page_title: Silverrudder Challenge
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Silverrudder Challenge / History
caption_attribution_description: English: From start 4. Category 4: Keelboats Large in the eastern part of Svendborg Sound.
context_page_description: Silverrudder Challenge of the Sea is an annual single-handed sailing event that goes round the island of Funen in Denmark close to the time of the autumn equinox. Silverrudder Challenge of the Sea is the world's biggest singlehanded offshore category 3 regatta in terms of the number of participants. The regatta begins and ends at the town of Svendborg, located at the most southern part of the island of Funen in Denmark.
context_section_description: Silverrudder Challenge of the Sea originated with Morten Brandt Rasmussen, former Editor in Chief and Event Designer of the Danish sailing media BådNyt. He developed the idea of a single-handed sailing event for recreational sailors to take place at autumn equinox, and he coined the name first in Danish and later in English. The idea was to make an event for yachtsmen equivalent to that of Marathon running and Ironman triathlon for recreational sailors.
  In 2012, the event was a Danish-only regatta and went by the Danish name SølvRoret – Havets Jernmand (Silverrudder – Ironman of the sea). It attracted 15 submissions and 12 boats on the starting line. In 2013 100 skippers submitted and 86 were on the starting line.
  In 2014, the event changed the name to Silverrudder Challenge of the Sea. 200 were enlisted and 187 were on the starting line. Half of the participants were from outside Denmark. 8 different nationalities were present and for the first time three of the winners were from outside Denmark.
  In 2015, the race sold out at 330 participants some three months before the start. New records were set in 5 of the 7 classes and only three of the records (and thus three Silverrudder Challenge Trophies) remained in Denmark. The remaining five went to participants from Germany.
caption: From the start of the race. Photo of the first boats in the fourth start: Keelboats Category Large.
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