The Challenge of a lifetime: The Clipper 09-10 round the world yacht race

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CV5 - Eero Lehtinen

Eero Lehtinen, 45, is from Helsinki, Finland.  “I’m very excited and proud to have been appointed as a skipper,” he says. “Sailing the world’s oceans has been a lifelong passion and leading a novice crew will give me an extra-exciting challenge on top of this.”

Eero, who has been working with Clipper Training at the race’s UK headquarters for several months, preparing the crews for the 35,000-mile challenge ahead, has an excellent ocean racing pedigree. He was a crew member in the 1989 Whitbread Race and skippered one of the entries in the 2004/2005 Global Challenge event. He has crossed the Atlantic nine times and was the helmsman...

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30 June 2009

Chinese crew selected to represent the sailing city of Qingdao in Clipper 09-10
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22 June 2009

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