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The current position of GLOBAL is at West Mediterranean reported 2 hours ago by AIS. The vessel is en route to the port of La Ciotat, France , and expected to arrive there on Sep 8, 10:30 . The vessel GLOBAL (IMO 1008700, MMSI 319173000) is a Yacht built in 2006 (18 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Cayman Islands .

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GLOBAL current position and history of port calls are received by AIS. Technical specifications, tonnages and management details are derived from VesselFinder database. The data is for informational purposes only and VesselFinder is not responsible for the accuracy and reliability of GLOBAL data.

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As you are aware of our migration project of FleetMon into MarineTraffic, we have almost finalized all necessary steps. The discontinuation of all FleetMon product offerings is imminent.

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If you need any last-minute transfer of your MyFleet or MyAreas please contact us, and we will assist you in a smooth transfer and minimise any disruptions for you.

We are excited to inform you about the merger between FleetMon and MarineTraffic, which will give you more services and tools in your online account. To make sure you have a seamless and effortless transition, our FleetMon Support Team will be taking care of the process for you.

We will create a new MarineTraffic account using the information from your FleetMon account. This includes your username, name, email address, address, telephone and mobile number, as well as your company name and affiliation (if applicable). After you log in to your new MarineTraffic account, we kindly ask you to reset your password for added security. Of course, you will continue to be able to use your FleetMon account for the time being (we will let you know the next steps about this at a later date).

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Core features of our ship tracker app

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Track ships live: all AIS-enabled vessels

• Combine Satellite AIS and Terrestrial AIS data
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• Segment vessels by type, subtype, cargo, and more
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Historical position ship tracking

• Display specific vessel positions, routes and associated historical AIS data
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Vessel tracking by name & other fields

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View and filter: global ship tracker

• View live global vessel maps and detect patterns and anomalies
• Color-code vessels by a variety of data - vessel type, speed, data source and more
• Target vessels geographically by customized boundaries or inside specific EEZs
• Build and combine complex filters by data type rules
• Import/export filter sets with our global ship tracker

Extend your maritime app using 3rd party data

• Add a variety of intercompatible 3rd party layers to your maritime app
• Import Spire Weather layers, ideal to combine AIS data with live and historical weather forecast
• Load any OGC-compliant WMS service, Esri maps or Tiled Map Services

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• Set-up alerts on specific fields, vessel statuses, positions and more
• Target specific vessels or vessel types for easy ship tracking
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• Get alerted by email or internal ShipView alerts

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Data access

ShipView combines satellite and terrestrial AIS data for a comprehensive global view of the shipping. ShipView allows users to plot and visualize the latest vessel positions, view essential information - including speed and course - and gain access to three years of historical track data for each ship within ShipView. Access to this data improves the tracking and monitoring of ship activities worldwide by providing dynamic and up-to-date information from the world’s most comprehensive satellite AIS service.

Web-based interface to track a ship

ShipView users have access to the web ship app anywhere and on most devices, from desktop to mobile, giving them the flexibility to work where and when they need to.

There is no need for setup or an in-house application as a web-based application; Spire Maritime hosts the entire platform and all data on our tracking website.

Ship search

Individual ship search can be done through single line query by name, IMO number, Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI), Call Sign, Flag, or destination.

This simplified search process helps find ships of interest easily and quickly.

Find a ship through filtering

Users can add, edit or delete rules and groups based on any vessel attribute available, such as vessel type, speed, or flag, to filter global ship traffic and find a ship that matches your specific criteria.

Users can import or export filters as needed, making operational decisions quickly by creating more targeted analysis and research.

Download & Save Data

Users can quickly analyze reviews or report on ship information while offline. Datasets of ship information, in standard formats, can promptly be downloaded for either all ships globally or ships within a current view.

Custom areas, polygons & geofencing

ShipView™ users can draw, import and manage their own polygons of interest, then filter vessels inside these areas. This feature can be coupled with the alerting functionality, enabling geo-fencing alerts when any ships leave or enter the user's bookmarked areas, or with the download & save data, for extracting ship lists inside those polygons.

Alerts for tracking ships

With the ShipView alerting feature, users have more flexibility for monitoring and tracking ships or areas of interest within any maritime domain. Users can set up filters based on specific rules or groups for ship behaviours. Automatic alerts can be triggered to deliver the targeted information directly via email or within the alerts panel in ShipView.

