Around Alone News

Around Alone Goes Home 14 November 2001
	The 20th anniversary/6th edition of Around Alone
will once again start from Newport Rhode Island.  Around
Alone started from Newport in 1982, '86 and 1990.
	From Newport it's a transat to England, thence
to Cape Town.  A  Southern Ocean leg to New Zealand and
then past Cape Horn to Salvador Brazil.
	This will give Around Alone a paper distance of
28,800 miles. The new 1st leg essentially a west to east
trans at will add around 11 to 17 days of sailing.  The
rest of the course is pretty well known. England to
South Africa around 30 to 35 days, Cape Town to New
Zealand 28 days, New Zealand to Brazil 27 to 28 days
and Brazil to Newport around 25 days.  Total winning
elapsed time should be around 127 days still less
than Phillipe Jeanot's winning time in the '82 and
'86 races.
	A more minor note, the new Around Alone
organizers seem to be off on  a bit of a different
marketing/linguistic tangent.  They are referring to
competitors as 'lone sailors' rather than single handers
or solo sailors.
	Great Lakes Around Alone entry Everest Horizontal
is enroute to a winter base in Charleston South Carolina.
The Open 50 has traveled on her own bottom through the
Great Lakes.  This winter Tim Kent will undertake his
official 2,000 mile qualifying sail.
	Another American entry Mission America headed
by veteran Brad Van Liew is also at sea.  He is
delivering his recently acquired Finot Open 50 across
the Atlantic.