Arctic regatta in 2011
Next summer the first ever Novaya Zemlya regatta takes place. The race starts in Murmansk, goes around the Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef’s Land and finishes in Murmansk.
12 crews from different countries have already confirmed participation in the regatta, Kurier-media.ru reports.
The organizer of the regatta is the captain of the yacht “Peter I”, Daniil Gavrilov. “Peter I” was one of the two boats to first sail around the North Pole in one season. The record was set this summer, when “Peter I” and the Norwegian sailing boat “Northern Passage”, led by the Norwegian explorer Børge Ousland, managed to sail through both the Northeast and Northwest passages in less than three months.
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