Kenneth Thelen raced in the Whitbread Round the World Race back in 1989.He's one of the big characters from the old days of round the world racing. He's as passionate about offshore racing as ever, but says it's pretty much dead in his native Finland. However, the Nord Stream Race has a chance of changing all that.
Listen to Kenneth here:
Kenneth is passionate about getting young sailors into offshore racing and reckons the Nord Stream Race is the start of a potential pathway...
Nord Stream racing in windy Helsinki
It’s not the first time the Nord Stream Race has taken place, but this is being billed as the Nord Stream Race “Reloaded”. Firstly, the event will be using a fleet of five identical ClubSwan 50s, a brand new Juan Kouyoumdjian design where the hulls, the fit-out, the rigs and even the sails are all one-design. Olympic champion and America's Cup winner Jochen Schümann predicts a tough introduction to offshore sailing for the open-water rookies in the fleet....
