The Global Solo Challenge has been launched, an incredible personal navigation challenge: a single, no-stop circumnavigation on standard production ships with output and arrival in A Coruña in 2023.

Many are those passionate about ocean navigation, professionals with thousands of miles under their keel that often cannot register and compete in major ocean navigation events due to the enormous costs they entail. The Global Solo Challenge seeks to close that gap. The ships admitted to the event are widely available production ships from 35 to 45 feet built in a minimum series of 20 units and launched before 2005.

There are other limitations with regard to the travel / length relationship that effectively eliminate ships that are too expensive, open designs, custom constructions, all in order to contain the budget and create an event that is truly unique in its format.

The choice of widely available standard vessels has also been taken into account the environment, as it follows the guiding principles of a "circular economy," where available resources are reused in respect of the sea and the planet.

The Global Solo Challenge is an event created by navigators for sailors. The Director of the Event, Marco Nannini, has a palmaris that includes participation in the OSTAR, the Rute du Rhum and the Global Ocean Race. The latter is a race to two around the world in stages in Class40s, where it held second place in the general, which was worth the title of Italian navigator of the year 2012 and a medal for its merits granted by the Senate Presidency of the Republic of Italy.

For five years, Nannini managed a high seas training and navigation centre in Italy, which gathered the largest fleet of Mini 650 in one place in the Mediterranean. There he organized frequent training races. His degree in economics and finance at the University of York and his previous career in finance add value to the management part of the event.

The different beginnings of the Global Solo Challenge will take place in September 2023 from A Coruña. The tour is the traditional east on the circumnavigation around the world passing the three great ends: Cape Buena Esperanza, Cape Leeuwinn and Cape Horn, leaving the Antarctic region and all the ice known to starboard with an exclusion zone mark... the event has already attracted the interest of more than 40 patterns from all over the world only in its first week... the pattern Ivan Dimov, from Bulgaria but long-term resident of Italy, has been the first to target the challenge.