Spire Weather layers

Spire Weather WMS layers are available in ShipView™ and can be added to your views. Combine weather layers with AIS for a more complete view of the maritime domain; choose between 14 weather variables in the measuring unit of your choice and in a style that fits with the underlying maps and other layers in your view.

OGC or Esri External Map Layers

ShipView™ was designed for interoperability, allowing users to load any Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web map service, Esri map and Feature, or Tiled Map Service as a map layer or base map. With access to these services, users can gain contextual insight to make more informed decisions by incorporating maritime-specific information such as wave height, ice coverage, weather and other data sets.

Who is the ShipView™ maritime app useful for?

ShipView is the perfect solution for anyone looking to track a vessel or fleet, as well as understanding their behavior historically. If you are looking for a vessel or boat tracker app that is fully hosted and ready to use, ShipView™ is perfect for you.

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Identify and act against illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing (IUU), and overfishing. Add Spire or custom polygons (zones marking a specific area of interest) to understand fishing effort and increase transparency for vessel activity in regulated areas.

Study the impacts of fishing, identify vulnerable fishing areas, and evaluate the effectiveness of conservation and fisheries policies.

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What is AIS

Automatic Identification System (or AIS) is an automatic maritime tracking system used by vessels to broadcast their position, identification, and other information to other vessels in their vicinity, ports, and coastal ground stations. AIS had been a mandatory requirement in commercial shipping since 2004 for all vessels that weigh over 299 gross tons (GT) and operate internationally.

AIS Objectives

The primary objectives of AIS are:

• Collision Avoidance & Maritime Situational Awareness
• Vessel Identification & Port Traffic Management

AIS Transmissions

AIS uses the VHF band for transmission operates principally on two dedicated frequencies or Very High Frequency channels (VHF channels):

• AIS 1: Operates on the 161.975 MHz- Channel 87B (Simplex – Ship to Ship).
• AIS 2: Operates on the 162.025 MHz- Channel 88B (Duplex – Ship to Ground Stations).

To meet the high broadcast rate AIS uses Self Organizing Time Division Multiple Access (STDMA) technology.

AIS Data & Reports

AIS reports include the vessel’s name, MMSI number, IMO number type, size, navigational data, destination port, speed over ground, and other voyage information. Presently, satellites are employed to receive and broadcast AIS data, this makes tracking vessels highly reliable and accurate.

Vessels fitted with AIS transceivers can be tracked by other vessels with an AIS transceiver or nearby ground stations. By transmitting AIS vessel positions to coastal stations and maritime traffic surveillance centers on the coast, monitoring and guidance of ship traffic can be performed. AIS also enables coast guards and government agencies to monitor illegal fishing, and potential incursions.

Applications

• Collision avoidance
• Search and rescue
• Fleet and cargo tracking
• Maritime security
• Fishing fleet monitoring and control
• Accident investigations

How does it work?

AIS transponders on board the vessel continuously and automatically transmit AIS data (position, navigation & identification data) at periodic intervals via VHF. The VHF signals, containing the respective vessels AIS data is received by AIS transponders fitted on other ships or on land-based systems, such as VTS systems. This data is then displayed either on a chart plotter showing the positions of the other vessels or on a radar display.

A vessel’s positional and velocity data are obtained from the from the vessel’s GPS system while the navigational data such as heading, and course are received from the vessel’s compass. Identification data, such as the vessel’s call sign, IMO number, size, type and name, is preset and is less frequently transmitted.

AIS Transceivers Classes

AIS transceivers are classified into 2 types - Class-A and Class-B.

Class A Transceivers

Class A AIS transceivers are mandated on commercial vessels >= 300 gross tons and operating internationally. The transponder, which operates on 12 watts, transmits information every 2 to 12 seconds within a range of 20 miles. Class A transponders transmit more vessel data in comparison to Class B transponders.

Class B Transceivers

Class B AIS transceivers are generally used by smaller vessels such as yachts and speed boats. These transponders, broadcast AIS data less frequently (30 second intervals) and have a transmit range of 4-6 miles. Class B transceivers only transmit the vessel's MMSI number, current position, course, and size. The primary function of Class B transceivers is to provide the safety and navigation benefits of AIS to smaller vessels at lower cost.

