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clipperroundtheworld.com THE MEDIA CONTACTS: Julia Fry, Head of Global Communications [email protected] + 44 (0) 7769 154 164

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Morgan Kasmarik, Global Communications Officer The Clipper Race is the biggest At 40,000 nautical miles long and taking [email protected] + 44 (0) 7793 417 751 round the world ocean adventure, almost a year to complete, it consists of twelve and is also regarded as one of the teams of everyday people competing against Kathryn Foulkes, Global Communications Officer [email protected] + 44 (0) 7500 002 436 toughest endurance challenges each other on the world’s largest matched fleet of 70-foot ocean racing yachts. on the planet. Grace Kitching, Global Communications Assistant [email protected] + 44 (0) 7500 002 955

KEY FACTS: Race HQ: +44 (0) 2392 526000 - Option 5 • The Clipper 2017-18 Race will be the • Crew can race around the world or take part eleventh edition of the biennial ocean race in one or more of the eight individual legs • The only global yacht race for amateur sailors • This unique challenge brings together SOCIAL CONTACTS: • Over eleven months, the fleet will cover 40,000 everyone from chief executives to train drivers, nautical miles, six continents, three capes nurses and firemen, farmers, Olympians, Media Portal and six ocean crossings airline pilots, students, and more www.clipperroundtheworld/mediaportal • 40 per cent of crew are novices and have never • Each of the twelve 70-foot yachts has a Website sailed before starting a comprehensive training 1,530sq m combined sail area – the size www.clipperroundtheworld.com programme ahead of their adventure. Only the of three Premier League football pitches Facebook Skippers who lead each team are professional • 1,4515m of rope is needed to rig one boat Clipper Round the World • Almost 5,000 novices have been turned into ocean • The overall route is split into a series of 13 Twitter racers since the first event over 20 years ago races and points are awarded for each race @clipperrace • 712 crew, representing 41 different nationalities • The team with the highest cumulative points are signed up to compete in the Clipper at the end of the final race wins the series, Instagram 2017-18 Race, making this edition our and the Clipper Race trophy @clipperrace biggest event to date • was established in 1995 by William YouTube • Crew must be 18 or older when the race Ward and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first ClipperRTW starts and there is no upper age limit. The oldest person to sail solo, non-stop around the world LinkedIn competitor in the 2017-18 edition will be 76 • The first race was held in 1996 www.linkedin.com/company/clipper-ventures ELEVENTH FUN FACTS:

• It’s estimated that the twelve teams will get through a combined 561,600 tea bags while they are at sea over eleven months

• More than half a million litres of water is filtered in the fleet’s month watermakers nautical40,000 miles duration 11 • On each yacht, round the world crew members will spend on average at least 504 hours nationalities individual of their life stood at the helm races over during the race represented 13 8 legs 41 • Each crew member burns around 5,000 calories a day

• The highest wind speed recorded was 86 knots in the Southern fleet of twelve Ocean during the 2015-16 edition, the equivalent of almost 100 mph! 70-foot bespoke one-design ocean racers, the Clipper 70s • The largest wave recorded was 90 feet tall, the equivalent of a 9-storey building non-professional 12/12 • The crews will have completed 12 teams and 12 a combined total of over half a crew members professional Skippers million training miles before the 712 race starts THE

This year the race has 712 crew members with 41 nationalities represented. It is the first time we have crew members from Mauritius, the Cayman Islands, Uruguay and the Czech Republic. Male / female crew split: 514 / 198

Oldest female crew member: 71 BREAKDOWN: Oldest female round the world crew member: 65 Number Number of of crew: 712 nationalities: 41 Youngest female crew member: 18 Youngest female round the world crew member: 27 BREAKDOWN OF NATIONALITIES: Oldest male crew member: 76

United Kingdom Chile Oldest male round the world crew member: 69 USA Czech Republic Youngest male crew member: 18 Norway Greece

