Clipper Recruiters In Bay Area This Week

If following the Volvo Ocean and Vendée Globe races has left you with a desire for some ’round the world action but you lack sufficient credentials or a multi-million dollar sponsor to do either, you have an option! The Governor has signed up the State of California to sponsor a boat in the 2009-10 Clipper ‘Round the World Race, and Clipper Ventures is looking for Californians for crew — no offshore experience necessary.

Race organizers are currently starting to fill the 17 spots per boat for the next edition of the race, which starts in September 2009 and stops in California in April of 2010. By the time the fleet arrives in California the teams will already have crossed the Equator twice, negotiated the South Atlantic, dipping into the fringes of the Southern Ocean with its notoriously unpredictable conditions, and raced across the largest body of water in the world, the North Pacific.
 
Presentations are being held in the Bay Area December 5-9, and if it sounds like something you’d be interested in, you can get more info here.
 
Presentations:
Friday, December 5
7 p.m.     Oakland Yacht Club
7 p.m.     Santa Cruz Yacht Club
Saturday, December 6
2 p.m.     Golden Gate Yacht Club
6 p.m.     Sausalito Yacht Club
Sunday, December 7
2:30 p.m. Berkeley Yacht Club
5 p.m.     OCSC Sailing, Berkeley
Tuesday, December 9
7 p.m.     Club Nautique, Alameda