AIS Data Transmitted

Static data.

• Vessel name
• International Maritime Organization Number (IMO)
• Maritime Mobile Service Identity Number (MMSI)
• International Call Sign
• Type of vessel (e.g., tanker, tug)

Dynamic Data

• Vessel Position
• Speed Over Ground (SOG)
• Rate of Turn (ROT)
• AIS Navigation status
• Course Over Ground (COG)
• Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Voyage Data

• Planned arrival time (ETA)
• Maximum Draught
• Destination Port
• Cargo Category

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What was the problem?

Way, way back, many centuries ago – well, okay, before 2011 – there wasn’t a VesselFinder. Imagine that! People who needed to find ships anywhere in the world didn’t have an obvious place to turn or were required to pay high charges for inflexible services. They could either try their best with the resources that were available, or they could give up. Neither of those were great choices. So, a bunch of determined people decided to do something about it.

The birth of VesselFinder

These were people who had a vision for doing something incredible. Something that would solve the problem. And they did do something great: they got together and set up VesselFinder. From the very start, these people knew several things. They knew the service had to be of outstanding quality. They knew it had to offer something no existing service could. They knew it had to be simple and intuitive to use. Oh, and it had to be reliable and dependable. No pressure, then.

Who’s behind the service?

Right from the start, the people at VesselFinder realised that trying to do everything themselves was a recipe for total burnout. So, they did the sensible thing. They told people who shared their passion for excellence and service about what they were doing. Before long, they had a large team of people specialising in everything from software engineering to maritime design. Experts have worked on every aspect of VesselFinder.

How does VesselFinder work?

You’ve probably looked at VesselFinder and thought… well, perhaps your first thought was, “Wow!” We get it, there’s a lot to take in. But after you’ve got over the amazingness of seeing all those little coloured circles and arrows dotted around the world map, you may have started wondering about another question. That question is, “How do they do that?”

So, how do you do that?

Surprisingly perhaps, the answer to this question doesn’t involve having millions of people swimming around after the ships and scribbling down locations on a waterproof iPad. That would be great, but it would need a whole lot of people. It’s actually all down to some really cool technology. For its friends, Vesselfinder.com is built on the Automatic Identification System, or AIS . Yes, you count as friends! A massive network of receivers all over the globe transmits signals constantly, which the VesselFinder service decodes and turns into the stuff you can see on the site.

What do people use VesselFinder for?

Now, there’s a question that’s as long as a piece of string. A really, really long piece of string, too. But the short answer is “pretty much anything”. As time has passed, the VessselFinder team have added more and more services and options, so that now it’s the go-to place for anyone needing fast, reliable information. Whether they’re using the website, social media or an app, the drive to provide the best is the same.

What services are provided?

Vesselfinder.com keeps track of more than 100,000 vessels . They can be anywhere in the world, from the Indian Ocean to Canada’s Great Lakes. These positions are updated regularly , each and every day. You can check out which ports a ship has called it and the details of its voyage. You can see where a ship’s been and where it’s heading with precise and accurate heading and speed information.

Can VesselFinder really offer so much?

Yes – but that isn’t the half of it! The My Fleet facility on VesselFinder Premium allows users to access customised data from selected vessels in a flash . There are clear, colour photos of tens of thousands of ships , as well as handy images showing port infrastructure . Time is money in the maritime business, so the ability to analyse traffic density is crucial – VesselFinder offers that, too. Not to mention a comprehensive maritime news service.

How do people use VesselFinder?

However they like! The VesselFinder philosophy is not to tell users what to do with the data but to give them all the tools they need to choose how to use it. Some people may need to keep a close eye on a small number of vessels, while others might require a broader perspective. In many cases, users will want to access the service on the move, which is why VesselFinder offers clear, fast apps for both iOS and Android.

