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First three teams begin Panama Canal transit
16 May 2008
Glasgow: Scotland with style Clipper, Uniquely Singapore and New York have begun their transit of the Panama Canal.
The pilots boarded the yachts at 0830 local time this morning (1330 GMT) and the yachts passed under the impressive Bridge of the Americas before rafting up at the entrance to the locks.
Richard Austen, HM Ambassador to Panama, is travelling with Glasgow: Scotland with style Clipper. It is the first time His Excellency has travelled through the Canal on a yacht and said, “I am very much looking forward to it.”
Last night the Ambassador presented the pennants at the crew prizegiving.
Click here to see the yachts entering the lock
Friends, family and supporters of the Clipper fleet will be able to watch the yachts pass through the locks at both ends of the canal by logging onto the Panama Canal webcams: click here to view them exit the Miraflores Locks
We got such a buzz when we went around the buoy so close you could touch it. Even though we had been up most of the night before and we were knackered and freezing we were flying!
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