BIOGRAD, Sept 3 (Hina) - Hundreds of people bid farewell to the Hrvatska Cigra sailboat on Saturday when it put out from the Croatian port of Biograd for a 40,000 nautical mile trip around the world. This is the second world trip
Hrvatska Cigra, a member of the Croatian Oceanic Boating Club, is making under the guidance of Croatia's most renowned yachtsman, Mladen Sutej. The first time, the sailboat toured the world across the ice of the Arctic and Antarctica. This second voyage will take it across the most beautiful parts of the Atlantic, across the Panama canal into the Pacific, to the atolls of Polynesia and the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and back into the Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea. On its journey, Hrvatska Cigra, whose name in English reads Croatian Tern, will exchange 160 yachtsmen with professional skippers. It is expected to return to Kornati in Croatia on 17 March 2002.(hina) ha
BIOGRAD, Sept 3 (Hina) - Hundreds of people bid farewell to the
Hrvatska Cigra sailboat on Saturday when it put out from the
Croatian port of Biograd for a 40,000 nautical mile trip around the
world.
This is the second world trip Hrvatska Cigra, a member of the
Croatian Oceanic Boating Club, is making under the guidance of
Croatia's most renowned yachtsman, Mladen Sutej.
The first time, the sailboat toured the world across the ice of the
Arctic and Antarctica. This second voyage will take it across the
most beautiful parts of the Atlantic, across the Panama canal into
the Pacific, to the atolls of Polynesia and the Indian Ocean, the
Red Sea, and back into the Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea.
On its journey, Hrvatska Cigra, whose name in English reads
Croatian Tern, will exchange 160 yachtsmen with professional
skippers.
It is expected to return to Kornati in Croatia on 17 March 2002.
(hina) ha