2011 Around Australia Race - Bob Williams talks about the race

1:19 AM Wed 8 Jul 2009 GMT
Bob Williams talks about the first race Around Australia in 1988 and the plan and progress towards the 2011 race.

2011 Around Australia Ocean Race - the 2011 Race event is for monohull and multihull yachts (Category 1). The event format is designed to allow yachts from all around Australia, and overseas, to compete.

In a nutshell:

There are 10 start and finish ports including Fremantle, Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney, Gold Coast, in the Whitsunday's and on the far north coast of Queensland, Darwin, and Broome. Yachts choose the port they start/finish from. Yachts from Fremantle start first in July 2011 racing anticlockwise. Yachts from the next port start with the yachts that have arrived from the preceding port. Eventually all yachts will be racing together. Every yacht visits every port. Every yacht covers the same distance (+/- 7,100 nm). The event is completed by early November. Crew changes at stop-over ports are permissible.

The Race event timing coincides with the Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, Airlie Beach Race Week, and Hamilton Island Race Week. Our event plan allows for alignment with the timing of these events so that participants in our event may take in these very popular events following a stop-over in Sydney and during a stop-over in Queensland. We have included a 'Fremantle Race Week' regatta to take place during the 10 day Fremantle stop-over.

Listen to Bob's update on the 2011 event, by clicking on the audio player below.

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Bob Williams provides an update - Click play button twice to listen