’s own sheet for the Eric, with the sail area of the jib-headed rig Thuriya carried. Feet, pounds, square feet and long tons were converted at 0.3048 m, 0.4536 kg, 0.0929 m² and 1,016.05 kg. Hull speed is 1.34 × √(waterline in feet), the old rule of thumb for a heavy hull; displacement to length is displacement in long tons over (waterline in feet ÷ 100)³; sail area to displacement is sail area in square feet over (displacement in cubic feet of sea water)^⅔. Lengths are printed to the centimetre and areas to a tenth of a square metre, whatever the source’s own precision, and the ratios are worked from the figures as printed.

On the designs’ pages: 1.34 × √(waterline in feet), in knots, the old rule of thumb for how fast a heavy displacement hull can go. It comes from the waterline alone. It is not a prediction of a boat’s speed: sail area, displacement and the sailor are not in it. What the boats have really sailed is on the same pages, measured from the tracker.