Well-know British sailor injured in world’s longest ocean race

photo via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons license

photo via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons license

On March 9th, the British sailor, Trudi Bubb, 50, from Crawley in Sussex, Britain, was injured when the Unicef team yacht fell off a wave during extreme weather in the Yellow sea, which is located off the coast of Eastern China, during the Clipper Race. Bubb fell while below deck, according to race representatives, and has sustained a fractured arm. It was reported that there were gusting winds of seventy to eighty knots, with extended periods to fifty-five to sixty knots, and big waves. According to yachts and boating.com, Paul Atwood, Unicef relief Skipper, described the conditions in his blog as, “Slamming, driving rain, the steady 50-60 knots breeze peaking at a gust of 92 knots, the air full of horizontal spray, waves filling the cockpit.” Even though, the skippers and crew endured a rough night of sailing, the races will continue as they were previously scheduled. To clarify, the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race, the tenth edition of the biennial global series, is the world’s longest ocean race at more than 40,000 miles, taking 11 months to race between six continents.The race is currently the eighth stage of a 14-race global series, from Da Nang, Vietnam, to Qingdao, China.