Clipper 09-10 - Changing conditions provides fantastic sailing

1:18 PM Mon 31 May 2010 GMT

'Edinburgh Inspiring Capital at the start - Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race' Clipper Ventures PLC &copy

Clipper Update: After the inevitable frustrations of the very light conditions of the past few days, over the last 24 hours the conditions have changed to produce some fantastic downwind sailing and, with the forecast for the next 24 hours showing the winds strengthening, the race to New York is on. The nervous tension in the skippers' reports to the Race Office this morning is almost palpable as the end game to Race 10 plays out. 'Steady south easterly winds have created one of the finest day's sailing on Qingdao since we were last in the Atlantic,' writes Chris Stanmore-Major, ...

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by Clipper Ventures PLC