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For more information contact:
Neil Yule
Sales & Marketing Director, Fläkt Woods Ltd UK
Phone: +44 1206 222 593
neil.yule@flaktwoods.com
Anders Mårtensson
Group Communications Manager, Fläkt Woods Group
Phone: +46 36 193 330
anders.martensson@flaktwoods.com
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Fläkt Woods has entered its own team for this year’s Tall Ships' Race in the Baltic Sea. The crew will be made up of young people from all parts of the organisation, with participants from Finland, Sweden and the UK.
This is the first time Fläkt Woods has entered the event. The Group is sponsoring a 15-metre ketch, Ocean Scout, which sails out of Ipswich and was especially designed and built by Oyster Marine.
First held in 1956, the annual competition takes place in a different part of the world each year. Every four years or so, it comes to the Baltic.
In June the first race starts from Århus in Denmark, from where the ships will sail to Kotka in Finland, between this and the second leg, which sails from Stockholm to Szczecin in Poland, there is a corporate leg. Fläkt Woods will be sailing in the corporate leg, from Kotka in Finland to Stockholm across the Baltic Sea. The team will be away for a total of 10 days, spending approximately 5 days at sea.
Ocean Scout
Faye Young, from Fläkt Woods in Colchester, is one of eight crew members and foresees both personal and corporate benefits from their forthcoming experience: “This contest will enable us to build relationships with other young colleagues from our European bases, share ideas with each other and bond together as an international team – as well as fly the flag for Fläkt Woods”.
Ocean Scout will participate in all the races, sailing for Denmark towards the end of June – visiting Holland, Germany and the Danish islands en route – before racing and returning through Germany and Amsterdam to Ipswich.
There is an added bonus for the crew this year: the largest traditional sailing ship in the world, the 117.5-metre Sedov from Russia, will be visiting Kotka during the second leg of the race.
--- Press release 2007-06-01
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