Mirs Bay race and return race

Dapeng Fortress in Dapeng town, Shenzhen district. More info here.

These two races are part of Hebe Haven's typhoon series.  They're on August 6th (up) and 7th (back).  Interested please mail me peter@forsythe.hk

For update on racing sked see Xena site.  Note that we are not doing the China Coast or Vietnam, though we're still committed to doing King's Cup and also the Boracay in February.

Some random notes of interest for Mirs Bay:

In Chinese it's Da Peng Wan (大鵬灣), which literally means "big beautiful bird bay" (but it's not a "plover" as in the Cove, nor a "starling" as in the Inlet).  Whereas Mirs appears to mean nothing: though I believe it relates to a colonial by the name of Mir, and was early on apostrophe'd as in "Mir's" bay.  Look up Mirs now and you get Michigan Information & Research Service, Manx Industrial Relations Service, Melbourne International Research Scholarship and -- my favourite -- the Metrology Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.


Mirs Bay's Dapeng peninsula is home to Dapeng village and the Dapeng fort, piccie above.  It was a fortress used against pirates during the Ming dynasty.


Update, 17 July: Rick's away o/s and others tied up in boats doing the whole Typhoon series, so we'll skip this as race, though we may still cruise up.  Stay in touch, if interested.  P.