The Asturian regatist, with a sports project one hundred percent Valencian, has sailed today from Valencia, in its base port in Valencia Mar, to complete the miles that the organization of the regatta is set back to the world in solitaire and without scales... it is planned to complete the tour in 10-12 days... Pogo 40S is set to Ibiza, from there to Sardinia and Corsica, then to the Sea of Alboran (possibly Gibraltar) and return to Valencia

Juan Merediz faces his first major challenge in the Goblal Solo Challenge... he does so in compliance with the 2,000 miles of qualification established by the organization, already in October, in the end, he will face the great challenge of turning the world alone and without scales... is the only Spanish skipper in the race.

The Gijonese regatist, based in Valencia and with experience in ocean races such as the Transat 6.50, in which he participated in 1995, La Solitaire du Figaro in 1997 or the Barcelona Wolf Race in 2010, has sailed today after 1.30 hours from Valencia Mar with the aim of meeting this procedure, which is not going to be easy.

Merediz has set out to the island of Ibiza, from there he will set his bow to the Italian coast with the aim of reaching Sardinia to go up to Corsica and from there, taking advantage of the Mistral, to the Sea of Alboran, possibly the point is in the Strait of Gibraltar. Once that step has been reached, the Pogo40S will return to Valencia. In the event that it has not covered the 2,000 established miles the option in which the Spanish regatist works is to go to Ibiza.

Juan Merediz's sports project, in its entirety Valencian, is quite advanced, although it is necessary to be able to close some sponsors, and also to arrive some new ones, to face with guarantees this attractive, hard and difficult regatta back to the world alone and without scales such as the Global Solo Changet, which will start in October from the Marina Coruña, in A Coruña, being the same point of arrival for all.

In total it will be 26,000 nautical miles of route approximately. After the exit in A Coruña, the regatists must leave the Antarctic Exclusion Zone (slope of the IR), which takes into account the presence of all known ice, starboard and the three Great Cabos to port. It is expected that the fastest ships will be able to complete the tour in about 100 days and the small ones just over 200 days.

One of the attractions of the GSC is the reverse and step output from August 26 to December 9, with the small ones taking the first and the fastest ones. The Pogo40S of Merediz will take the exit on October 21 or 28 of the same month.

The rules of the race state that all ships are part of the event. There are no ratings or classes in race, these certificate numbers are taken into account to establish the output, their date to face the world return, thus eliminating the need to calculate the times compensated at the end of the event. After the exit will be the battle and the persecution of the fastest to reach the smallest.