Overview

• The yacht IASV Triveni sailed from Mumbai’s Gateway of India after a virtual flag-off by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, starting the nine-month voyage.
• The 50-foot, indigenously built vessel carries 10 officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force led by Lt Col Anuja Varudkar with Sqn Ldr Shraddha P. Raju as deputy.
• The easterly route covers about 26,000 nautical miles under sail, crossing the Equator twice, rounding Capes Leeuwin, Horn and Good Hope, and calling at Fremantle, Lyttelton, Port Stanley and Cape Town before a planned May 2026 return.
• Organisers say the circumnavigation will follow World Sailing Speed Record Council norms requiring at least 21,600 nautical miles under sail alone, after three years of crew training that included a Mumbai–Seychelles trial.
• Officials identify the Southern Ocean and Cape Horn leg between December and February as the toughest phase, as the crew also conducts ocean research with the National Institute of Oceanography and undertakes military-diplomacy outreach at port calls.