Flexible search options

Similarly, finding a ship is sometimes more straightforward if you search by its name – but sometimes it’s not. Maybe you only have its Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) or ISO number . Guess what? You can do that with VesselFinder. You can also check a vessel’s details to ensure you have the right one. Flag, tonnage, year of construction, draught, where it’s going, how fast it’s going, number of crew named Bob… okay, maybe not that last one. But hey, if there’s enough demand, perhaps they will work on it

Real-Time Tracking and Alerts

Stay up-to-date and secure with VesselFinder’s real-time tracking feature. Whether it’s for personal interest, maritime business, or security reasons, users can track vessels in real-time, seeing their exact location on the map. This feature is handy for logistics companies monitoring cargo, families keeping track of a sailor’s journey, or enthusiasts following iconic ships. Plus, up alerts to get notified about specific vessel movements , ensuring you never miss an important update.

Historical Data and Voyage Analysis

Dive into the past with VesselFinder’s comprehensive historical data. This feature is a goldmine for researchers, maritime historians, or anyone curious about a vessel’s past voyages. Analyse routes, speeds, port calls, and various time frames . Businesses can use this data for market analysis or to improve operational efficiency.

Information about Ports

Gain insights into global port activity with VesselFinder’s detailed port information. This invaluable tool is essential for logistics managers, shipping companies, and maritime enthusiasts. Users can access up-to-date information on port arrivals and departures, estimated times of arrival, and current port status . This feature also provides historical data, offering insights into port traffic trends and seasonal variations. Whether planning a shipment, analysing market trends, or simply curious about port operations, VesselFinder’s port information section is a comprehensive resource for understanding the dynamics of maritime trade and logistics.

Who would find VesselFinder interesting?

The short answer to that is: everyone ! Many users often ask, ‘Is VesselFinder free of charge?’ and the answer is yes, as the site offers numerous essential features at no cost, ensuring free access to its valuable maritime tracking services. There’s so much on VesselFinder that you’re almost certain to find whatever you need from your ship tracking and information service. For example:

Ship spotters

Vesselfinderm is a tremendous resource for people who love ships and the sea . Whether you’re into following giant container ships around the globe, tracking the path of supertankers as their oil deliveries keep the world’s industries running, or simply discovering vessels you never knew existed, you can do it with VesselFinder – and all in the blink of an eye.

If you love to travel the world, VesselFinder is for you, too. Are you thinking of heading off on a sun-soaked cruise? See where your voyage will take you and thrill to the names of the exotic ports you’ll be calling at. Wondering what you’ll see if you sail down the English Channel or St Lawrence Seaway? Checking with Vessel Finder will tell you.

Ship owners

VesselFinder is the easiest way to keep track of your ships – and not just yours. Find out straight away if your competitors have been using more efficient routes or calling at new ports to streamline their itineraries. Compare your ships in size, tonnage and age to those of others in your market sector. Use the photo library to see how your fleet resembles or differs from the companies you’re up against.

Company managers

You don’t have to work in the maritime industry for VesselFinder to work for you. So many goods travel by sea that anyone trading internationally will benefit from keeping track. You’ll be able to judge how long deliveries will take, whether your rivals are getting them sooner and whether you should think about changing shipping and destination ports.

Where else is comparable technology used?

Vesselfinder.com is a pretty impressive service. It’s also something that’s being noticed by more and more people in other sectors all around the world. It’s, therefore, not surprising that there’s a lot of interest in using similar tech in other areas. For example:

Flightradar24

This excellent flight tracker site is pretty much the aviation equivalent of VesselFinder. It’s been running since 2006, and since that time, it’s developed from a fun hobby to one of the world’s most-used tracking sites. The ADS-B (Automatic Detection Surveillance – Broadcast) tech the site uses does a very similar job to the one AIS does for VesselFinder, which means it can also offer tremendous accuracy and reliability. Flightradar24 is so good that major players in the aviation industry use it.

Tracking technology can help on land, too, and Rail radar applies it to Britain’s rail network. The service offers an excellent overview of trains all over the country. There’s a clear map that lets you see at a glance not only where trains are but who operates them. A simple click-through interface gives you immediate access to running information, including to-the-second timings for station stops, as well as any delays.

Solo Challenge

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Achieving the dream.

Around the world Single-handed Non-stop By the three great capes With a unique format Budget friendly Environmentally conscious Starts in A Coruña from August 2023

Around the world Single-handed Non-stop By the three great capes With a unique format Budget friendly Environmentally conscious In A Coruña from August 2023

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Andrea Mura and Cole Brauer had never met. Andrea had arrived in A Coruna after Cole had already left on her earlier start. Yet, watching them talk for the first time today they looked like old friends overdo for a good chat and catch up, such is the bond you form when you share such an adventure and challenge, you know every other participant will know exactly what you mean each time you speak and the camaraderie that develops is incredible. It was so nice to see Andrea and Cole chatting away talking about their adventures.

