Heineken Cape to Rio veteran Aussie sailor on eight circumnavigation

9:17 PM Mon 17 Jan 2011 GMT

'Heineken Cape to Rio Race 2011' Heineken Cape to Rio

Heineken Cape to Rio Australian sailor, Jon Sanders, has a good few hundred thousand sea miles behind him, and is veritable old sea-dog. He has been sailing his 39-foot Sparkman and Stephens design Pierre Banou IV for 22 years now across the oceans of the world, and on other yachts, including the previous Pierre Banou, a 31-footer, he did much the same, including in the 1976 Cape to Rio Race. Now he is back in Cape Town, where it all began, and when the start gun goes at noon on Saturday, he will be off on another Cape to Rio ...

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by Alex Petersen

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