The Race is On

January 29, 2018

The Race is On

Clipper Race Update 1 Airlie to Sanya
Getting set to set sail! We’ve cleared customs and cleared out Woolies and Coles and are about to slip lines on our race to China. It’s a beautiful morning in Airlie Beach and after a Parade of Sail and a short race around the bay we are off through the reef to Sanya. The race proper starts tomorrow at 12:00 Qld time. Don’t forget to watch the start today at 2pm (3pm EDT)on #Clipperrace on Facebook live and monitor our progress on the Clipper Race viewer, we are on on Garmin (Jane) and Nasdaq (Graham)

Victualling - some of Garmin's supplies being sorted into day bags

The Fleet at Rest, Abell Point Marina

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WELCOME

Welcome to IntrepidToo - a journey around the world by road and sea. What started as a road trip from Sydney to Europe in a BMW X5 became the Clipper Round the World yacht race, sailing from Sydney to New York, and more recently a catamaran cruise along the Central American coast.

The road trip marked the completion of the Asian Highway Project, a UN sponsored initiative to provide a common standard road network linking all the countries of Asia with Europe. Along the way it entailed visiting as many UNESCO World Heritage sites as possible.

Due for imminent completion, our task was to find out how far they've got. It was also a quest to find the best creme brulee between Sydney and Sweden and the best margaritas outside Mexico.

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is an 11 month long, 40,000nm race for amateur sailors in 12 identical 70' racing yachts, each with a crew of 18 and a professional skipper. We join in Australia for the legs to China, then across the North Pacific to Seattle and via the Panama Canal to New York, a voyage equivalent to the circumference of the globe.

It's also an occasional tale of continuing meanderings around the Middle East, Africa, Asia and anywhere else which takes our fancy.