Andrea Mura arrived in A Coruna in gentle southwesterly winds crossing the finish line at 2:44 pm local time (13:44 UTC) after 120 days and 44 minutes since his departure on November 18th. He achieved his held dream and, as he put it, this circumnavigation gave him back as much as he had to give to achieve it and feels he is totally at peace with himself now, happy to be back and happy to see family and friends. It was another long day and we’ll follow this up with a longer article as usual, for the time being we just wish to congratulate Andrea on his enormous achievement. Cole Brauer handed him the trophy and it was another emotional day for the skippers of the Global Solo Challenge.

LIVE FEED STARTS 1:30 pm Local time (Italy/Spain/France), 7:30 am EST US time (Approx) INSTAGRAM LIVE: https://www.instagram.com/globalsolochallenge/ FACEBOOK LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/globalsolochallenge/

Andrea will dock on the long 30m central pontoon just by the iconic Tower of A Coruna. The best place to watch him arrive (1) is the end of the breakwater until he crosses the finish line, after that you can make your way to the pontoons (2) and once celebrations on the dock have finished we will move to the Global Solo Challenge white tent in the space ashore (3) where beers will be offered to those attending.

Andrea Mura has sailed very fast all night and the wind is holding up, he is currently 25 miles from the finish sailing at over 10 knots. We expect to go out when he is about 10 miles to the finish at around 12:30 local time. The live stream will start soon after probably around 1pm local time or soon after. LIVE FEED STARTS 1pm Local time (Italy/Spain/France), 7am EST US time INSTAGRAM LIVE: https://www.instagram.com/globalsolochallenge/ FACEBOOK LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/globalsolochallenge/

Andrea Mura is less than 200 miles from achieving his lifelong dream after crossing the finish line in A Coruna. He has managed to keep a good pace and he is currently expected after midday local time tomorrow Sunday 17th, the exact timing will very much depend on the final approach and the possibility that the wind will decrease substantially for the last 20-30 miles. All in all an early afternoon arrival seems plausible. ETA SPAIN/ITALY : 13:00 – 17:00 ETA USA EST : 07:00 – 11:00 am

The Azores high has spread far and wide in the north Atlantic and is posing more than a headache to Italian skipper Riccardo Tosetto who has little option other than to keep sailing north and reach the latitude where he can find the favourable winds of a depression moving eastward. For the time being Francois Gouin should be able to gain back some of the miles lost in the Doldrums and we have to see how the situation evolves and whether any of the two skippers will be able to make relative gains. Francois is still limited to sailing with three reefs in the mainsail.

Many of you asked in messages if everything was ok with Louis Robein. Louis is absolutely fine but he was dealing with issues with his autopilot that forced him to work in the back of the boat in a difficult to access area which required taking apart some of the surrounding interior fittings. He worked on the autopilot for a total of two days with a sails configuration that kept the boat drifting approximately on course. The repair was completed successfully and now Louis is back on course towards Cape Horn, just over 1300 miles southeast of his position. We look forward to seeing Louis round the Cape and sail in less isolated waters.

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5 November Race Start Leg 2, Cape Town to Auckland, Table Bay Harbour (Live streamed on Facebook and YouTube ).

Entrants depart the V&A marina from 10:30hrs local time. Official start 14:00hrs local time. The race start can be viewed from East Pier, Cape Town Harbour.

Follow the fleet on our live tracker as the boats make their way from Punta del Este , Uruguay, to Cowes , UK, on leg 4 of the Ocean Globe Race. The fleet left Uruguay on March 5th and ETA in Cowes is between April 11th-26th.

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Turning the tide for ordinary sailors with a dream

The golden age of fully crewed ocean racing around the world seems a distant memory..

Huge budgets and elite professionals racing custom carbon yachts costing upwards of €1m, that 'fly' on foils steered by sophisticated autopilots, not sailors, where shore teams via satellite are making tactical decisions are the new norm. Technology moves so fast that sailors the world over, while marvelling at these advances, have been left behind and look back fondly at the Corinthian days of the 1973 Whitbread Race and dream.

