‘Experienced yachtmaster… ah yes, got something for you – 18,000nm, Southampton to San Francisco, via six American continental ports and Cape Horn, paid, starts next summer. Interested?’
Sir Chay Blyth has instructed his Challenge Business to carry out an international search for eight experienced ocean yachtmasters, plus reserves, to skipper the eight 72ft steel cutter-rigged sloops of the New World Challenge fleet. The race starts in Southampton next summer, then heads for Boston, New York, Buenos Aires, via Cape Horn to a Chilean port and San Diego, en route to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
Like the BT Global Challenge, the crews will be inexperienced charterers, described by the Challenge Business as ‘truck-drivers, doctors, accountants, company CEOs, students and housewives. They are ordinary people with extraordinary dreams.’
Their ideal candidate would be:
UK Ocean Yachtmaster Certificate or overseas equivalentTotal commitment to crew safetyOver 30,000 logged sea milesOcean passage as SkipperStrong commercial orientationExceptional team leadership, drive and enthusiasmExcellent interpersonal skillsOffshore racing experienceEnglish Speaking
If you’re up for it and fit the bill, write to:
Sir Chay Blyth CBE BEM, New World Challenge Skipper Application, Challenge Business, S115, South Yard, Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth, PL1 4SG,
or email: tonyhumpreys@challengebusiness-plym.com
Click here for the event website.