Pushing the Boat Out

Round the world races.

Every race round the world, in date order down the page: the amateur crews of the Clipper, the solo IMOCA fleet of the Vendée Globe, the professional teams of The Ocean Race, the sextant-only Golden Globe and Ocean Globe, the Ultim trimarans and the Jules Verne record window. Dates and ports are the organisers' own; the ones they have not yet confirmed are marked provisional. Skip to what is at sea now ›

Last checked 19 October 2026 · 14 races

2025

23 February 2025
Antigua
Finished

McIntyre Mini Globe Race

First edition, 2025–26 · McIntyre Adventure

Solo, in stages, with stopovers. Class Globe 5.80: 19 ft plywood boats the skippers built themselves.

Westabout via Panama, the Pacific, Australia, the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope; about 24,000 miles.

Won by Renaud Stitelmann (Switzerland, Capucinette), who took every leg, in 180 days 11 hours. Eleven of the fifteen starters finished.

Finish: March 2026, Antigua · Official site ›

31 August 2025
Portsmouth
Finished

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race

2025–26 edition · Clipper Ventures

Fully crewed by paying amateurs, professional skipper and first mate, eight legs. Ten identical Clipper 70s.

Portsmouth, Puerto Sherry, Punta del Este, Cape Town, Fremantle, Airlie Beach, Subic Bay, Qingdao, Tongyeong, Seattle, Panama, Washington DC, Oban, Portsmouth; about 40,000 miles.

Won by Team GOSH, skipper Oli Irvine and first mate Otto Kurlow, the youngest pairing to win it, with seven stage wins out of thirteen.

Finish: 25 July 2026, Portsmouth · Official site ›

14 September 2025
Cádiz
Finished

Globe40

Second edition, 2025–26 · Sirius Évènements

Double-handed, in legs with stopovers. Class40.

Eastabout round the three capes in six legs, after a prologue from Lorient.

Won by Crédit Mutuel, Ian Lipinski and Antoine Carpentier, by two hours from Team Belgium Ocean Racing – Curium after seven months at sea.

Finish: 15 April 2026, Lorient · Official site ›

December 2025
Ushant
Finished

Jules Verne Trophy

2025–26 season · Trophée Jules Verne association

Crewed non-stop record round the world, start and finish on a line off Ushant. Maxi multihulls.

Eastabout round the three capes; the record is the time, not the route.

Thomas Coville's Sodebo Ultim 3 set a new record of 40 days 10 hours 45 minutes, beating Francis Joyon's 2017 mark by more than twelve hours. The next day The Famous Project CIC became the first all-female crew to sail a maxi multihull non-stop round the world.

Finish: 25 January 2026, Ushant · Official site ›

2026

6 September 2026
Les Sables-d'Olonne
Racing now

McIntyre Golden Globe Race

Fourth edition, 2026–27 · McIntyre Adventure

Solo, non-stop, no outside assistance, 1968 rules: sextant and paper charts, no GPS or satellite routing. Production long-keel cruisers of 32 to 36 ft designed before 1988.

Eastabout via the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn; about 30,000 miles, seven to eight months.

Sixteen skippers started. Damien Guillou (Rustler 36 Solarem) led through the Lanzarote gate and into the South Atlantic; Pat Lawless, his closest pursuer, retired on 18 October with a broken Solent stay. The first boats are expected home in the spring of 2027. We follow it day by day on our tracker page.

Finish: April 2027, Les Sables-d'Olonne · Official site › · Our progress tracker ›

November 2026
Ushant
Record window

Jules Verne Trophy

2026–27 season · Trophée Jules Verne association

Crewed non-stop record round the world, start and finish on a line off Ushant. Maxi multihulls.

Eastabout round the three capes. Crews go on stand-by in Brest and leave when the weather window opens, usually between November and January.

The time to beat is Sodebo Ultim 3's 40 days 10 hours 45 minutes from January 2026. No team had announced a stand-by for this winter when this page was last checked.

Finish: February 2027, Ushant · Official site ›

2027

17 January 2027
Alicante
Coming up

The Ocean Race

15th edition, 2027 · The Ocean Race

Fully crewed professional teams, five legs with stopovers. IMOCA 60s.

