Teacher joins yacht race challenge
A sailing teacher is to revive the only Irish boat in the amateur Clipper Round the World Yacht race
Monday March 15 2010
An English sailing teacher is to revive the only Irish boat in the amateur Clipper Round the World Yacht race.
Hannah Jenner, from Surrey, is to skipper the replacement Cork boat at the end of May after the city's first entry hit a reef in waters off Indonesia.
The 30-year-old's first challenge will be to race from Panama to Jamaica and will also lead the boat into Kinsale, Co Cork in July.
"I know we've got a lot of work to do but I am definitely up for the challenge and Cork has every chance of a great result," she said.
The Clipper 35,000 mile-race is billed as the only event of its type where people from all walks of life can race around the world on 68ft ocean-racing yachts, paying their own way.
The original Cork entry was damaged beyond repair and the crew safely rescued after it ran aground on a reef in the Java sea in January.
Hannah, who grew up in Shrewsbury, explained her passion for sailing: "It's about as far away from the water as you can get - but then, Dame Ellen McArthur grew up in Derbyshire so it must be something about being landlocked."
