JV with Victorian Yachties

Posted by James Mitchell 
 
The Rotary Club of Brighton North is supporting the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) to provide humanitarian support for Vanuatu.

The ORCV is conducting a yacht race from Melbourne to Vanuatu over the winter months and the yachties want to provide some assistance to a school in Port Vila.

We have introduced the ORCV to Bill Dagg and the DIK Centre and are helping them to collect and package appropriate goods to go in a container.

The container and freight to Vanuatu are being funded through donations from the yachting community.

The ORCV and Rotary networks have enabled us to put a Project together to help others in need.
Details about the Race & Vanuatu

The 2010 Melbourne to Vanuatu (M2V) Yacht Race will be conducted on the waters of Port Phillip, Bass Strait and the Southern Pacific Ocean. The race is organised and conducted by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) Inc in conjunction with the Vanuatu Cruising Yacht Club.




Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands with a unique blend of intact tribal communities, resorts, beaches and geography ranging from accessible volcanoes to pristine underwater environments.

It is located some 1,750 km east of Australia, 500 km north-east of New Caledonia, west of Fiji and south of the Solomon Islands.

It was named New Hebrides during its colonial period. Many of the islands of Vanuatu have been inhabited for thousands of years, the oldest archaeological evidence found dating from 2000 BC.

In 1605, the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernández de Quirós became the first European to reach the islands, believing it to be part of Terra Australis. Europeans began settling the islands in the late 18th century, after British explorer James Cook visited the islands on his second voyage and gave them the name New Hebrides.

In 1887, the islands began to be administered by a French-British naval commission. In 1906, the French and British agreed to an Anglo-French Condominium on the New Hebrides.

In the 1960s, the ni-Vanuatu people started to press for self-governance and later independence. Full sovereignty was finally granted by both European nations on 30th July, 1980.
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