Mike Golding

Mike Golding

Mike Golding (born 27 August 1960 educated at Reading Blue Coat School) is an English yachtsman. He is one of the few yachtsmen to have raced round the world non stop in both directions. He held the solo record for sailing round the world westabout (the most challenging direction for circumnavigation) between 1994 and 2000.

Golding, who is a member of Royal Southampton Yacht Club, is the eponymous co founder of the commercial company Mike Golding Yacht Racing Ltd, a professional and competitive company whose goals are to compete and win on the water and to deliver. His partner in this venture is Jorgen Philip-Sorensen.

Golding led the team Group 4 to second place in the British Steel Challenge in 1992–3. He did one better in the next edition the BT Global Challenge 1996–7, taking first place with a new team of amateur sailors, again onboard Group 4.

Golding came seventh in the 2000–2001 Vendée Globe solo non stop round the world race having lost seven days to the dismasting of his Open 60, again called Group 4. His present Open 60 campaign is sponsored by Ecover, a Belgian ecological cleaning products company which has sponsored his team since 2001. In 2004 he won the IMOCA World Championship and successfully defended his title the following year, in which he also won the 2005 FICO World Championship.[1] In the 2004 Vendée Globe, Golding finished third despite losing his keel — an extremely serious accident which has caused boats in previous Vendée Globe races to overturn almost instantly — on the last day of the race. He sailed the last fifty miles with a tiny sailplan to keep the boat upright.[2]

In October 2006 he started the Velux 5 Oceans yacht race. He courageously rescued fellow sailor Alex Thomson in the Southern Ocean, then the yacht Ecover had a mast failure with them both aboard. He announced he was retiring from the race on making emergency landfall in Cape Town.[3]

In March 2007 Golding announced a technical partnership with fellow British sailor Dee Caffari to allow both the UK entries in the Vendée Globe 2008–9 round the world yacht race to work together.[4]

Golding is currently skippering the Ecover Sailing Team in the 2009 iShares cup, a selection of races all over Europe, sailing catamarans in fast, competitive races against world-leaders in this sport. The races will take place in Venice, Hyères, Cowes, Kiel, Amsterdam and Almeria.

With four races to go in the iShares cup event in Cowes Week (Isle of Wight), Golding's team had a disaster when their daggerboard broke. Incredibly, Golding managed to continue and complete the last four races without his dagger board and finished second in the last race. Despite his daggerboardless achievements, [5]

Golding lives with his wife and son in Warsash, Hampshire, near Southampton.

References

  1. ^ "Stamm wins leg as Golding quits". BBC. December 4, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/sailing/6206328.stm. 
  2. ^ "Golding's Grit Gets Ecover Home in Third". Nautica Online Press. 2005-02-07. http://www.nautica.it/service/notizie.htm?2005-02-35. 
  3. ^ "World Championship Crown for Mike". Royal Southampton Yacht Club. March 10, 2006. http://www.rsyc.org.uk/club/clubgoldingchampion.html. 
  4. ^ "Dee Caffari and Mike Golding form a technical alliance for the 2008 Vendée Globe". Aviva Ocean Racing. March 20, 2007. http://www.avivaoceanracing.com/index.asp?pageid=6&year=2007&newsid=23. 
  5. ^ "Ecover Extreme 40 Sailing Team". Ecover Sailing Team. July 30, 2009. http://www.ecoversailingteam.com/the-team,15,AP.html. 
  • 'Mike Golding', The Observer, 13 February 2006 (London).

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