Goodchild takes on the Southern Ocean in the Global Ocean Race

Artemis Offshore Academy sailor Sam Goodchild will be taking on the Southern Ocean in the double-handed Global Ocean Race with Conrad Colman onboard the 40-ft monohull, Cessna Citation. At just 22 years of age, Goodchild will be the youngest sailor competing in the 7,500nm leg from Cape Town (South Africa) to Wellington (New Zealand), starting at 12:00 (GMT) this Sunday (27th November).

explained Goodchild, who was asked by Colman to compete in the second leg of the Global Ocean Race on his 22nd birthday. “I am excited to sail with Conrad as he has a great racing background, slightly different to mine, but I think we can come together and make a great team.” The six international Class 40 teams, who started leg one of the Global Ocean Race in September from the island of Majorca, will have to negotiate some of the most treacherous waters on earth to get to Wellington. Icebergs, huge waves that circle the globe unchallenged by any land mass, freezing temperatures and large low-pressure systems will test these duos to their limit over four weeks at sea. The race organiser has implemented a mandatory southern limit for leg two of 42 degrees South due to an unusual frequency of ice drifting north.