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Yachting Monthly 0shares Organisers of the OSTAR and TWOSTAR have confirmed the transatlantic races will go ahead as planned in May 2021 The 2017 OSTAR was the last race to be held. Credit: Paul Gibbins The MailASail OSTAR and TWOSTAR will go ahead as planned in May 2021. Organisers the Royal Western Yacht Club (RWYC), confirmed this morning that they are “confident” they can provide a “COVID safe start and finish” to the 3,000 mile corinthian races, which start on 9 May from Plymouth. It follows “continual communication with the Newport Yacht Club, our Finishing hosts,” said the club in a statement. The solo and double-handed races were originally due to start from Plymouth in May 2020, to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the first OSTAR in 1960.
Yachting Monthly 0shares Taylor Grieger and Stephen O’Shea faced pirates, navigated the Furious Fifties and came to blows during a life-changing voyage from Florida around Cape Horn Taylor Grieger and Stephen O'Shea round Cape Horn in their Watkins 36CC, Ole Lady after a 15 month voyage from Florida to raise awareness of PTSD amongst US veterans. Credit: Taylor Grieger & Stephen O’Shea ‘We were in Roatán, Honduras heading back to Ole Lady when a comment from Taylor about my mishandling of a line resulted in us punching each other in the face. ‘He knocked me onto my back, and I knocked Taylor off the dinghy. He didn’t stop, though. He got me in a chokehold from the water, pulling me down from below.
Yachting Monthly 0shares Mervyn Wheatley looks ahead to his sixth OSTAR, now re-scheduled to take place in 2021, and ponders the changes in sailing through his decades-long career Mervyn Wheatley had sailed 18 Atlantic crossing ahead of the 2017 OSTAR. Credit: Paul Gibbins For Mervyn Wheatley, the 2020 Original Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) was to be his swan song, his final race. But as with much sport during the pandemic, the OSTAR, due to set off from Plymouth in May, has been postponed until 2021. In a remarkable offshore sailing career that has made him a hero among Corinthian ocean sailors, Mervyn Wheatley has competed both singlehanded and with crews, as well as cruising extensively across oceans and in coastal waters.