CV10

Jim Dobie, a dual citizen of the UK and Australia, skippered Uniquely Singapore in the Clipper 2009-10 Race and finished sixth. This time around he will be at the helm of the former Derry-Londonderry which finished eighth in the 2011-12 edition under current Clipper Race deputy director Mark Light. The yacht also raced in the previous three editions variously as California (10^th), Nova Scotia (ninth) and Cardiff (eighth).

Currently Senior Training Skipper for Clipper Ventures in the UK, Dobie will take up the same role in Australia when the new training and events base opens. He is known around the Sydney waterfront having lived here when he ran sailing schools. Plenty of offshore experience, including three Rolex Sydney Hobarts and the Rolex Fastnet Race, should hold him in good stead.

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (74), the legendary British yachtsman who became the first person to circumnavigate the world solo, non-stop, and founder/chairman of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, will navigate in his second Hobart aboard either this boat or CV5. For the first time ever, he will race against his Clipper Race fleet of 12 brand new Clipper 70 yachts and their amateur crews, who are competing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart as part of their 16 leg round the world race.

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