Clipper Round The World Yacht Race Finish

After an epic 40,000 miles of ocean racing, the world’s largest fleet of matched ocean racing yachts and 250 crew members will return to St Katharine Docks - central London’s only marina – to a hero’s welcome.

Emotions will be running high as tens of thousands of Londoners, crews’ friends, family and race fans will line the banks of the River Thames to welcome home the Clipper 2013-14 Race crew back after completing the world’s longest ocean race.

A formal procession will take place between 10am and 5pm, with the twelve 70-foot state-of-the-art racing yachts parading up the River Thames to Tower Bridge, locking into St Katharine Docks.
Entry is free entry to the popular Race Village at St Katharine Docks, with a big screen, live music, DJs, drummers, dancers and international cuisine, all of which is sure to get the capital into the spirit of sailing.

SCHEDULE:
SATURDAY 12 JULY 2014, 10AM – 5PM
LONDON, ST KATHARINE DOCKS
FREE FAMILY EVENT

About the race
The 2013-14 edition of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race left London on 1 September 2013, racing to Rio De Janerio, Cape Town, Albany, Sydney, Hobart (including the famous Rolex Sydney Hobart Race), Brisbane, Singapore, Qingdao, San Francisco, Panama, Jamaica, New York, Derry-Londonderry, Den Helder, before returning to London.

Set up by legendary yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the Clipper Race is designed to provide everyone - regardless of sailing experience - the chance to race across oceans and taste the exhilaration of completing a circumnavigation. Since its inception in 1995, the Clipper Race has turned over 3,500 novices into ocean racers. The race is split into eight legs and 16 races, with crew opting to do one leg, several or the full circumnavigation. The youngest crew member is 18 years old while the oldest is 73.

This is the only race of its kind where lorry drivers, teachers, nurses, lawyers and more, join together to take on the world’s toughest sailing conditions.