According to information from the organizers of the Clipper Race around the world sailing race in the 2023-2024 season, experiencing more than 40,000 nautical miles, 6 ocean crossings, 14 races taking place in 11 months, has ended with the title The championship belonged to the sailing team "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" of Quang Ninh.
Team "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" is only 1 point more than the 2nd ranked racing team.
The 14th race - the final race of the race is called "Homecoming" - "Returning home", departing from the port of Oban, on the west coast of Scotland and finishing at the port of Portsmouth, on the south coast. of England - the home port from which the racing teams departed 11 months ago.
Before stage 14 took place, the racing team "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" was the temporary leading team. But there are only 3 points separating "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" and Perseverance ranked 2nd. Zhuhai ranked 3rd, also only 4 points behind Perseverance. That created an extremely tense and exciting final race.
More than half the distance of stage 14, "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" ranked 8th and Perseverance ranked 3rd, a difference of 5 places, meaning that the final victory was very close to Perseverance. However, in the sprint phase, "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" with the efforts and determination of the entire team rose to 5th place, thereby narrowing the gap in position on the stage 14 rankings to 2 levels left, just enough to ensure final victory.
In its first participation in the 2019-2020 season, "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" also surpassed many other famous racing teams to win 3rd place overall.
In race 7 of stage 5 in February 2024, 11 racing boat teams arrived in Ha Long Bay and stayed here for about 2 weeks.
Quang Ninh's "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" sailing team has a total of 64 sailors, but each race only has about 20 sailors on the boat; The rest alternate at each stage. The captain is Josh Stickland, British, 35 years old.
The fact that Ha Long Bay is one of the stops of the race and the "Ha Long Bay - Viet Nam" team of Quang Ninh won the championship in the 2023-2024 season is a great opportunity to introduce more about the Heritage the world's nature of Ha Long Bay and the image and tourism brand of Quang Ninh and Vietnam to the world; This is an opportunity for Quang Ninh to continue promoting and attracting investment, especially service - tourism projects...
