Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Victoria Harbour “an ideal stop” for Ocean Race

Volvo boats in harbour racing. January 2017

Volvo boats in the 2017-18 race at the old Kai Tak airport
Thanks to this government’s incompetence there’s no place for
boats in the redevelopments. Way to go Carrie!…

Veteran sailor Karl Kwok is pushing for Hong Kong to be a stopover in the 2012-22 Ocean Race (ex the Volvo Ocean race). [here]
Karl at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht ClubP
That’s his trimaran Beau Geste 

It would sure be a better choice than Qingdao or Sanya which I thought at the time were chosen by folks who naively thought there’d be commercial gains.