40 Days to Departure
| Les Sables d’Olonne, 6th July 2022 For the 4th time, Skipper, Founder, and Managing Director of Innovation Yachts, Norbert Sedlacek Koch is attempting to become the first sailor ever to sail around the world single handed, non-stop, and without assistant through all five oceans; among those are the Arctic and Antarctic Ocean. |
| 40 days from now, Norbert Sedlacek Kochwill depart for his world extreme sailing as a part of the ANT ARCTIC LAB project. The departure of this world record attempt is set on 15th August 2022 from Les Sables d’Olonne, France and will cover a distance of at least 32.000 nautical miles. The challenge will take around 200 days at sea single handed, non-stop, and without assistant through all five oceans including the Arctic and Antarctic Ocean. IY Open60AAL sailing. |
| Norbert will embark on our IY Open60AAL which was built using fully recyclable and environment friendly materials such as volcanic fiber, balsa wood, and harmless epoxy. Therefore the purpose of this project is also to promote an environmentally safe sailing and clean yacht construction. Lamination of the deck of IY Open60AAL in Innovation Yachts’ Shipyard. |
| Nonetheless, sailing has become a part of this 60-year-old skipper. The former waiter and Vienna’s tram driver has been devoting himself in sailing world for more than 30 years. Between 1996 and 1998 Norbert became the first Austrian sailor to circumnavigate single-handed the world, in 2000-2001 he was the first Austrian sailor to circumnavigate Antarctica non-stop, and in 2009 Norbert became the first German speaking Skipper who finished the world’s most extreme sailing race, the Vendée Globe. |
About ANT ARCTIC LAB Project
ANT ARCTIC LAB is a world record attempt to sail nonstop, single-handed, and without assistance through all five oceans including Arctic and Southern Ocean.
More Details on Norbert’s Route
Norbert will sail from Les Sables d’Olonne course northwest until west of the British islands, then straight up north, arriving the archipelago of Svalbard. He will then go higher in the Arctic, rounding Svalbard from east to west on around 80°N, the course will lead south passing west of Iceland, Acores and Cap Verde Islands to get finally into the Southern Ocean. The challenge will continue straight east, passing the Longitude of Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin, Tasmania, Stewart Island, all the way round Antarctica, and finally passing Cape Horn then sailing course north back to Les Sables d’Olonne.