Clipper Around-The-World Race

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Aug 18th 2005 at 9:09AM

The Clipper 05/06 race is an around-the-world adventure for ten vessels that will set sail from Liverpool on September 18. The ships are all identical to make certain that the race is won on ability. What's interesting about this race is that only the skipper is a professional. The crews are formed of volunteers who have paid to join the adventure. The race is split into six sections of six-to-eight weeks and to participate volunteers pay £6,000 -£6,800 per leg including training. The entire race will take around a year to complete. The boat shown here Glasgow: Scotland with Style was paid for buy the city council.

[via The Evening Times]

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