Newport Bermuda fleet - light weather start for 183 boat fleet

3:07 AM Sat 19 Jun 2010 GMT

'Start - Newport to Bermuda Race start 2010' Leighton O'Connor &copy

47th Bermuda Race - The start near the mouth of Narragansett Bay off Newport Rhode Island saw 183 sailing boats ranging from 33-footers, Killua sailed by Jim Binch of New Cannan, Connecticut, and Sailor Bandito with Chris Palabrica of Carmel, Indiana at the helm, to Alex Jackson's 100-foot Speedboat out of Piedmont, California.The leaders are expected to complete the 635 mile race late Sunday or Monday. Each of the 16 classes had an individual start at 10-minute intervals. Hundreds of spectator boats and thousands more land-side spectators lined the East Passage as the boats caught a good ride on the ...

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