From Miranda Merron’s Campagne de France project to that of Jérémie Beyou’s Charal or Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss, there is a world of difference. One’s budget is but a small fraction of the others. Some big teams might spend more on their communication at sea than would run a very small low budget programme. The ambitions are usually directly correlated to financial means, but the one thing that is common to all of the 33 registered skippers is the desire to complete the solo round-the-world, non-stop and without assistance race.
