Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010 - Clear Air wins again

3:50 AM Sat 28 Aug 2010 GMT

'Loki crew - Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010' Crosbie Lorimer Click Here to view large photo

Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010. The Grand Prix handicap fleet winners at Australian most prestigious regatta, Hamilton Island Race Week tends to be the very well raced boat that happens to have a size/speed gap that gives it the cleanest air. A million years ago in 1998, Hamilton Island Grand Prix winner Sword of Orion, a Reichel Pugh 44, was the biggest of the small boats. With the 40-43 footers gassing each other and with the 49-50 footers up ahead, she did not have to fight for clear air. Fast forward to 2010 and Loki, Stephen Ainsworth's conventionally ballasted ...

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by Rob Kothe & the Sail-World Team