What now for JAMAICA?

You'd have thought that, having travelled 35,000 miles, the good ship JAMAICA would take a well earned rest.

Not a bit of it!

The old girl has got a new lease of live and will shortly renew her love affair with RTW Skipper Simon Bradley.

JAMAICA will be off on another offshore race, the RORC Madeira Race, in which she is expected to be the largest of the 20 yachts competing in the 2,600 nautical mile race from Cowes. The route will take them across the English Channel, past the Channel Islands, along the stunning west coast of France, through the unpredictable and challenging conditions of the Bay of Biscay on towards the island of Madeira off the west coast of Africa. After a short stopover for victualling and crew changes they will race back to Cowes.

Double circumnavigator Simon will skipper the entry, assisted by Clipper Training skippers Jan Ridd and Juan Coezer.

Making his final preparations for the trip Simon sent this exclusive message, via jamaicaclipper.com to the whole crew of the 07/08 race :

"Please can you pass on to the entire crew that I've had very good feedback on the excellent condition of the yacht since coming back from a RTW race from Jan Ridd (Training Skipper whose taken over JAMAICA in my absence), Jay and the Maintenance team and John Farndell (Fleet Manager). It's a compliment to you all on how the yacht was looked after and ultimately left in Liverpool."

Great praise indeed. Simon will be posting regular articles from on board JAMAICA so watch out for news of the RORC Madeira race on this site!