Offshore racers in countdown mode

10:14 AM Thu 10 Jun 2010 GMT

'Steve Curtis (left) and Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani - will they prove too good for the Aussies? - offshore racers in count down mode' Nigel Quilter &copy Click Here to view large photo

It's only two weeks (June 26/27) to round two of the 2010 Offshore Superboat Championships scheduled for Mackay, North Queensland and race crews and their workshop teams are busy preparing boats and engines. At the Gold Coast headquarters of the Maritimo Offshore Race team, it's not only Maritimo boats being readied for the racing; the 'Qatar 96' boat that will be crewed by Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani (driver) and Steve Curtis, MBE (throttleman) is being fine-tuned, while Tony Lowe's Melbourne-based catamaran 'Trojan Steel' is having new engines installed. The Mackay race is the first of two on North Queensland ...

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Offshore racers in countdown mode

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