Search is on for Spice Girls

The hunt is on for an all girls crew to take part in the Spice Race © Louay Habib

The hunt is on for an all girls crew to take part in the Spice Race. The selected girls team will race 'Concise' against other Class 40's and IRC yachts in the inaugural event which starts on the 15th November 2008 from the Royal Yacht Squadron line and covers a distance of 4321 nautical miles to Grenada. WI.

Tony Lawson, CEO of the Spice race and owner of the Class 40 Concise, announced. "I want a British, all girl crew, to race Concise, which I will fund and I am inviting candidates to apply for the selection process. There is also interest from a Dutch girls team and hopefully a French girls team can be put together to form a 'race within a race."

Lawson is very keen to help young sailors gain experience, and break into the offshore circuit. In the TJV, his boat was raced by Dan Gohl and Tom Gall, who were the youngest team in the race. 'Concise', is an Akilaria 40 designed my Mark Lombard. Launched in 2007, Concise competed in the 2007 Trans Jacques Vabre, coming 2nd in the prologue, and was the first Class 40 to finish the Round the Island this year. Akilaria 40's are popular boats, having won the Class 40 Worlds 2007, and was the first production boat to finish the Artemis Transat and TJV. There are now over 20 Akilarias racing, all over the world.

Any girls who are interested in the opportunity should: explain why they would like to take part in the race, detail what they would bring to the team and send their sailing CV to www.spicerace.com