当地时间2000年12月31日,在西班牙的巴塞罗那港,来自世界各地的6艘帆船扬帆起航,开始了跨世纪的帆船环球赛(THERACE)航程。 这项历史悠久的帆船赛沿袭了6个赛段的赛制。比赛的起点是巴塞罗那,选手按照传统的环球航行方向,由西向东,进行比赛。各赛段的终点分别是:第一赛段,直布罗陀海峡;第二赛段,南非的好望角;第三赛段,澳大利亚的卢恩角;第四赛段,新西兰的库克海峡;第五赛段,合恩角;第六赛段即整个比赛的终点是位于地中海的法国马赛港,总赛程达4万多英里,比赛预计在2001年3月4日结束。 参赛的6艘帆船来自3个国家。代表美国参赛的帆船是“顽皮驿站”号,由美国人斯蒂夫·福塞特指挥;代表英国参赛的帆船是“勒加多”号, Local time On December 31, 2000, at the Port of Barcelona in Spain, six sailboats from all over the world began their sails and began the cross-century THERACE voyage. This historic sailing regatta follows six stages. The starting point for the competition is Barcelona, ​​where players race from west to east following the traditional global sailing directions. The end of each stage are: the first stage, the Strait of Gibraltar; the second stage, South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope; the third stage, Australia, Loon; fourth stage, New Zealand’s Cook Strait; fifth game And Horn. In the sixth stage, the entire race ends in over 40,000 miles on the Mediterranean in the French port of Marseille. The race is expected to end on March 4, 2001. Six sailing boats from three countries. The sailing boat that represents the United States is a “naughty inn” run by the American Steve Furthite; the sailing boat that represents the United Kingdom is the “Le Cadomer”