He will be on the start line in Les Sables d’Olonne because, he jokes ‘I read all the books, Pete Goss, Ellen MacArthur’, but suffice to say when he does answer the gun on Sunday 8th November it will be the realisation of a dream he has had since his teenage years. He did his first Mini Transat race in 2001 as an 18 year old and eight years later won the Class40 Global Ocean Race round the world. Now, armed with the highly optimised Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco, he is ready to take on the world. He is German, speaks fluent English, French and Spanish and represents the Yacht Club of Monaco. Meet Boris Herrmann.
