The route of the longest yacht race of the Far East “Peter The Great Gulf Cup-2009” runs through Nakhodka. The spectators will have a chance to see the race on September 7. Nakhodka city district press-service reported it to RIA PrimaMedia.
The championship is to start in Vladivostok on September 3, and it will consist of 5 races, each 22-210 nautical miles long. The yachtsmen from Pimorye, Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Zheleznogorsk, Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur will take part in regatta.
One of the race stages will be held in Vostok gulf opposite the “Antares” sports camp. The caravan of some hundreds of yachts will arrive in Vostok gulf about 9am. The citizens will see the yacht races from city observatories and beaches.