The programme will include interviews with skippers and various crew members from the boats participating in this years race as well as news, special features, behind the scenes information, profiles, spectacular footage from the end of the 1st leg as well as an overview of the race so far. The Green Dragon has been stripped and lifted out of the water and the shore team are hard at work repairing the damage from Leg 1, before preparing the mighty Dragon for the next leg to India.
The boats will leave Cape Town on Saturday 15 November with the 2nd leg bringing them to Cochin (Kochi) in India - a distance of 4,450 nautical miles. This race is quite simply the 'Everest of Sailing' with the eight competing teams and boats sailing across 37,000 nautical miles of the globe's most treacherous seas. Throughout the event the crews will experience life at the extreme and it is not difficult to see why this event, which was established in 1973 as The Whitbread Round the World Race, is undeniably the world's premier global race, and one of the most demanding team sporting events in the world. The event will visit 11 ports around the world, including Galway which the boats will reach in May next year.
The programmes will be available on www.tg4.tv from Sunday morning onwards (Just visit www.tg4.tv and click on 'Sport').
