Virtual Ostar Race Launched To Raise Funds For Cancer Research

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Online blog site blogSTAR and SailOnline.org have teamed up to create a virtual race raising funds for charity to run in parallel with the OSTAR, the Single-handed Transatlantic Race from Plymouth UK to Newport RI, US organised by the Royal Western Yacht Club and starting on May 25th 2009 at 1200.

The public will be able to enter the Virtual OSTAR Race and sail in parallel to the solo skippers. A voluntary £5 registration fee will enter the virtual skipper for a cash prize. The entry fee is split raising £4 for Cancer Research and £1 towards the Virtual Race winner pot. For more details visit our Virtual OSTAR page.

Virtual Yacht races are increasing in popularity and during the Vendee Globe over 300,000 people signed up for the Virtual Vendee. This time, through the partnership between blogSTAR and SailOnline.org the proceeds of the Virtual OSTAR will be directed to an eminently worthwhile and deserving cause raising funds for The Institute of Cancer Research.

The ICR, from humble beginnings 100 years ago as a small laboratory within what would become the Royal Marsden Hospital, with whom it still works in partnership, the Institute of Cancer Research is now one of the top cancer research organisations in the world and the most prolific in Europe.

The ICR achieves all this on just a quarter, on average, of the budget of similar research organisations. It is one of the world’s most cost effective cancer research organisations with more than 95p in every £1 going directly into research.

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