The first edition of the Globe 40 saw 7 Class40 boats on the starting line for the Prologue in Lorient, France in June 2022.  Following in the tradition of the Global Ocean Races, the Globe 40 circled the planet in 8 legs, with 9 stop overs, from Tangier, Morocco to Lorient, France.  Each leg was sailed double-handed with Craig sailing the even-numbered legs on Micah Davis and Brian Harris’s Owen Clark-designed Akilaria RC3 “Amhas”.   

Sailing with Ollie Bond, Craig finished:

  •   1st in Leg 2 (Sao Vincente, Cape Verde – Port Louis, Mauritius)

  • 2nd in Leg 4 (Auckland, New Zealand – Papeete, Tahiti)

  •   1st in Leg 6 (Ushuaia, Argentina – Recife, Brazil;  with James Oxenham)

  • 1st in Leg 8 (St. George, Grenada – Lorient, France).

While Amhas finished 2nd in the overall rankings.