Mike Golding Yacht Racing

29/01/2026

Wonderful to meet so many Little Ship Club HPO’s - port officers of the club who offer assistance and support to visiting club members and sailors in ports all around the globe.

25/01/2026

Staggering achievement, congratulations to Thomas and the Sodebo team! Proof positive that persistence is king - 40 days to circle the globe in a sailboat!

01/11/2025

Thank you to for making our visit to Fort Lauderdale Boat Show and the Seakeeper Founders Dinner so memorable. It was brilliant to be together with Tia Lotter Sorensen and family, plus all our SK friends (our sailing family) from our 18 months travels on Traverse. It was an honour to be recognised alongside so many others. It was a special bonus for me to meet and spend a little time with a true British legend and gent - Nigel Mansell. Mike and Andrea thank you all.

30/10/2025

Stoking the fires with a USA scale flat white coffee and mega doughnut breakfast ahead of visiting the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show and the Seakeepers founders dinner this evening.

24/09/2025

Great day to celebrate 20 years of the RYA’s Green Blue initiative, congratulations to all of its inspiring leaders.

17/09/2025

What a surprise! Andrea, the Traverse crew and The International SeaKeepers Society have won three awards at the corporate engagement awards at The Globe Theatre, London😁

08/09/2025

Thankyou to the Royal Yachting Association for this well assembled interview covering some fantastic memories from a career in sailing sport.

Hear some of Mike's incredible stories from his time as one of the top ocean racers competeing in 9 round the world races inluding the British Steel Challeng...

17/08/2025

NZ/Aus brokerage Multihull Central's (long form) interview about our experiences and feelings about sailing our Outremer 51 catamaran Traverse (and much more) from NZ to the S France where she is available for sale. 😉

15/08/2025

Interview about our Seabed 2030 https://seabed2030.org/ we undertook aboard Traverse between NZ and France - quite possibly the easiest citizen science initiative which registered SeaKeepers Discovery Yachts are able to contribute towards. If your heading off cruising (or racing!) - there's always time to sign up and make your contribution...

⛵ Sailing + Science = Mapping progress! Listen to the inspiring Mike Golding OBE - a world-class sailor with nine round-the-world races under his belt - on why he’s partnering with The International SeaKeepers Society to support Seabed 2030 in collecting vital ocean data. 💬 “It’s a great ...

25/06/2025

Arrived in Camargue after some light downwind sailing under spinnaker with Traverse - all feeling a little sad that it will likely be our last after our rollercoaster of a cruising passage from New Zealand to S France.

It’s been amazing to sail this last stage with Carl and Tim who have muscled through some tough rough days and boring calm ones. They have been total stars and together we have been learning and laughing in that way only family can.

We now have a week or two to enjoy being here in the South of France while also decamping ourselves from 18 months of living onboard our home afloat.

21/06/2025

The dolphins around us don’t mind the lack of wind as we head East into the Mediterranean bound for Camargue in the S of France.

18/06/2025

The last 48hrs has been an upwind slog through the Straits of Gibraltar and, after
a brief stop in Barbate, Spain to grab some sleep, we are back on passage.
There are now regular ORCA (aka Killer Whale) “attacks” - much better described as interactions - reported each day. These interactions can involve losing rudder blade(s) and so they are not to be ignored.
Looking at the accumulated data, we chose to sail in the deep water