China Hong Kong Youngest male round the world crew member: 22 Germany India Korea (South) Number of occupations: 337 - Including carpenters, Russian Federation Cayman Islands teachers, students, IT, property developers, airline Ireland Argentina Mauritius pilots, solicitors, investors, surveyors, farmers, Olympic Denmark Peru coaches, geologists, builders, firefighters, nurses, Mexico Portugal doctors, conservationists, scientists, designers, directors, translators, dentists, train drivers, politicians, Netherlands Slovenia Romania photographers, professors, house wives, engineers plus Turkey Uruguay a yoga master, race horse trainer and a linesman. Austria Singapore Sweden Bulgaria THE

LANCE SHEPHERD BOB BEGGS GAËTAN THOMAS CONALL MORRISON

55 57 29 36 British British Belgian British (Northern Irish) MEET THE TWELVE Blackpool Cornwall Brussels Derry-Londonderry PROFESSIONAL Liverpool 2018 Unicef Garmin HotelPlanner.com YACHTSMEN AND WOMEN WHO WILL LEAD THEIR TEAMS.

After an extensive worldwide search, twelve professional Skippers have DAVID HARTSHORN DALE SMYTH NIKKI HENDERSON WENDY TUCK been selected to lead the crew and 52 35 24 52 take on the planet’s most challenging British British British Australian conditions in search of glory and Monmouthshire Liverpool Guildford the Clipper Race Trophy. Greenings Dare To Lead Visit Seattle Sanya Serenity Coast

For the second edition in a row, two female Skippers will be leading Clipper Race teams, one of whom will be the youngest Clipper Race Skipper to date. The other is the first female to race two .

ROY TAYLOR CHRIS KOBUSCH ANDY BURNS ROB GRAHAM

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SIR ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON CHAIRMAN OF CLIPPER VENTURES PLC

• legend Sir Robin Knox-Johnston • Sir Robin competed in the was the first person to sail solo, non-stop – Destination Guadeloupe around the world in 1968-69 in the 2014 in the Rhum class against 19 other Sunday Times Golden Globe Race competitors. He crossed the finish line on his • Executive Chairman and founding Director Open 60 Grey Power in Guadeloupe after 20 of Clipper Ventures Plc, he is at the forefront days, 7 hours, 52 minutes and 22 seconds at of promoting round the world sea, taking third place • Sir Robin has been involved in sailing all his life • Sir Robin wanted everyone to have the opportunity to race around the world as • In addition to his historic Golden Globe fewer people have done so than have achievement, he also set the record for the climbed Mount Everest fastest with Sir in 1994 and was awarded the • Set up Clipper Ventures Plc in 1995 with William Ward, providing ocean racing • In 2007, he completed his second solo yachts, equipment, qualified Skippers circumnavigation when he competed in the and intensive training • Sir Robin says: “Sailing transcends • He has been named RYA/YJA Yachtsman of language, territories and cultural boundaries. the Year an unprecedented four times It’s human will against nature. It’s theatre that • Sir Robin participated in the 2010 Rolex plays itself out on the high seas, where crews Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race at the age of 71. have to call on skill, strategy and valuable He returned in 2013 aged 74 and in 2015 know-how to outmanoeuvre and outwit aged 76, to compete in the 69th and 71st competitors racing against them.” RSHYR aboard a Clipper 68, one of the two to be based permanently in Sydney at the Australian division of the Clipper Race RACE

previous 10 editions 3,915,000 4,700 nautical miles sailed crew members (cumulative by all yachts competing)

of one design three ocean racers 87 generations winners teams 10 individual races in 10 27 150 editions countries visited so far RACE

Sir Robin and William Ward Clipper 1998 Race Clipper 2002 Race form Clipper Ventures Winning Yacht / Skipper Winning Yacht / Skipper Fleet of 8 one design Ariel / Alex Thomson Jersey / Simon Rowell 60-foot ocean racers created Number of crew: 230 Number of crew: 230