Alicante to Auckland non-stop (14,000 miles, the longest leg in the race's history), then Itajaí via Cape Horn, St Pete-Clearwater, Cascais and a finish at AMAALA on the Red Sea. Stopovers: Auckland 20 February to 14 March, Itajaí 31 March to 18 April, St Pete-Clearwater 4 to 16 May, Cascais 26 May to 6 June, finish 1 to 5 July.

The successor to the Whitbread and Volvo Ocean Race. The race village opens in Alicante on 8 January.

Finish: 5 July 2027, AMAALA, Saudi Arabia · Official site ›

August 2027
Vigo
Coming up

Global Solo Challenge

Second edition, 2027–28 · Marco Nannini

Solo, non-stop, pursuit format: slower boats start first, groups leave from August to December so that the fleet should finish together. Any seaworthy monohull of 32 to 60 ft, grouped by rating.

Eastabout round the three capes; about 26,000 miles. The fastest boats take around 70 days, the slowest more than 200.

Hosted by the Real Club Náutico de Vigo. Twenty-three skippers from fourteen countries had entered by February 2026. Exact start days for each group are still to be published.

Finish: March 2028, Vigo · Official site ›

31 August 2027 provisional
Portsmouth
Coming up

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race

2027–28 edition · Clipper Ventures

Fully crewed by paying amateurs, professional skipper and first mate, in legs. The new Clipper RX, making its debut.

Full route to be announced. St Thomas (US Virgin Islands) and St John's (Newfoundland) are confirmed as new host ports.

Applications are open. The 31 August start date appears in race listings and French coverage but has not been confirmed by Clipper.

Finish: July 2028, Portsmouth · Official site ›

12 September 2027
Europe, port to be confirmed
Coming up

McIntyre Ocean Globe Race

Second edition, 2027–28 · McIntyre Adventure

Fully crewed, four legs with stopovers, in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread: sextant and paper charts, no GPS or electronic routing. Classic ocean racers and production yachts of the Whitbread era.

Europe to Cape Town (leg 1, 7,800 miles); Cape Town to Auckland from 14 November 2027; Auckland round Cape Horn to Punta del Este from 23 January 2028; Punta del Este to Europe from 13 March 2028, finishing between 9 and 18 April.

Nine teams entered so far. Several are looking for paying crew.

Finish: 9 April 2028, Europe, port to be confirmed · Official site ›

2028

January 2028 provisional
Brest
Coming up

Arkéa Ultim Challenge – Brest

Second edition, 2028 · OC Sport Pen Duick

Solo, non-stop, no assistance. Ultim trimarans, 32 m.

Eastabout round the three capes; about 24,000 miles. The 2024 winner, Charles Caudrelier, took just over 50 days.

Confirmed for January 2028 on 7 July 2026; local reports expect a start on Saturday 8 January with the village open from after Christmas. Seven or eight boats are expected against six in 2024.

Finish: March 2028, Brest · Official site ›

October 2028 provisional
Spain, port to be confirmed
Coming up

Globe40

Third edition, 2028–29 · Sirius Évènements

Double-handed, in legs with stopovers. Class40.

Eastabout round the three capes in legs; route to be announced.

Announced in August 2026 for an October 2028 start in Spain and an April 2029 finish in Lorient.

Finish: April 2029, Lorient · Official site ›

12 November 2028
Les Sables-d'Olonne
Coming up

Vendée Globe

11th edition, 2028–29 · SAEM Vendée

Solo, non-stop, no assistance. IMOCA 60s, up to 40 of them.

Eastabout via the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn; about 24,000 miles. Charlie Dalin's 2025 record is 64 days 19 hours.

Start at 13:02 on Sunday 12 November 2028. Entries close on 10 September 2027; skippers qualify through the IMOCA Globe Series, starting with the Vendée Arctique in June 2026.

Finish: January 2029, Les Sables-d'Olonne · Official site ›

2029

2029 provisional
To be confirmed
Coming up

McIntyre Mini Globe Race

Second edition, 2029 · McIntyre Adventure

Solo, in stages, with stopovers. Class Globe 5.80.

About 28,000 miles over roughly a year; route to be announced.

Entries are open, limited to twenty boats; five had signed up when this page was last checked.

Finish: To be confirmed · Official site ›

About this calendar

Round-the-world races only: no transatlantics, no round-Britain, no Fastnet. Each entry links to the organiser, who has the notice of race, the entry list and the tracker. Finished editions stay on the page for a season so the results are to hand. Spotted a change? Tell the editor.