Conrad Colman is a
yachtsman
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from
New Zealand
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with dual nationality of New Zealand and America and is now based in France. In 2016, he became the first New Zealander to compete in the famous solo around-the-world race, the
Vendée Globe.
On 10 February 2017 Colman was in 10th place, 740 miles from the finish line (having completed 97% of the race's 27,440 nautical mile
circumnavigation
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The first circumnaviga ...
) when his
IMOCA 60
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, the ''Foresight Natural Energy'', was dismasted.
Two weeks later he became the 3rd sailor in history to complete the Vendée Globe under
jury rig
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, taking 16th place in the race with a time of just under 110 days 2 hours.
Colman ran out of food after the dismasting, and completed the race on survival rations pillaged from his
life raft.
''Foresight Natural Energy'' is the same yacht that
Jean-Baptiste Dejeanty used in the 2008–09 Vendée Globe
and it is powered entirely by renewable energy.
When he crossed the finish line, Colman became the first skipper to complete the Vendée Globe using no fossil fuels.
References
External links
Conrad Colman at Vendée Globe*
1983 births
Living people
New Zealand male sailors (sport)
Single-handed circumnavigating sailors
2016 Vendee Globe sailors
2024 Vendee Globe sailors
American Vendee Globe sailors
Vendée Globe finishers
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