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Sir Robin becomes the first person to sail New fleet of 10 solo, non-stop around Clipper 1996 Race Times Clipper 2000 Race one design 68-foot the world, when he Winning Yacht / Skipper Winning Yacht / Skipper ocean racers won the Sunday Times Ariel / Ras Turner Bristol / Bob Beggs created to replace Golden Globe Race Number of crew: 186 Number of crew: 263 Clipper 60 fleet New Clipper 70 Fleet (x12) Clipper 2017-18 Race 20 August 2017 - 28 July 2018

Clipper 2002 Race Clipper Clipper Clipper Clipper Race Winning Yacht / Skipper 2005-06 Race 2009-10 Race 2013-14 Race 20th Anniversary Jersey / Simon Rowell Winning Yacht / Skipper Winning Yacht / Skipper Winning Yacht / Skipper 20th October 2016 Number of crew: 230 WesternAustralia.com / Spirit of Australia / Henri Lloyd / Eric Holden Mark Preedy Brendan Hall Number of crew: 670 Number of crew: 310 Number of crew: 392

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2005 2009 2013 2017 Clipper Clipper 2011-12 Race Clipper 2007-08 Race Winning Yacht / Skipper 2015-16 Race Winning Yacht / Skipper Gold Coast Australia / Race training hub Winning Yacht / Skipper New York / Duggie Gillespie Richard Hewson launched in Sydney, LMAX Exchange / Olivier Cardin Number of crew: 352 Number of crew: 448 Australia Number of crew: 690 THE THE 70 IN DETAIL SPECIFICATIONS IMPERIAL METRIC CLIPPER 70 Length Overall 75’6” 23m Beam 18’6” 5.65m Draft 9’10” 3m Mainsail Area 1,326 ft sq 123.19 m sq Headsail Area 1,812.97 ft sq 168.43 m sq Asymmetric Spinnaker Area 3,555.75 ft sq 330.34 m sq Mast Height from waterline 95 ft 29 m Displacement 31.19 UK long ton 31,700 kg Bulb Keel 11.81 UK long ton 12,000 kg

THE BIGGEST MATCHED OCEAN RACING FLEET.

• Twelve identical 70-foot ocean • The deck has: Eleven winches, • The fastest boat speed recorded on racing yachts twin grinders, twin helm. a Clipper 70 is 39.7 knots during Leg • Designed by renowned naval • The Clipper 70 has 11 different sails 8 across the North Atlantic from New architect Tony Castro in its wardrobe and the combined sail York, to Derry-Londonderry in the • The Clipper 70 rig is 29 metres tall area for a Clipper 70 yacht is 1,530 Clipper 2015-16 Race. • The hull hosts twin rudders square metres. • The Clipper 70 fleet has covered a cumulative total of over half a million nautical miles. GLOBAL THE Disclaimer: Actual time and distances are released at the end of each race.

LEG NUMBER RACE CITY TO CITY DISTANCE DAYS RACING START DATE

LEG 1 01 LIVERPOOL, UK // PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY 6,363 nM Around 35 days racing 20 August 2017

LEG 2 02 PUNTA DEL ESTE // , SOUTH AFRICA 3,560 nM Around 17 days racing 04 October 2017

LEG 3 03 CAPE TOWN // FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA 4,754 nM Around 23 days racing 31 October 2017

LEG 4 04 FREMANTLE // SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 2,450 nM Around 14 days racing 02 December 2017

05 SYDNEY // HOBART, AUSTRALIA 633 nM Around 4 days racing 26 December 2017

06 HOBART // WHITSUNDAYS, TASMANIA 1,610 nM Around 9 days racing 05 January 2018

LEG 5 07 WHITSUNDAYS // SANYA, CHINA 4,293 nM Around 27 days racing 29 January 2018