A time when adventurous sailors put together their own campaigns, skippers and crew made all decisions and the fleet was evenly matched. A time when budgets played a small part, technology was minimal and humans dared to achieve.

Well it’s time for a reality check. Time to step back, slow down, take a deep breath and experience life defining moments!

Following the hugely successful 50th anniversary Golden Globe Race in 2018, and again in 2022, McIntyre Adventure is proud to launch the 50th anniversary celebration of that first fully crewed round the world race. This retro Ocean Globe Race (OGR) takes to the high seas with 14 teams on September 10th from Ocean Village, following the same route as the clipper ships and the inaugural 1973 Whitbread Race in similar, affordable yachts.

The Ocean Globe Race is the future of accessible around the world ocean yacht racing for any sailor and has a huge future. This opportunity returns after nearly 30 years and is set to inspire and capture the imagination of sailors and passionate followers the world over. Already nine teams are preparing for the 2027 OGR as sailors grasp what this opportunity truly means. 

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• Boat Type: Swan 65
• Skipper: Marco Trombetti / Vittorio Malingri
• Country: ITALY

• Boat Type: Swan 53
• Skipper: Jean d'Arthuys
• Country: FRANCE

• Boat Type: Baltic 55
• Skipper: Campbell Mackie
• Country: AUSTRALIA

• Boat Type: Swan 53 (Hull No. 17)
• Skipper: Rufus Brand
• Country: SOUTH AFRICA

• Boat Type: 58ft Bruce Farr Design
• Skipper: Heather Thomas
• Country: UNITED KINGDOM

Pen Duick VI

• Boat Type: 73ft Bermudan Ketch
• Skipper: Marie Tabarly

• Boat Type: Swan 65 Ketch
• Skipper: Dominique Dubois

• Boat Type: Swan 51
• Skipper: Taylor Grieger
• Country: USA

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• Boat Type: Swan 55 (Hull No. 2)
• Skipper: Tapio Lehtinen
• Country: FINLAND

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• Boat Type: 33 Export
• Skipper: Lionel Regnier

Spirit of Helsinki

• Boat Type: Swan 651
• Skipper: Jussi Paavoseppä

• Boat Type: 60ft Aluminium Sloop
• Skipper: Tanneguy Raffray

White Shadow

• Boat Type: Swan 57
• Skipper: Jean-Christophe Petit
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• Boat Type: Nautor Swan 57
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The Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic Whitbread Race the best way possible, by sailing around the world like it’s 1973.

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Time to step back, slow down, take a deep breath and go..

With so many of the beautiful yachts from previous Whitbreads being rescued and restored, as has Maiden of course, it seems only fitting that they should be raced around the world again! Tracy Edwards MBE, Maiden

I'm delighted to hear that a 50th anniversary edition of the Whitbread is being launched. The Ocean Globe will be a great adventure as well as a great race for the participants. What a challenge one can set themselves? My congratulations to the organisers - it's such a bold and exciting move. Sir Chay Blyth

Of all the challenges, this Ocean Globe Race beats all its predecessors, the Whitbread and those that followed in its wake. The late Bob Fisher, veteran yachting journalist and author

This supreme challenge is an opportunity for those who could usually only dream of participating in such an event. Take it from me, this will offer an experience of a lifetime with lasting memories that will forever remind you of a unique and outstanding achievement. Ashley Manton, Chairman International Association of Cape Horners

What a brilliant idea to give people another chance to have the fun, to make the friends and to share the experiences we had fifty years ago. There will be days and weeks of being terrified, exhausted, cold, wet and miserable; other times you will be excruciatingly bored, but you will make friends for life, with a deep friendship born of the shared experience of danger, exhaustion and discomfort, and at the end you will realise it was the best thing you have done in your entire life. Butch Dalrymple Smith, Crew Sayula Winner 1973

The first Whitbread Race in '73 was a huge adventure and became a major milestone in the history of ocean racing. This retro Ocean Globe Race marking the 50th anniversary of that first race will be just as exciting and provides a unique opportunity for ordinary sailors to test themselves in the rolling surf of southern oceans once more. Barry Pickthall, Author of five Whitbread Race books

