My mate Ian's round the world race with Clipper Ventures…...
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soooo, they are here today???
let me look on their site & try yo figure this out. . . .
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Derek Lundy's great book about the '95-96 Vendee Globe race, GODFORSAKEN SEA, has hair-raising scenes of the single-person sailors of the 60-footers, sleepless days on end, climbing their 80-foot masts in Southern Ocean gales to fix halyards, repair lines, or hand-furl and the like. Amazing stuff.
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i'll see them in about a year or so. safe travels
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Popped down to see Ian off today. He left here to go about 20 miles down the coast to Southampton. Southampton is the port that the fleet will sail from on Sunday.
Not as worrying as it looks, this is a smaller class of boat undergoing a righting test
My friend Sir Robin Knox Johnston (who was the first guy who sailed around the world single handed and is the guy behind this race) with the local Mayor. Robin is the one scratching his beard, the Mayor is the one wearing the necklace
Opposition
Opposition
Opposition, opposition, opposition
Ian's boat
Ian then decides he needs to fix something up the mast (10 mins to spare - no sweat)
And at last they are off (that is not me Ian blows a kiss to)
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We're very excited about having places on one of the spectator boats that will be sending all the Clipper yachts off on Sunday. Lots of fun (but my dear friend Sarah is Ian's fiancee and facing a year apart, so there will also be some tears…)
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No.
Take a look here. You can actually do a replay, and sometime in the early hours of last night there were 4 boats very close together, Qingdao was one of them. Then she peeled off and started heading north, the other 3 continued generally in a Southerly (correct) direction
http://www.clipperroundtheworld.com/index.php/follow/race-viewer/
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woah, so what happens now ? also, u know how hard it is for me not to make one of my ironic remarks…I assume this is somewhat of a tragedy - but I really want to comment on the "not enough rum" stuff....biting my tongue
We can do anything
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Anyway. Here are a few pics from yesterday.
There is always one arse at an event like this (this time it was not me). Amongst 100's of spectator boats, an aircraft carrier and 10 racing 68 footers, this jerk decided to have a ski…....
The fleet heading to the start/finish line
New York motoring to the start/finish line
Qingdao (Ian) Gold Coast and motoring to the start finish line. You can see the 2 foresails ready to be hoisted - these will go up about 10 minutes before race start
