Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week day 3 - Postcard Sailing

10:21 AM Sun 15 Aug 2010 GMT

'Spinnakers on day 3 - Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week' Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week Click Here to view large photo

Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week 2010 day 3, yet another glorious Whitsunday day and the breeze came in, well above expectations. The fleet was held ashore this morning until a light afternoon north easterly breeze appeared. Passage racing was scheduled for the Performance Racing, IRC Cruising, Cruising Non-Spinnaker, Super 30, Multi-hulls, Sports Boats and One Design fleets. From the late start the wind gradually built and stabilised across the Bay. PRO Tony Denham had sensibly moved the start line to the north of Bluff Point. Progressively the divisions were gunned away from around 1.00pm in six to seven knots ...

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by Rob Kothe