Boris Herrmann
{{short description|German yachtsman}}
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| birth_place = Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, West Germany
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| spouse = Birte Lorenzen-Herrmann
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| website = [https://www.team-malizia.com/ team-malizia.com]
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Boris Herrmann (born 28 May 1981) is a German yachtsman and author competing mostly in offshore races in the IMOCA 60 class.
He placed fifth in the 2020/21 Vendée Globe and third in the 2023 The Ocean Race. With the experiences of these races he wrote two books. He is currently preparing his campaign for the 2024/25 Vendée Globe with the Malizia-Seaexplorer, the first boat developed under his own management.{{Cite news |last=Reuter |first=Sebastian |date=2023-12-19 |title=Boris Herrmann: Segel-Pläne für Vendée Globe 2024 und Ocean Race 2026 |language=de |work=FAZ.NET |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/mehr-sport/boris-herrmann-segel-plaene-fuer-vendee-globe-2024-und-ocean-race-2026-19392594.html |access-date=2023-12-28 |issn=0174-4909}}
Together with Pierre Casiraghi he founded the sailing team Team Malizia to support his IMOCA 60 campaign.{{Cite web |title=Handelsblatt |url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/mittelstand/familienunternehmer/boris-herrmann-weshalb-kuehne-nagel-einen-deutschen-einhand-weltumsegler-sponsert/26697214.html |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=www.handelsblatt.com}} The team belongs to the most professional and financially more competitive teams in the IMOCA 60 class.
Early life
Boris Herrmann was born on 28 May 1981 in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony where he grew up in a household enthusiastic towards sailing.{{Cite web |title=BORIS HERRMANN / TEAM MALIZIA |url=https://www.schuetz.net/de/climate-action/boris-herrmann-team-malizia/ |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=SCHÜTZ |language=de}}
He finished school at the Neues Gymnasium Oldenburg. Next to his activities in sport he studied economics in Bremen with a specialisation in sustainable management.
Sailing career
= Start in Mini and 505 dinghy classes (2001-2007) =
In 2001 Boris Herrmann was the youngest (and the only German) participant in the Mini Transat race, a single-handed yacht race across the Atlantic.{{Cite web |title=Classe Mini - Mini Transat 2001 |url=https://www.classemini.com/course-en-mini-transat-2001.html |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=www.classemini.com}} He came to finish eleventh which earned him his first larger appearance in the yachting press.
From 1999 onwards he competed in the 505 dinghy class.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=Boris Herrmann |url=https://5o5.iworks.pl/fleet-person/boris-herrmann/ |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=5o5 Results Archive |language=en-US}} In 2006 Herrmann finished second in the European Championship{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=2006 - Euro Cup – Finals |url=https://5o5.iworks.pl/result/2006-06-euro-cup-finals/ |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=5o5 Results Archive |language=en-US}} as well as in the German Championship in the 505 class. He also competed in the 505 World Championships finishing 17th in 2005,{{Cite web |title=2005 - World Championship |url=https://5o5.iworks.pl/result/2005-08-world-championship/ |access-date=23 December 2023}} 7th in 2006{{Cite web |title=2006 - World Championship |url=https://5o5.iworks.pl/result/2006-07-world-championship/ |access-date=23 December 2023}} and 9th in 2007{{Cite web |title=2007 - World Championship |url=https://5o5.iworks.pl/result/2007-02-world-championship/ |access-date=23 December 2023}} in highly competitive 100+ boat fleets.
