Clipper 11-12 Race
The fleet departed from Ocean Village on 31 July 2011 and the race started in the Solent. The race will last a full year and cover an estimated 40,000 nautical miles.
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Famous quotes containing the word race:
“You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficed
Still live,—but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)