Newport Bermuda Race - 184 boat fleet for Friday start

4:11 AM Fri 18 Jun 2010 GMT

'’Lora Ann’, an Express 37 skippered by Richard Du Moulin, at the start of the 2008 Newport Bermuda Race.
PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Forster/Talbot Wilson/PPL' PPL Photo Agency

The 47th Newport Bermuda Race starts Friday off Newport R.I. A good wind is predicted for the early stages of the race. The 184-boat international fleet is the third largest in the race's 104-year history. Nearly 2,000 sailors will compete. The course runs 635 miles from the mouth of Narragansett Bay into the Atlantic Ocean and across the Gulf Stream to the finish line off St. David's Head, Bermuda. The race should take two to three days for the largest boats, over 80 feet long, and four to six days for the smallest ones of 33 to 40 feet. 'We ...

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by John Rousmaniere