Braving the Big One

Overview

With many long stages in their logbooks, the event moves to two short sprints between Vietnam and China. It’s here we meet three circumnavigators with three very different reasons to race – a videographer living on board behind the lens, a technology manager wanting to break away from her steady, normal life and a student chosen to sail around the world whilst representing his home city of Qingdao. Then it’s back to ocean racing and THE BIG ONE – the North Pacific crossing. This challenge is one of the main reasons many crew sign up to compete on the Clipper Race as it is the only round the world sailing event to feature this relentless and vast ocean. These waters are so remote that the closest other humans to the crew are the astronauts in the International Space Station.