Sunday, 5 July 2009

The Race has begun

5th July 2009, 18:50 BST, England
The Pegasus is now somewhere out in the Baltic, heading towards St Petersburg, and out of contact for probably most of the week.

I left at 7am local time for the airport. While waiting for my flight, there were two pieces on the local TV news about the event. They showed the ships leaving port for the Parade of Sail, focussing on the large 3 masters.

The link below shows a birds eye view of the main basin. Pegasus is in the top left corner. The white boat is Sorlandet from Norway and the green one is Alexander von Humbolt from Germany.
http://zagle.miasto.gdynia.pl/en/component/content/article/105 The Pegasus is in the middle of the second raft down from the top. You can recognise her by the green boom cover.

This is the site for St Petersburg: http://www.tsr2009.ru/en/
This is the site for Turku: http://www.tallshipsrace.fi/en/
If anyone finds any other links with information about the race then please can you put a reference here as a comment?

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