Autor-Archive:Spatz

The travel to Subic Bay was comfortable and uneventful. I took a flight from Hamburg to Dubai and from Dubai to Clark International Airport. My first time on the Philippines. The arrangement for the 1 hour transfer to Subic Bay worked out perfectly. I had a long conversation with the driver. He assumed that I„Countdown – Subic Bay“ weiterlesen

Level 4 training is the crown of training. It is done with the race skipper, the AQP  and with members of your team on the boat you will be racing. 4 dates were available during earl summer and before race start. And for a reason I was only able to book the last date. This always„The tasting of Ocean sailing – Level 4 training“ weiterlesen

The next step in journey is a quite visible and important event in the Clipper adventure. Obviously one day the fleet need to start and take off. 11 Clipper 70 need to be crewed up. Most of the boats already got their main sponsor. Almost every two weeks a new boat design was disclosed. All„Showdown – crew allocation“ weiterlesen

April 2019 – and you could call it “summer” in the Solent. We again met on a Monday morning. New faces, new trainees and the first day no Sailing. Theory. Yes Clipper takes this very, very serious. We had classes of seamanship. Basically it was a summery of emergency procedures and work groups to solve„Level 3 training or the question – does this makes sense?“ weiterlesen

First week of March. I flew in on BA to London Heathrow in the evening and went to the same arrival routine as usually. Bus to Woking, Southwestern train to Portsmouth, ferry over to Gosport. It was a dull, wet, breezy evening. Drizzle and low overcast accompanied me when I walked through downtown Gosport, which„Training saves lives – the Clipper motto“ weiterlesen

Before I go to the level two training let me say something about the people that are involved in this Clipper adventure. And in order to do so I like to reflect again on my L1 first. All sorts of people get involved from all ages between 18 to well over 70. All professions are„Clipper Mates“ weiterlesen

It is quite a long way to finally become a qualified race member and it is good this way. Clipper pays a lot of attention to a very good training and naturally they have to. Yes I had several 10.000nm miles of sailing on my back, both in racing and also in leisure sailing in„To become Crew with Clipper“ weiterlesen

I actually don’t know how it really happened and why I was caught by the idea of the Clipper Around the World Virus in 2017. I always had the dream to cross an Ocean with a sailing vessel. I usually follow all the great races like Volvo Ocean Race (now Ocean Race), Vendee Globe, Sydney„Door opening into the Clipper World“ weiterlesen

This is my last part about my sailing history before I move over to the adventure ahead, the Clipper Round the World Race 19/20 and Leg 6 – the Mighty Pacific. In spring 1973 I started to “race” on a regular basis. Our youth group in the Schwartauer Segel Verein met every Wednesday for sail„The taste to race“ weiterlesen

Amazing what the crew of CV23 accomplished on the leg from Australia to the Philippines by winning the race. Congratulations. It was a thrilling masterpiece of sailing. The crew around Rich and Dan, more women than men took a very smart move and some fine tactics at the end to outstrip all opponents. Awesome. To„And the winner is…..“ weiterlesen