Voyage Planning In A Changing World

Jimmy Cornell

Accomplished Sailor and Best Selling Author

Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000 miles in all oceans of the world including three circumnavigations as well as voyages to Antarctica and the Northwest Passage. Thousands of sailors have fulfilled their dream of blue water sailing with the help of his books. As the founder of the ARC transatlantic rally, Jimmy Cornell is credited with having devised the offshore cruising rally concept. In the last 35 years, Jimmy Cornell has organised 36 transatlantic, two transpacific, five round the world rallies and one round the world race with over 4,000 boats and 18,000 sailors having participated in his sailing events.

Besides the ARC, which continues to be the largest transocean event in the world, equally successful were the America 500 Columbus anniversary rally in 1992, the Hong Kong Challenge round the world race in 1996, the Expo 98 event commemorating the historic voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498, the Millennium Odyssey in 1998-2000 and the Blue Planet Odyssey in 2014-2017. His latest project is the World Odyssey 500 round the world rally due to finish in June this year.

Jimmy Cornell is the author of 20 books, some of which have been translated into several languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese. Thousands of sailors have fulfilled their dream of blue water cruising with the help of Jimmy Cornell’s books, among them World Cruising Routes. Now in its 9th edition, it is described as the bible of long-distance voyagers. With over 250,000 copies sold to date, this is one of the best-selling nautical publications in the world.