15 sailors, 13 men and 2 women from eight countries set out from the National Sailing Academy in Antigua on September 23 2025, sailing ALMA Class Globe 580 home-built 19ft plywood yachts. They raced west about via all the oceans of the world
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On Thursday 19th February 2026 at 2pm local time, eleven ALMA Class Globe 580 Mighty Mini’s racing in the McIntyre Mini Globe Race set sail from Recife in Brazil on the last 2300-mile leg of a 24,000-mile solo race around the planet.
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The McIntyre Mini Globe Race’s fourth and final leg—a 6,100 - nautical-mile odyssey from Cape Town to Antigua—delivered its most varied phase yet as the fleet traversed the South Atlantic from the remote outpost of Saint Helena to the vibrant Brazilian coast at Recife
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Heather Thomas and her all-women Maiden crew have been crowned the 2023 McIntyre Ocean Globe champions during a lavish mid-summer day poolside prize-giving party, hosted by and at Marco Trombetti’s Translated villa headquarters in Rome.
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They just kept coming! Nothing could, or would stop them. The McIntyre Ocean Globe has truly shown the depth of human stories over the past eight months and this story is a classic.
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