Clipper Ventures plc, the marine events group chaired by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, is pleased to announce the launch of its new website today, Tuesday 7 September 2004. Designed and developed by Navaho Technologies, the site www.clipper-ventures.com contains information covering all the core activities of the AIM-listed company.
The website boasts an innovative design concept whilst delivering all the information required by company investors, race crews, their families and supporters, as well as potential city and corporate sponsors. The four
key areas of the website focus on Clipper Ventures Plc, the Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race, the 5-Oceans single handed race and Zapcat Racing Ltd.
The design and development of the new Clipper Ventures website has been undertaken by Navaho Technologies, a Southampton-based software development company specialising in server technology.
During the ten-month Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race, the website will provide fleet position updates in real time, leg results and commentary about the races from the skippers and crews. Following the appointment of the race’s ten professional skippers and the allocation of their crews, the site will also provide in-depth profiles on the teams and their city sponsors.
The site will be used to communicate with the entire Clipper community and, as in Clipper’s previous round the world races, supporters will have the chance to opt for regular newsletters once registered using a designated
email address.
A newly created internet-based education programme will also act as an online resource; making Clipper 05-06 information available to schoolchildren around the globe. The programme will focus on the different aspects of the natural world that the Clipper fleet will encounter on its 35,000-mile circumnavigation, including weather systems and energy, wildlife, geography, nutrition and culture – all with the aim of helping international schoolchildren to understand each other’s lives and discover more about their environment and the Oceans which divide them.
5-Oceans, world yachting’s most prestigious Grand Prix series, is the second race in the Clipper Ventures stable. The next race starts in the Autumn of 2006 and a downloadable English version of the 5-Oceans Notice of Race is available on the race’s dedicated section of the Clipper website.
Comprehensive information on Zapcat Racing, the World’s largest one-design powerboat racing championship which became part of Clipper Ventures earlier this year, is also available at www.clipper-ventures.com. Visitors to the site can subscribe to a regular Zapcat mailing list and be kept up-to-date with the news of the National Championships circuit.
For more information contact
Loretta Spridgeon
Clipper 05-06 Media & PR Manager
CLIPPER VENTURES PLC
Tel: +44 (0) 23 8023 7088
Fax: +44 (0) 23 8023 7081
Mobile: +44 (0) 7773 818586
Email: lspridgeon@clipper-ventures.com
Website: www.clipper-ventures.com