Join the Clipper Parade of Sail on July 7

2nd July 2010

Cork's Clipper entry was flanked by an armada of boats as she raced into Kinsale on Sunday 27 June. Now there’s the chance to replicate that as the whole Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race fleet sails from Kinsale to Cork City on Wednesday 7 July.

Cork Clipper Festival is issuing an open invitation to join the parade and really show the visiting crews a Cork “Céad Míle Fáilte”

The official welcome will take place at 6pm on the main stage at Albert Quay in the Clipper Festival Race Village where the festival will be held until Friday 9 July. There will be more than 50 free acts on the main stage.

So come and join the fleet that has circumnavigated the globe in the official Clipper Parades of Sail on Wednesday 7 July from 11am and Friday 9 July from 1pm.

The ten competing yachts will elave Kinsale at 11am and sail into Cork Harbour between Roches Point and Weaver’s Point, on past Cobh for a photo shoot and then arrive at the new Cork City pontoons for 5pm. Cork Clipper Festival is issuing an open invitation to join the parade and really show the visiting crews a Cork “Céad Míle Fáilte”

The fleet will leave in a final farewell parade of sail at 1pm from Port of Cork before the yachts reach the Royal Cork Yacht Club start line at Weavers Point for the official start of the penultimate stage of Clipper 09-10 at 5pm.So come and join the fleet that has circumnavigated the globe in the official Clipper Parades of Sail on Wednesday 7 July from 11am and Friday 9 July from 1pm.

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About the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is undoubtedly one of the greatest ocean adventures on the planet, also regarded as one of its toughest endurance challenges. Taking almost a year to complete, it consists of eleven teams competing against each other on the world’s largest matched fleet of 70-foot ocean racing yachts.

The Clipper Race was established in 1996 by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail solo, non-stop, around the world in 1968-69. His aim was to allow anyone, regardless of previous sailing experience, the chance to embrace the thrill of ocean racing; it is the only event of its kind for amateur sailors. Around 40 per cent of crew are novices and have never sailed before starting a comprehensive training programme ahead of their adventure.

This unique challenge brings together everyone from chief executives to train drivers, nurses and firefighters, farmers, airline pilots and students, from age 18 upwards, to take on Mother Nature’s toughest and most remote conditions. There is no upper age limit, the oldest competitor to date is 76.

Now in its twelfth edition, the Clipper 2019-20 Race started from London, UK, on 02 September 2019.