Audi Hamilton Island Race Week day 3 - Wind in the afternoon

7:59 AM Mon 23 Aug 2010 GMT

'Whale - Audi Hamilton Island Race Week day 3' Andrea Francolini &copy

Audi Hamilton Island Race Week day 3. This afternoon the Whitsundays were a sailor's paradise with sunshine and enough breeze to get around the track in reasonable time on day three of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. This morning conditions resembled the movie Dead Calm, minus the psycho thriller element. More than three hours after their scheduled start and on a completely different course area the IRC Grand Prix, IRC Passage 1 and Performance 1 fleets got away on altered courses. Traditionally today is the long Club Marine race before the layday, but given the forecast the race committee late ...

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by Lisa Ratcliff