= Class 40 and various offshore sailing projects (2008-2017) =
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 in 2008, 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.portimaoglobaloceanrace.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216002453/http://www.portimaoglobaloceanrace.com/ |archive-date=16 December 2008 |title=Home |website=Portimão Global Ocean Race}}
With the crew of the Italian skipper Giovanni Soldini he was part in setting a new record on the "Golden Route" from New York to San Francisco in 2014.{{Cite web |last=Race |first=The Ocean |title=Boris Herrmann |url=https://www.theoceanrace.com/en/crew/845_Boris-Herrmann |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=The Ocean Race 2022-23 |language=en}} With a modified Volvo Ocean 70 yacht "Maserati" they finished in 47 days and 42 minutes, about 10 days faster than the previous record.{{Cite news |last=Carter |first=Beth |title=Sailboat Crew Breaks Speed Record in NY-to-SF Voyage |url=https://www.wired.com/2013/02/soldini-golden-route-record/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |work=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}
In 2015 he was part of an international crew skippered by Francis Joyon for an attempt on the Jules Verne Trophy. Though completing the circumnavigation they failed to break the record of Loïck Peyron from 2012 by 2 days.{{Cite web |last=Duller-Mayrhofer |first=Judith |date=2016-11-11 |title=Boris Herrmann sticht wieder in See |url=https://www.yachtrevue.at/regatta/rekorde/boris-herrmann-jules-verne-trophy-7677553 |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=yachtrevue.at |language=de}} He made a second attempt for the Jules Verne Trophy in 2016 again with Francis Joyon as a skipper and on the trimaran IDEC Sport. They abandoned the race after 6 days due to bad weather making a record highly unlikely.{{Cite web |title=IDEC – Sailing Anarchy.de |url=http://www.sailinganarchy.de/tag/idec |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.sailinganarchy.de}}
2016 and 2017 he participated in the GC32 Racing Tour leading the Team Malizia alongside Pierre Casiraghi.{{Cite web |title=Boris Herrmann sticht wieder in See {{!}} Team Malizia & Boris Herrmann Racing - Professional sailing team racing around the world |url=https://malizia-website-mzgnvrkqg-team-malizia.vercel.app/ |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=Team Malizia & Boris Herrmann Racing}}
= IMOCA 60 circuit (since 2017) =
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/mehr-sport/boris-herrmann-startet-bei-segelregatta-vendee-globe-17039466.html|title=Hundertprozentige Sicherheit gibt es nicht|date=7 November 2019|work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|access-date=22 November 2019|language=de}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Tracking map - Vendée Globe - En|url=https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/tracking-map|access-date=29 January 2021|website=www.vendeeglobe.org|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|title=News - Time Compensations To Skippers Involved In the Rescue of Kevin Escoffier - Vendée Globe - En|url=https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/21075/time-compensations-to-skippers-involved-in-the-rescue-of-kevin-escoffier|access-date=28 January 2021|website=www.vendeeglobe.org|language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |last=NDR |title=Boris Herrmanns neue Yacht ist im Wasser |url=https://www.ndr.de/sport/mehr_sport/Boris-Herrmanns-neue-Yacht-ist-im-Wasser-,herrmann596.html |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=www.ndr.de |language=de}}
In 2023 Boris Herrmann competed 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.{{Cite web |title=Ocean Race 2023: Team Malizia become first team to pass Cape Horn ahead of Holcim-PRB on Leg 3 to Itajai |url=https://www.eurosport.com/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}} During the first leg he injured his foot which led to him skipping the second leg. Herrmann and his crew reached third place overall and second in the in-port-series.{{Cite web |title=Team Malizia third overall in The Ocean Race and second in the in-Port Series |url=https://www.sail-world.com/news/263779/Thats-a-wrap-Team-Malizia-third-overall |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=www.sail-world.com}}
Other activities
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.{{Cite news |last=correspondent |first=Jon Henley Europe |date=29 July 2019 |title=Greta Thunberg to sail across Atlantic for UN climate summits |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/29/greta-thunberg-to-sail-across-atlantic-for-un-climate-summits |access-date=29 July 2019 |issn=0261-3077}} They departed on 14 August 2019 and arrived on 28 August the same year.{{Cite web |author=Justine Calma |date=28 August 2019 |title=Greta Thunberg wraps up 15-day carbon-free voyage to New York City |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/28/20837520/greta-thunberg-boat-new-york-city-climate-change |publisher=The Verge}}
Sailing results
Bibliography
- Nonstop: Süchtig nach Segeln / Driven by the Sea, 2021,
- Allein zwischen Himmel und Meer, 2021 together with Andreas Wolfers
- Abenteuer Ocean Race, 2023, together with Andreas Wolfers
- My Ocean Challenge – Kurs auf Klimaschutz, 2023, children's book, together with Birte Lorenzen-Herrmann
References
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Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110107103134/http://www.seglermagazin.de/Artemis-Transat-2008-Boris-He.4798.0.html Article at Seglermagazin.de Artemis Transat 2008: Boris Herrmann sensationell Zweiter 30. Mai 2008]
- [http://www.manager-magazin.de/sport/sonst/0,2828,589961,00.html Article at Manager Magazin "Man liegt immer auf der Lauer" 15. November 2008]
- [http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/0,1518,590736,00.html Article at Spiegel Online Deutsche Segler mit historischem Erfolg 16. November 2008]
- [http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/0,1518,631639,00.html Article at Spiegel Online Herrmann und Oehme gewinnen Portimão Global Race 21. Juni 2009]
- [http://www.thetransat.com/ Official Website: The Transat - The North Atlantic Alone] (English/French)
External links
- {{World Sailing|boris-herrman|id=GERBH16}}
- [https://www.imoca.org/en/skippers-1/boris-herrmann Boris Herrmann] at IMOCA
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Category:German male sailors (sport)
Category:IMOCA 60 class sailors
Category:German Vendee Globe sailors
Category:2020 Vendee Globe sailors
Category:2024 Vendee Globe sailors
Category:Vendée Globe finishers
Category:Single-handed circumnavigating sailors
Category:Sportspeople from Oldenburg