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About the race, racing schedule & route<br />
The 2004/05 Global Challenge is the fourth ocean boat<br />
race of its kind to be run. The first one was the British<br />
Steel Challenge in 1992, followed at four yearly intervals<br />
by the BT Global Challenge. The Global Challenge<br />
2004/05 race will cover over 30,000 nautical miles,<br />
150 days at sea, 50-foot waves and winds over 70 miles<br />
per hour - conditions that truly make the Global Challenge<br />
the challenge of a lifetime.<br />
On Sunday, October 3, 2004, 12 identical 72ft<br />
ocean racing yachts set sail <strong>from</strong> Portsmouth in the UK.<br />
Each yacht has a crew of seventeen ordinary men and<br />
women drawn <strong>from</strong> a variety of different backgrounds,<br />
ages and abilities. Led by a professional skipper, they<br />
have one common objective, to achieve something<br />
extraordinary and to win the prestigious Princess Royal<br />
Trophy on their return.<br />
The race will take them around the world the wrong<br />
way, against the prevailing winds and currents, stopping<br />
in Buenos Aires, Wellington, Sydney, Cape Town,<br />
Boston and La Rochelle before returning to Portsmouth<br />
in the UK to a heroes welcome some 10 months later.<br />
Conditions will range <strong>from</strong> the unpredictable calms of<br />
the doldrums to the immense seas of the southern oceans,<br />
where the crews will encounter icebergs and gale<br />
force winds.<br />
The event itself is a multifaceted experience with a<br />
large business community both sponsoring and supporting<br />
the race - over 120 organizations can participate<br />
in the event through a variety of sponsorship<br />
and partnerships. A global audience of spectators will<br />
also be supporting the race, visiting the ports of call,<br />
following the event on the race web site and through<br />
coverage in the world’s media.<br />
The Race Schedule<br />
Racing Schedule & Route<br />
The fleet left the UK on October 3, 2004, to race across<br />
the Equator to Buenos Aires in South America.<br />
From here, the boats set sail for the infamous<br />
Cape Horn, encountering the winds and waves of the<br />
Roaring Forties as they push on to the next port of call,<br />
Wellington in New Zealand. This is the longest stopover<br />
on the race, as the yachts are taken out of the water,<br />
repaired and prepared for the second part of the Southern<br />
Ocean.<br />
Leg 4 is a sprint to Sydney, Australia. The fleet will<br />
then enter the Southern Ocean once more heading for<br />
the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town.<br />
The crews will then head across the Atlantic on the<br />
longest leg to Boston in the US. After the stopover, they<br />
will depart for the UK, with a short stop in La Rochelle,<br />
France, to complete their 30,000-mile journey, arriving<br />
back in the UK in the summer of 2005.<br />
Leg From To Days at SeaBetween<br />
Miles Leg Start Dates<br />
1 Portsmouth Buenos Aires 31-35 6,200 3 Oct 2004<br />
2 Buenos Aires Wellington 36-41 6,100 28 Nov 2004<br />
3 Wellington Sydney 7 1,250 6 Feb 2005<br />
4 Sydney Cape Town 35-41 6,200 27 Feb 2005<br />
5 Cape Town Boston 34-38 6,775 1 May 2005<br />
6 Boston Northern Europe 13-17 3,000 19 June 2005<br />
7 La Rochelle Portsmouth 4 420 13 July 2005<br />
Finish Date 17 July 2005<br />
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