Boris Herrmann

Boris Herrmann (born 28 May 1981) is a German yachtsman.

Boris Herrmann
Born (1981-05-28) 28 May 1981
Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, West Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationYachtsman

Sailing career

In 2001 Boris Herrmann was the youngest (and only German) participant in the Mini Transat race, a single-handed yacht race across the Atlantic. He came to finish eleventh which earned him his first larger appearance in the yachting press. In 2006 Herrmann finished second in the European Championship as well as in the German Championship in the 505 class. He also competed in the 505 World Championships finishing 17th in 2005, 7th in 2006 and 9th in 2007 in highly competitive 100+ boat fleets. In spring 2008 Herrmann sailed his Class 40 yacht “Beluga Racer” to a second in the Artemis Transat, the oldest transatlantic regatta for single-handed yachts.

Boris Herrmann won the Portimão Global Ocean Race, a five leg regatta around the world for Class 40 boats. He and his co-skipper Felix Oehme (the Beluga Offshore Sailing Team) came to win three of the five legs of the race, and left behind the team Desafio Cabo de Hornos. This makes them the first German professional team on a German yacht to win a leg of an international trans-ocean race and the whole race itself.[1]

On 29 July 2019, it was announced that Boris Herrmann was to sail climate activist Greta Thunberg from Plymouth to New York City in mid-late August 2019 on his emission-free racing yacht Malizia II. [2] They departed on 14 August 2019 and arrived on 28 August the same year.[3]

In 2020/2021 Boris Herrmann was the first German (apart from the Franco-German Isabelle Joschke) to take part in the prestigious 2020 - Vendée Globe, which started on 8 November 2020 in front of Les Sables-d'Olonne in the Vendée department in France.[4] He crossed the finish line in 5th place with an elapsed time of 80d 20h 59m 45s. In total Boris Herrmann achieved 5th place between Jean Le Cam on 4th and Thomas Ruyant on 6th place.[5] Due to a granted time compensation of 6 hours as part of the rescue of Kevin Escoffier in late November 2020, Boris Herrmann came out with a total regatta time of 80d 14h 59m 45s.[6]

On the 19th June 2022 he launched his new boat Malizia-Seaexplorer, with which he participated in the 14th edition of The Ocean Race. The ship is constructed for his participation in the 2024/2025 Vendée Globe.[7]

In 2023 Boris Herrmann is competing in the 14th edition of The Ocean Race, sailing around the world in the toughest crewed race in the world over with co-skippers Will Harris, Rosalin Kuiper, Nicolas Lunven and Antoine Auriol. The crew passed Cape Horn in first place in leg 3 of the race [8]

References
  1. "Home". Portimão Global Ocean Race. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008.
  2. correspondent, Jon Henley Europe (29 July 2019). "Greta Thunberg to sail across Atlantic for UN climate summits". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. Justine Calma (28 August 2019). "Greta Thunberg wraps up 15-day carbon-free voyage to New York City". The Verge.
  4. "Hundertprozentige Sicherheit gibt es nicht". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 7 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  5. "Tracking map - Vendée Globe - En". www.vendeeglobe.org. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  6. "News - Time Compensations To Skippers Involved In the Rescue of Kevin Escoffier - Vendée Globe - En". www.vendeeglobe.org. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  7. NDR. "Boris Herrmanns neue Yacht ist im Wasser". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  8. https://www.eurosport.co.uk/sailing/the-ocean-race/2022-2023/ocean-race-2023-team-malizia-become-first-team-to-pass-cape-horn-ahead-of-holcim-prb-on-leg-3-to-ita_sto9533086/story.shtml

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