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Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race Finish , The Humber
17.07.10. The Humber, Hull.
Ten months, 35,000 miles of ocean racing and around 400 people facing the challenge of a lifetime. When the starting gun went off for the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race on 13 September 2009 the fleet of ten sleek, stripped down 68-foot yachts embarked on a full circumnavigation of the globe.
From Europe across the Atlantic Ocean to South America, on to Africa, Australasia, Singapore, China, across the planet's largest expanse of water, the Pacific Ocean, to the USA, through the Panama Canal, one of man's great engineering triumphs, through the Caribbean to the east coast of the North American continent and back across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
The internationally sponsored yachts will finally cross their outward track to complete the circumnavigation shortly before the triumphant and emotional return to the Humber in July 2010. Keep checking back here for details on the festival to celebrate their return.