08 SANYA // QINGDAO, CHINA 1,661 nM Around 10 days racing 04 March 2018

LEG 6 09 QINGDAO // SEATTLE, USA 5,528 nM Around 27 days racing 23 March 2018

LEG 7 10 SEATTLE // PANAMA 4,078 nM Around 26 days racing 29 April 2018

11 PANAMA // NEW YORK, USA 2,013 nM Around 12 days racing 03 June 2018

LEG 8 12 NEW YORK // DERRY-LONDONDERRY, NI 2,953 nM Around 18 days racing 25 June 2018

13 DERRY-LONDONDERRY // LIVERPOOL, UK 900 nM Around 5 days racing 22 July 2018

RTW ROUND THE WORLD // CIRCUMNAVIGATION 40,796 nM Around 227 days racing 20 August 2017 THE TEAMS

THE 12 CLIPPER RACE YACHTS ARE A UNIQUE MARKETING AND BRAND ACTIVATION PLATFORM TO PROMOTE KEY MESSAGES FOR COMPANIES AND EACH YACHT IS REPRESENTED BY A BRAND OR DESTINATION.

www.visitseattle.org www.greatbritaincampaign.com www.qdsailing.org Returning for the second consecutive race The GREAT Britain campaign, the UK China’s Sailing City, Qingdao, returns for edition as a Host Port and Team Partner, Government’s most ambitious marketing its seventh consecutive race edition. Seattle’s maritime history and adventurous spirit campaign, showcases the very best of what the Over the last twelve years, the Clipper Race goes hand in hand with the Clipper Race. Making nation has to offer in order to encourage the world has brought thousands of crew, visitors, VIPs its debut in the 2015-16 edition, Visit Seattle to visit, study and do business with the UK. For and business partners to Qingdao and China, helped to promote the city as a destination for the GREAT Britain campaign, the Clipper 2017-18 boosting tourism and developing trade, with leisure, tourism and business. Race will be about projecting Britain’s values, as tangible deals and significant visitor-generated much as opportunities for business. economic impact.

INTERNAT IONAL www.unicef.org.uk en.sanyatour.com www.greeningsinternational.com Unicef UK has joined forces with the The tropical city of Sanya, China, is making its Greenings International is built on 29 years Clipper Race for the second consecutive debut as a Host Port and Team Partner for the of trusted relationships with business leaders edition to raise vital awareness and funds 2017-18 and 2019-20 editions of the Clipper Race. around the world. Greenings, a world leader in for children in danger. The world’s leading sourcing senior level executive talent for card Sanya will use the Clipper Race to promote organisation for children, Unicef, first partnered payment and Fintech clients, is a first-time itself as a tourist destination and as an influential with the race in 2015, when it was selected Team Partner in the Clipper 2017-18 Race. business platform to build its reputation as an as the official Clipper Race charity. international sailing destination.

www.hotelplanner.com www.cultureliverpool.co.uk www.garmin.com HotelPlanner.com is a first-time Clipper Race Liverpool’s newest international destination Following two successful race campaigns, Team Partner. campaign, Liverpool 2018, is pleased to the Global GPS Navigation and Wearable enter a team in the Clipper 2017-18 Round Technology company, Garmin, has returned as Founded in 2002, HotelPlanner.com provides hotel the World Yacht Race. a Team Partner for the Clipper 2017-18 Race. booking services to 3,000 groups per day in the global group travel market. The company’s robust The city’s team entry and Start and Finish As well as actively supporting the Garmin team technology and automated rate checkers provide Partner status marks the tenth anniversary of throughout its 40,000 nautical mile journey, customers with the guaranteed lowest available the city’s game-changing tenure as European Garmin will be the Action Camera Provider and rates from a network of more than 100,000 quality Capital of Culture, which will see preparations Official Marine Electronics Partner for the entire hotel partners worldwide. for another year under the international spotlight. Clipper 2017-18 Race fleet.

