Offshore: Whisky Jack Completes Lorient to Cadiz Prologue, Canada Ocean Racing On Leg 5

September 11, 2025

Melodie Schaffer is at it again entering her second Globe 40, the 30,000-mile double-handed race around the world including Melodie and one crew member for each of the seven legs of the race.

The first leg of the Globe40 race is a sprint across the Atlantic, and the overall race spanning approximately 140 days at sea for the frontrunners. The race involves sailing around the globe, including navigating the three “Great Capes” (Good Hope, Leeuwin, and Horn) and starting from Cadiz, in Spain, and going through Cape Verde, Reunion Island, Sydney in Australia, Valparaiso in Chile, Recife in Brazil and to end in Lorient in France. The Globe40 race is planned to end in April 2026.

On Sunday 31 August Melodie start gathered at Lorient La Base, Brittany, then departed for the Prologue pre-Ocean40 race to Cadiz in Spain (880 nautical miles) arriving on Tuesday, Sept 9.

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On Sept 7, the boats left Genova, Italy and are expected to take eight days for Leg 5, arriving in Boka Bay, Montenegro on 15 – 16 September.

The seven international four-person, mixed-gender crews had been making slow progress in ultra-light winds since leaving Genova, Italy on Sunday afternoon on the 1,600-nautical mile passage to Boka Bay in Montenegro after hugging the coast to pass France’s Nice and St. Tropez overnight. On Canada Ocean Racing, Dews said the crew were upbeat and looking for opportunities to close down the leaders as quickly as possible. With more volatile weather expected nobody would bet against those opportunities presenting themselves.

The  Leg 5 Team – from left to right: Seb Marsset, Georgia Schofield (On-Board Reporter), Pip Hare, Lincoln Dews, Chris Pratt. Credit: Richard Marsden / Canada Ocean Racing LLC

Here’s how to follow the Ocean Race Europe: https://www.theoceanrace.com/en/how-to-follow

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