Ahoy there! Cape Town sailors help lead Clipper race on the high seas

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The duo have clocked up almost 650,000 nautical miles of experience between them.

Immelman said: “I love offshore racing and being a skipper for the Clipper Race is one of the highlights of my career so far.”

As well as the round the world races, Leggatt has completed 42 transatlantic crossings in the past 31 years and competed in World Championships, three Round Ireland and Britain races, the Fastnet, three South Atlantics, the Transpac, two Normandy Channel races, and won the Royal Yacht Squadron 200th Anniversary Regatta in 2015.

For the past three years, he has been working as a yachtmaster instructor in Cape Town, with his role including skippering training runs from Cape Town to either Rio de Janeiro or Madagascar and back with ten RYA Yachtsmaster Ocean students on board. There are currently eight crew members from South Africa signed up for the Clipper 2019-20 Race, with a total of 44 different nationalities represented.

 

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