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EDS Atlantic Challenge Web site launched


Author: Rachel Anning

New Web Site To Bring Challenge Racing From Atlantic Ocean To Your Desktop

The EDS Atlantic Challenge Web site will deliver up-to-the-minute race information to sailing enthusiasts through the World Wide Web.

The EDS Atlantic Challenge Web site, www.edsatlanticchallenge.com, went live today bringing this sailing event - the first race of its kind in the Open 60 Yacht Class - to followers around the world via the Internet.

The EDS Atlantic Challenge will break new ground for the Open 60 Class. By putting crews of five aboard these normally single-handed speed machines, the EDS Atlantic Challenge will provide thrills, high-seas drama and the prospect of shattered speed records.

The Web site will use cutting-edge satellite and Internet technologies to ensure seamless coverage over two months and 8,000 miles of North Atlantic sail racing. Challenge Business, the race organiser, will operate the Web site designed by Bath-based the Real Adventure; and EDS will provide Web hosting services.

Right now the EDS Atlantic Challenge Web site provides race calendars, skippers’ biographies, information about each port, special features, and downloadable photos.

“During active racing, the teams will communicate daily to this site filing team and personal emails, photos and audio reports," says Stephen Pizzo, Challenge Business editorial director for the Web site. “With reporters and production staff stationed in both Southampton and California working rotating shifts, coverage will be continuous. While you sleep, we work.”

The race begins July 3, 2001, in St. Malo and ends in the same French port in late August. Sometimes compared to the Formula One car racing, the EDS Atlantic Challenge will pit a fleet of Open 60s yachts in head-to-head competition. They will sail from St. Malo to Hamburg in Germany on to Portsmouth, across the Atlantic to Baltimore and Boston in the U.S., and then back across the North Atlantic to the finish in St Malo.

The chosen boats are the fastest and most radical monohulls afloat Open 60s, commanded by the world’s best open ocean skippers and co-skippers like Ellen MacArthur (UK), Mike Golding (UK), Brad Van Liew (USA), Roland Jourdain (France), Isabelle Autissier (France), Loic Pochet (France), Nick Moloney (Australia), Guido Broggi (Italy), Patrick Taberly (France), Javier Sanso (Spain), and Josh Hall (UK). Many international sports celebrities will also be part of this unique sailing event.

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