Those early Whitbread days really were full of passion. Every edition put up new challenges with the human element so important. The stories and characters became legend and we had a lot of fun. I have lots of memories of 'Fisher & Paykel', many of which are about coming only second! This new Classic Challenge in the Ocean Globe is going to excite a lot of people on and off the water. Imagine if Steinlager and F&P return! Grant Dalton, Whitbread and Volvo Ocean Race legend

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Director Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction sequel has grossed $494.7 million globally, including $208 million in North America and $289.4 million internationally. It should surpass the $500 million mark by Monday, a figure that few films have reached in post-pandemic times. Although it’s early in the year, “Dune 2” is currently the highest-grossing film of 2024 at the domestic and worldwide box office.

Outside of the U.S. and Canada, “Dune: Part Two” has enjoyed the strongest turnout in China ($36 million), the U.K. ($32.8 million), Germany ($25 million), France ($24.9 million) and Australia ($15.6 million).

Glowing word-of-mouth and interest in premium formats have kept the ticket sales flowing for “Dune 2.” Over the weekend, the film surpassed $100 million from Imax screens alone, the seventh-fastest film to reach the milestone.

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If Nvidia Keeps Rising Like This, It Will Be Bigger Than the Global Economy

A.I. fervor has rocketed the chip company’s share price upward. Our columnist asked A.I. chatbots how big Nvidia would become if it kept growing as fast as it had over the past year.

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It’s not a household name quite yet, but anyone who follows the stock market knows at least a little about Nvidia.

The company is the wonder of the year, a stock by which all others are measured. Nvidia designs the chips that make artificial intelligence work, and because A.I. is being hailed as the most important technological development since the internet, Nvidia shares have been rocketing since last year.

I’m not qualified to assess how important — or how dangerous — A.I. will one day become, but I do pay close attention to the stock market, which values Nvidia at more than $2.2 trillion, making it the third-largest public company in the world behind Microsoft and Apple.

Enthusiasm for A.I. is raising the share prices not only of Nvidia, but also of many other tech companies that are believed to be imbued with the technology’s potential, including Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet as well as other chipmakers like AMD, Taiwan Semiconductor and Intel.

But the blistering rate of Nvidia’s gains — an increase of about 290 percent over the past 12 months — has me and many Wall Street analysts wondering how sustainable this run is. The answer has implications for the entire market.

There are many ways to examine this, including traditional stock analysis, which considers sales, earnings, cash flow, business growth and momentum. I took an offbeat approach: asking several A.I. chatbots about Nvidia’s prospects as a stock. Specifically, I asked how big Nvidia’s market value would be in a decade if the company’s share price kept its current pace.

What they told me amounted to this: Nvidia stock’s sharp rise can’t continue like this for very long. And because much of the stock market is bound up in the same feverish A.I.-driven stock frenzy, the message is broadly true. If the market doesn’t slow down soon, it may inflate itself into a bubble — and all bubbles eventually burst.

On a personal level, I love new tech but I try not to become too excited about it until I’m confident it works safely and reliably. From what I can tell, A.I. produces spectacular images and is fun to play with, but it’s neither reliable nor safe (yet).

(The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December for copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems.)

What’s in a quadrillion?

To their credit, all three of the A.I. chatbots I asked — Microsoft Copilot , powered by OpenAI’s Chat GPT-4 ; Google Gemini ; and Anthropic’s Claude 3 — were reluctant to answer my questions directly.

Each one said it couldn’t assess stock valuations reliably or predict with the slightest degree of accuracy how a stock or the overall market would perform in the future. I wish human stock analysts said as much.

Just because Nvidia’s stock price is growing fast now doesn’t mean it will keep growing fast, and certainly not over periods as long as a decade, they all warned me.

But I pressed them to perform some basic calculations anyway, which I backstopped with 20th-century technology — a spreadsheet and a calculator.

The chatbots didn’t arrive at the same numbers every time and never agreed on the details. That’s another sign, in my humble estimation, that they’re not ready for prime time. I wouldn’t use them for math homework.

But in this case, the details didn’t really matter. Ultimately, and with considerable prompting, they all came up with the same basic conclusion: The simple laws of compound arithmetic tell us that if the company’s share price keeps rising at its current rate, Nvidia will end up with a market cap in the quadrillions of dollars.

