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Article: Counting down to the clipper race ; A Countdown clock to the start of this year's Clipper Round The World Yacht Race is to be unveiled.
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- Hull Daily Mail (UK)
- Article date:
- January 3, 2009
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A Countdown clock to the start of this year's Clipper Round The
World Yacht Race is to be unveiled.
The 2009/10 challenge will start from Hull on September 13.
Race organisers will unveil the clock at the opening day of the
London International Boat Show on Friday.
Legendary solo round-the-world yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-
Johnston, chairman of race organisers Clipper Ventures Plc, will be
joined at the ceremony by Terry Hodgkinson, chairman of regional
development agency Yorkshire Forward, which helped secure the
prestigious event for the region.
The Hull and Humber Clipper finished in second place in last
year's race and generated millions of pounds of publicity and new
business for the ...