On World Ocean Day, Team Spirit of Adelaide are pleased to announce they are the first entrant of the Ocean Globe Race 2023 to commit to raising awareness of ocean conservation, by partnering with Clean Sailors.
The Crew are doing so in the name of Clean Sailors and clean sailing, raising awareness of ocean conservation within our global sailing community. Spirit of Adelaide’s partnership with Clean Sailors will see the boat be painstakingly renovated, victualled, run and maintained with the highest regard paid to the health of our most important ecosystem – our ocean.
S/V Outlaw, a Baltic 55 originally built for the 1985/86 Whitbread Round the World Race, is currently under renovation for the 50th anniversary of the edition next year, namely the Ocean Globe Race. The Spirit of Adelaide crew, which includes Skipper Campbell Mackie, are keen to raise awareness of cleaner sailing and to educate on the opportunities of reusing, upcycling, refitting recycling and renovating their vessel with the environment in mind.
Through their partnership, Clean Sailors and the Spirit of Adelaide crew are aiming to demonstrate a successful clean sailing case study, without impacting the performance of the yacht.
Clean Sailors Founder, Holly Manvell comments:
“The Ocean Globe Race represents one of the most adventurous team journeys there is on our planet, traversing the 27,000 miles of our great global waters. As sailors, our waters are our passion and playground, and we are super excited to be joining our friends, the Spirit of Adelaide crew, to promote ocean health and to showcase opportunities for cleaner sailing.”
S/V Outlaw Skipper, Campbell Mackie comments:
“The oceans of the world are our special place and we care about their health. Our partnership with Clean Sailors will teach us how to make better ocean-safe choices. We are proud to be the first OGR team to partner with Clean Sailors and to use the opportunity to raise awareness of, and demonstrate, viable solutions.”
About Clean Sailors
Clean Sailors is a not-for-profit, mobilising the global sailing community in conservation of our oceans. Launched in July 2020, Clean Sailors’ mission is to set a new standard of sailing within our global sailing community: clean sailing, by raising awareness of ocean conservation opportunities within our sport, our passion, our pastime.
The crew’s aim is to make an ocean ambassador of each and every sailor around the world, and Clean Sailor’s already counts three-time world champion and four-time Paralympian Hannah Stodel, as well as CJ Perez, the youngest ever sailor to join the SailGP league, as ambassadors to their cause.
In 2021, Clean Sailors launched Cleaner Marina with industry partners including boatfolk, MDL Marinas, savvy navvy and Ecoworks Marine, to encourage better, cleaner standards across marinas, ports and harbours, globally.
In January 2022, Clean Sailors announced the launch of the Clean Sailors Youth Racing Team with three international Champion sailors; CJ Perez (18) the youngest sailor ever to join the SailGP league and the first latina, Lukas Hesse (22), German Champion 2020 and Swiss sailor Jann Schüpbach (20). 2022 will see the exceptional young champions compete together in the Persico 69F, at the very highest standard of foiling and as ambassadors for cleaner, healthier seas and a cleaner sailing industry.
About the Ocean Globe Race 2023
The Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is a fully crewed retro race in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. It marks the 50th anniversary of the original event.
It’s an eight-month adventure around the world for ordinary sailors on normal yachts. Racing ocean-going GRP production yachts designed before 1988, there will be no computers, no satellites, no GPS, and no high-tech materials. Sextants, team spirit and raw determination alone in the great traditions of ocean racing are allowed on this truly human endeavour. These will be real heroes pushing each other to the limit and beyond – in a real race!
About Spirit of Adelaide and S/V Outlaw
The team are skippered by two-time Clipper sailor, Campbell Mackie and with renowned Clipper Race skipper, Mike Miller, as First Mate. Together they will be leading the crew in sailing yacht, ‘Outlaw’, around the 27-000 round-the-world Ocean Globe Race in 2023. Outlaw is a Baltic 55 sailing yacht originally built for the 1985/86 Whitbread Race. She competed under the name ‘Equity and Law’. Built in Finland back in 1984 to a Douglas Peterson design and Lloyds of London specification, Outlaw is in a remarkable condition considering her age and the crew feel confident in her ability to carry them safely around the world.