Quadrillions are an order of magnitude I’m not comfortable with, so I resorted to a dictionary : One quadrillion dollars is 1 with 15 zeros after it, or a thousand trillion dollars in American parlance. (In British English, a quadrillion is even bigger: 1 with 24 zeros. I’m using the American definition.)

How big is that? The world economy — the combined size of all of the annual gross domestic products of every country on the planet — amounted to $100.88 trillion in 2022, according to the World Bank . So if Nvidia kept growing at its current annual rate, it would dwarf the output of the entire known economic universe within 10 years.

Claude 3, the Anthropic A.I. chatbot, calculated that Nvidia, at its current growth rate, would become a $2.76962 quadrillion company in 10 years, and then warned me: “This is an extraordinarily large number that seems implausible in reality, as it would make Nvidia larger than the entire global economy many times over.”

In plain English, Nvidia’s astonishing growth rate over the past year is far too high to continue for long. I’d be wary about buying shares of Nvidia, or any other stock, in the belief that its momentum is perpetual. What goes up can come down, and, somewhere down the line, it certainly will.

This warning reinforces what traditional valuation measures show. Nvidia’s share price, and the prices of many stocks, are high. They can be justified on the assumption that their sales and earnings will grow at a rip-roaring pace. But if share prices rise faster than earnings, the market party will eventually crash.

Remember Apple?

Nvidia is an impressive company. Its products have a great reputation and are in high demand, and it generates enormous, rapidly growing profits.

Its latest earnings report in February, which unleashed tremendous stock market optimism, contained eye-popping numbers. And in a conversation with Wall Street analysts then, Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, gave Wall Street something exciting to mull over. The company’s technology is providing the foundations for a new industrial revolution, he said.

“We are now at the beginning of a new industry where A.I.-dedicated data centers process massive raw data to refine it into digital intelligence,” he said. “Like A.C. power generation plants of the last industrial revolution, Nvidia A.I. supercomputers are essentially A.I. generation factories of this industrial revolution.”

The sky is the limit for the next couple of years, he suggested.

But Nvidia will inevitably begin to grow more slowly. It’s absurd to think it can become bigger than everything else in the universe.

But it could still grow swiftly. Some companies have managed to sustain long-term rapid growth before.

Apple, at various stages since its founding in 1976, has perplexed skeptics who have periodically said it had become too large to keep expanding quickly. In 2012, for example, Apple’s market capitalization was $500 billion and its stock price had risen 68 percent in just eight months.

Back then, The New York Times cited an analyst who used a spreadsheet, not a chatbot, to assess Apple’s prospects. The analyst concluded that if the company grew at just 20 percent a year over the following decade — much slower than its growth rate had been in 2012 — Apple would be worth an impossible number by 2022: more than $3 trillion. That number doesn’t look outlandish now.

Apple’s market cap isn’t quite there yet, but it’s close, at about $2.7 trillion. Its old rival, Microsoft, which was much smaller than Apple in 2012, now has a market cap that surpasses $3 trillion. These two giants have risen and fallen many times and show every prospect of being able to do so again.

I don’t know whether Nvidia belongs in that exalted category, but it’s clear that even though Nvidia won’t be bigger than the entire universe, it could end up being substantially more valuable in the next 10 or 20 years. Then again, it might not.

It could be more like Cisco Systems, the most valuable company in the stock market in March 2000. That was the peak of another technology boom — the dot-com bubble. Cisco is still a solid company. Its products make up the backbone of the internet. But its market capitalization in 2000 was $567 billion. Now, it’s around $200 billion.

It will be fascinating to watch Nvidia’s destiny unfurl. But because I can’t predict how it or any company will fare in the long run, I don’t buy individual stocks — not Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco or anything else.

Instead, I settle for broad low-cost index funds that track the entire market. They are a passive and less risky bet on the future that requires no stock picking.

If Nvidia grows rapidly for years to come, I won’t miss out entirely because the overall stock market will probably grow, too. If Nvidia falters, other stocks are likely, at some point, to pick up the slack. That’s what has happened over the past 100 years, anyway. The A.I. boom is a thrilling ride. If it starts to slow, those who have hedged their bets will be pleased that they did.

An earlier version of this article misstated the scale of Microsoft’s market capitalization. It surpasses $3 trillion not just $3 billion.

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