After sailing around the world single-handed Cork’s Polish/Irish sailor, Jakub Ziemkiewicz, has decided to change his mind from never racing alone again on such a voyage.
He is starting a four-year campaign to enter the McIntyre Golden Globe Race, also solo, but a non-stop circumnavigation – “the ultimate challenge, single-handed, no electronics, no GPS,” he told me.
In the smallest location in which I’ve recorded an interview - the cabin of his home-built plywood 19ft. yacht BIBI - in which he finished sixth in the McIntrye 580 mini-globe world race, he said he would sell her to raise money for a bigger boat.
Tiny Cabin — Tom MacSweeney interviews Jakub Ziemkiewicz aboard his home-built 19ft yacht BIBI in Aghada after the Polish-Irish sailor completed the Mini Globe Race and revealed plans for the Golden Globe Race
“Going again is my next logical challenge because I love the sea. I belong more to the sea than the land and am more at home on it than on the land,” he said when I talked to him in Aghada, Cork Harbour where local people had given him a welcome home.
Pat Lawless
Kerry sailor Pat Lawless is hoping to become the first Irish person to complete the Golden Globe race,
As Afloat has already reported, Kerry sailor Pat Lawless is hoping to become the first Irish person to complete the Golden Globe race, after missing out on his first attempt four years ago. This year’s race will begin in Les Sables-d’Olonne on September 6.
29 sailors from 10 countries have entered.
He was in third-place in 2022, but the self-steering on his boat failed two-and-a-half months into his voyage.
