Korea Cup International Yacht Race - hello from Hoopo



7:21 AM Thu 20 May 2010 GMT
'Admiral Yee comes to the Korea Cup 2010' Guy Nowell &copy Click Here to view large photo
Hoopo is a small fishing village on the east coast of South Korea. It's not somewhere you immediately think of where yacht racing is concerned, but today is the first day of the third Korea Cup International Yacht Race, and this piscatorial backwater is covered in flags and bunting, and there is an unmistakable buzz in the air Or maybe a hum... The KCIYR comes in two parts: - an Inshore Series here in Hoopo, four days of short course inshore cans racing for a fleet of beach cats (F-16, 17, 18s; Nacras; Hobies0 some Magnum 21 trimarans, and some ...


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by Guy Nowell, Sail-World Asia




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