Ambition Racing to attend The Southampton Boat Show 2008
Press Release – September 2008
The amateur, double-handed sailing team of Jeremy Salvesen and Victoria Sanders-Perrin to meet journalists and the public and share their plans and ambitions for the 2008/09 Portimão Global Ocean Race
Jeremy Salvesen and Victoria Sanders-Perrin only started sailing back in August 2005 but they have already secured an entry into the inaugural Portimão Global Ocean Race. Last month they completed a 2,000mile compulsory qualifier and were accepted onto the starting line-up of the ocean race departing in October - the only UK team to do so.
Salvesen and Sanders-Perrin have spent the last 4 months making sure that their Akilaria Class 40 yacht, Mowgli is up to the challenges of Ocean Racing and, whilst Mowgli withstood all that the Atlantic threw at it during the qualifier, the two sailors got more than a taster of what could be in store for them when the race starts However, they are not daunted and are all guns blazing for the race in the autumn. They set sail for Portugal on 20th September.
The Portimão Global Ocean Race is the first ever solo-double around-the-world yacht race. The event, open to 40 and 50-foot monohull sailboats only, will start from Portimão, Portugal in October 2008 and circumnavigate the world stopping in South Africa, New Zealand, Brazil and the United States before finishing in Europe in June 2009.
Race founders Josh Hall and Brian Hancock, themselves veteran offshore sailors, say “The principal intention with this new event is to make around-the-world yacht racing as accessible to as many people as possible”
Salvesen and Sanders-Perrin gave up their jobs, sold their houses and moved to Portsmouth to embark on a vigorous training programme.
The Ambition Racing team will be the first ever male / female team to take on the challenge to race around the world in a 40ft boat in the Southern Ocean and, as if the experience in itself won’t be challenging enough, a camera crew will be following the team every step of the way.
Goldhawk Media are developing a series of documentaries to reflect the reality, glamour and danger of offshore racing and the adventures of the Ambition Racing team will be central to the programmes.
Once the domain of the super-rich, around-the-world yacht racing is becoming more and more accessible and by sharing their experiences, Ambition Racing hope to inspire and motivate sailors who may feel that a global circumnavigation is out of their reach both financially and practically.
For further information on Ambition Racing and the Portimão Global Ocean Race 2008/2009 please go to:
http://www.ambitionracing.com http://www.portimaoglobaloceanrace.com
OR contact Susie Reid Thomas at Silver Thread Communications on:
susie@silverthreadpr.com / 020 8875 8444 / 07802 670 995
NOTE TO EDITORS
Jeremy, 45, from Fife on the east coast of Scotland and owner of an entrepreneur confectionary business, was hugely inspired after a trip to New Zealand and a conversation with a ‘Round the World’ yacht crew. So inspired was he that, after signing up to this incredible global challenge, he sold his business and set up home on Mowgli.
Victoria, 33 and born in Cape Town, was, until recently, still looking after a ½ billion turnover for Xerox. She decided to take on this life changing experience after meeting Charlie Smith (a Xerox employee who was in the news after a freak wave hit his boat whilst racing off the coast of Australia). Personal issues also inspired her to take on this adventure with huge determination and great spirit.
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The amateur, double-handed sailing team of Jeremy Salvesen and Victoria Sanders-Perrin to meet journalists and the public and share their plans and ambitions for the 2008/09 Portimão Global Ocean Race
Jeremy Salvesen and Victoria Sanders-Perrin only started sailing back in August 2005 but they have already secured an entry into the inaugural Portimão Global Ocean Race. Last month they completed a 2,000mile compulsory qualifier and were accepted onto the starting line-up of the ocean race departing in October - the only UK team to do so.
Salvesen and Sanders-Perrin have spent the last 4 months making sure that their Akilaria Class 40 yacht, Mowgli is up to the challenges of Ocean Racing and, whilst Mowgli withstood all that the Atlantic threw at it during the qualifier, the two sailors got more than a taster of what could be in store for them when the race starts However, they are not daunted and are all guns blazing for the race in the autumn. They set sail for Portugal on 20th September.
The Portimão Global Ocean Race is the first ever solo-double around-the-world yacht race. The event, open to 40 and 50-foot monohull sailboats only, will start from Portimão, Portugal in October 2008 and circumnavigate the world stopping in South Africa, New Zealand, Brazil and the United States before finishing in Europe in June 2009.
Race founders Josh Hall and Brian Hancock, themselves veteran offshore sailors, say “The principal intention with this new event is to make around-the-world yacht racing as accessible to as many people as possible”
Salvesen and Sanders-Perrin gave up their jobs, sold their houses and moved to Portsmouth to embark on a vigorous training programme.
The Ambition Racing team will be the first ever male / female team to take on the challenge to race around the world in a 40ft boat in the Southern Ocean and, as if the experience in itself won’t be challenging enough, a camera crew will be following the team every step of the way.
Goldhawk Media are developing a series of documentaries to reflect the reality, glamour and danger of offshore racing and the adventures of the Ambition Racing team will be central to the programmes.
Once the domain of the super-rich, around-the-world yacht racing is becoming more and more accessible and by sharing their experiences, Ambition Racing hope to inspire and motivate sailors who may feel that a global circumnavigation is out of their reach both financially and practically.
For further information on Ambition Racing and the Portimão Global Ocean Race 2008/2009 please go to:
http://www.ambitionracing.com http://www.portimaoglobaloceanrace.com
OR contact Susie Reid Thomas at Silver Thread Communications on:
susie@silverthreadpr.com / 020 8875 8444 / 07802 670 995
NOTE TO EDITORS
Jeremy, 45, from Fife on the east coast of Scotland and owner of an entrepreneur confectionary business, was hugely inspired after a trip to New Zealand and a conversation with a ‘Round the World’ yacht crew. So inspired was he that, after signing up to this incredible global challenge, he sold his business and set up home on Mowgli.
Victoria, 33 and born in Cape Town, was, until recently, still looking after a ½ billion turnover for Xerox. She decided to take on this life changing experience after meeting Charlie Smith (a Xerox employee who was in the news after a freak wave hit his boat whilst racing off the coast of Australia). Personal issues also inspired her to take on this adventure with huge determination and great spirit.
Visitors, users and viewers of the content to which this notice is attached may copy it for re-use and syndicate the content by whatever means for use to other internet content sites on condition the source of all material so used is acknowledged with the attachment of the following notice.
www.superyachtnews.blogspot.com 2008
www.ajaxnetphoto.com 2008
This content may NOT be used in any print media made available for commercial resale.
The products and companies named in this website content are trademarks, registered trademarks or servicemarks of their respective owners or licensed users.
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Wow I wish they had something like that down here in California! I mean there are a lot of people down here and it would most definitely be a memorable day in a kodak moment type of history!
It really does look like a fun event and I wonder what other events like it they have planned! :)
With events like this Im sure with its positivity it will only enhance smiles all around the world!
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