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12:41 PM Thu 3 Mar 2011 GMT

'Budget Marine Match Racing Cup at the Heineken Regatta 2011' Heineken Regatta

Match-racing, at its best, is Mano a Mano ? hand-to-hand combat. Match-racing here, in the Budget Marine Match-Racing Cup, run-up to the Heineken Regatta, takes that sort of intensity up a few notches. Some of the top racers in the world. No Wednesday night yacht club race, this. Races are on six Jeanneau Sunfast 20?s. Eight skippers. Each skipper races every other skipper. Each skipper races each of the six boats. The course is straightforward: start, windward leg, downwind, upwind, downwind, set in the waters of Simpson Bay Lagoon ? surrounded by emerald mountains and multi-million-dollar boats. Both make for ...

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