We wrote recently about the Cllipper Round The World Yacht Race that started this weekend:
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race begins in St Katherine’s Dock London on August 30th and then begins in earnest from Southend Pier on August 31st. As the Port of London Authority explains:
30th August 2015
12 yachts will lock out of St Katherine?s Dock from approximately 1400 until 1530. At 1530 4
of these will pass under Tower Bridge and gather on the Starboard side of the Upper Pool as.
31st August 2015
The yachts will gather south of Southend Pier from 1200, a cannon will be sounded at 1220 to
indicate the ten minutes before the race start. The race will commence at 1230 and yachts
will start their passage outbound.
Jim Cripps has kindly sent us these photos (click to enlarge):
Sad News – one of the crew members was killed early hours of Friday morning,
thought to have been struck by the mainsail boom whilst reefing the sail off of
Portugal.
Rest in Peace mate , died doing what you loved to do ……..