On the 31st July 2011 a team of 50 amateurs representing Edinburgh Inspiring Capital set sail from Southampton on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
The Clipper Race is tough. It is contested by ten stripped down 68-foot racing yachts, each sponsored by an international city, region or country, and all of them crewed by people like you.
Housewives, taxi drivers, chief executives, lawyers, doctors, carpenters, truck drivers, IT specialists, marketing executives and even members of the clergy have all taken up the Clipper challenge – to race around the world under sail. It is a feat that fewer people have completed than have climbed Mount Everest.
During their year long round the world voyage the team will raise money for the Ocean Youth Trust.