www.nasdaq.com www.psp-logistics.com www.daretolead.info Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a leading global Global freight forwarder and international Dare To Lead is an exciting first-time provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, boat transportation company, PSP Logistics, Team Partner in the Clipper 2017-18 Race. listing, information and public company services. will be a third time Team Partner in the It will be unique among the Clipper Race Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq Clipper 2017-18 Race. fleet in that it will be promoting an inspirational enables customers to plan, optimize and execute concept rather than any particular organisation As well as providing general sea and air their business vision with confidence, using proven or destination. freight services to clients all over the world, technologies that provide transparency and insight PSP Logistics specialises in project shipping, for navigating today’s global capital markets. which includes large out-of-gauge cargo such as yachts and wind turbines. RACE

HOST PORT PARTNERS:

Liverpool www.visitliverpool.com Sanya en.sanyatour.com Punta del Este www.welcomeuruguay.com Qingdao www.thatsqingdao.com Cape Town www.waterfront.co.za Seattle www.visitseattle.org Fremantle www.fremantlestory.com.au Panama Canal www.visitpanama.com Sydney www.sydney.com New York www.nycgo.com Hobart www.discovertasmania.com.au Derry-Londonderry www.foylemaritimefestival.com Whitsundays www. tourismwhitsundays.com.au

FLEET PARTNERS: OFFICIAL SUPPLIERS:

Unicef Charity Partner CopperCoat Official Antifoul Partner Henri Lloyd Technical Clothing Partner Sta-Lok Official Standing Rigging Partner Stormhoek Wines Wine Partner Hyde Sails, Official Sails Partner ClipperTelemed+ by Praxis Medical Partner Marlow Ropes Official Cordage Partner Elliot Brown Official Timekeeper Marine Travel Official Marine Travel Partner Dell Rugged Computer Partner Ocean Safety Official Safety Partner Microsoft Azure Cloud Innovation Partner ChartCo Official Nautical Chart Services Partner MaxSea Official Navigation Software Partner PSP Logistics Official Logistics Partner Garmin Official Marine Electronics & Action Camera Partner WHO WINS? POINT SCORING

HOW IT WORKS:

• 13 individual races using the high point • Yachts can also activate ‘Stealth Mode’ scoring system for a 24-hour period in some races or 48 hours for longer races. During this time, • The winner of each race is awarded 12 points, their position will not be available for the the second 11 points and so on down to public or other boats to see, giving them the 1 point for 12th chance to go for different tactics • Teams can also gain bonus points at • Points can be lost by infringing the strategically-placed Scoring Gates or by Racing Rules, Sailing Instructions or by winning the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprints damaging boat equipment or sails • A brand new and exciting feature for the • The Race Committee sets the course and Clipper 2017-18 Race is ‘The Joker’. ensures that the yachts comply with the rules Each team can play it once AND for one race only. Race points are doubled for the • The race rules are governed by race that it is in play (formally known as ISAF) Racing Rules of Sailing

• The yacht with the highest cumulative • Skippers are provided with weather reports from points at the end of the 13 races wins the the Race Committee for the duration of the race. Clipper Race Trophy WANT TO GET

MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE

• You could be at the bow to report on the action and be part of the drama as it unfolds

• We offer a limited number of media berth places on board each of the eight legs of the race providing the unique opportunity to experience the challenge first hand and tell your audience what it’s really like to be part of this remarkable adventure

• Full training across four individual weeks and kit is provided in addition to the berth to prepare you to face the world’s oceans

• It’s easy to send back content from videos to photos and copy via state of the art satellite communication

• For a taster of the challenge we also offer opportunities to participate in media sail days in numerous Host Ports during the race

For further information please contact www.clipperroundtheworld/mediaportal Tel: +44 (0) 2392 526000 Clipper Round the World Fax: +44 (0) 2392 526252 @clipperrace E mail: [email protected] @clipperrace ClipperRTW clipperroundtheworld.com linkedin.com/company/clipper-ventures