A few boats were lifting a hull…
L’Hamilton Island Race Week takes place in the Whitsunday archipelago, across Airlie Beach in north-eastern Australia. The event, launched in April 1984, managed to bring together nearly a hundred yachts in its first edition. From 1992 onwards, the regatta was put back to August in order to benefit from optimal weather conditions... And this proved to be a successful gamble, as Hamilton Island Race Week brought together 234 boats - including 40 multihulls - and more than 2,000 crew last year! Admittedly, the 2020 edition has had to be cancelled, but our journalist Kevin Green was able to verify last year that the breeze definitely ensured a show - and a few scares!
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Publié le
22/09/2020
Par
Kevin Green
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174
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2020
The 2019 multihull fleet totaled 40 boats and ranged from the MOD70 Beau Geste (ex-Foncia) that I was privileged to race on, to much more modest, locally built, cruising catamarans. Split into two racing and one cruising division, there was competition among most boats but not so much for us in our class with seven racing multihulls. The former MOD70 Foncia, now renamed Beau Geste, reached 33 knots in the sheltered waters off Hamilton Island. Our New Zealand skipper, Gavin Brady, had different objectives than exploiting his machine to 100%: “We’ve brought the trimaran over from New Zealan…
