Team Blog
15.12.0915th December
posted by Harry McGougan
15th Dec
The last few days has seen us power reaching across the Atlantic underneath a large depression that cam off the US last Thursday. it has »
25/11/09: Javier Sanso - TJV Arrival
22.01.10A FAREWELL TRIBUTE TO MR JØRGEN PHILIP-SØRENSEN CBE (1938 - 2010)
It was with great sadness that we learned that our long time friend, supporter and owner of Mike Golding Yacht Racing Ltd, Mr. Jørgen Philip-Sørensen CBE passed away on Monday January 18th, in Switzerland. He died at the age of 71 after succumbing to a long battle with illness.
30.11.09A LOOK BACK AT THE RACE
Mike Golding collected the third place award at the Transat Jacques Vabre prize-giving over the weekend in Puerto Limon. It is the third time that Golding has finished third, but this one was especially hard earned, along with his co-skipper Javier ‘Bubi’ Sanso.
25.11.09GOLDING AND SANSO ON PODIUM
Golding and Javier Sanso finished the Transat Jacques Vabre on a perfect Caribbean morning, arriving into Costa Rica’s historic Puerto Limon – where in 1502 Christopher Columbus landed – to secure a hard won third place in race which winner Marc Guillemot had described as the toughest of his career.
25.11.09GOLDING AND SANSO FINISH 3RD IN THE TRANSAT JACQUES VABRE
British sailor Mike Golding, sailing with Spanish co-skipper Javier Sanso on their 60 foot IMOCA Open 60 Mike Golding Yacht Race crossed the finish line off Costa Rica’s historic Puerto Limon at 14h 59mins 38sec GMT (08.59 local time) to secure third place in the biannual Transat Jacques Vabre double-handed race
25.11.09THE LAST FEW MILES
Mike Golding and Javier Sanso have chosen to sail their final miles under furtiv mode ....
23.11.09RUNNING BLIND
Communication with the Open 60 Mike Golding Yacht Racing has all but shut down over the last 24 hours since skipper Golding reported that they now have no electrical charging working and can no longer start the engine.
22.11.09THE FINAL MILES
Sluicing downwind off the coast off the coast of Columbia and Venezuela Mike Golding lies in third place in the Transat Jacques Vabre and is squaring away the idea that, with a big gap ahead and anequal gap behind, he and co-skipper Javier Sanso may have to be content with third place.
