Racing round Denmark

Eight-time Volvo Ocean Race skipper Bouwe Bekking and the Volvo 65 Childhood 1 were on standby in late June to set a benchmark time for a new 775-mile offshore Round Denmark Race to be held in 2021.

The mainland of Denmark is not, of course, an island, so this is more a race around its coastline and easternmost islands. It can be sailed either clockwise or counter-clockwise, but typical low pressure passages will likely favour the clockwise route. “Records have always been surrounded by a certain mystique and the Round Denmark Race course has the potential to become one of the mythical distances,” says Bekking. Top Danish sailors Jens Dolmer and Olympic Bronze medallist Katja Salskov-Iversen will form part