Summer's on the way and the Festival of Sails begin - Mackay

8:01 PM Sun 3 Oct 2010 GMT

'Mackay family day to open the season - photo by Lee Constable' .

As the weather warms and the sailing season gets going again around Australia, many harbours, bays and yacht clubs are celebrating the return of summer with a Festival of Sail. In Mackay, in Queensland, they do it with a Sail and Paddle Family Fun Day put on by the Mackay Yacht Club, which means that the small beach at the front of the Mackay Yacht Club was a sea of keen young sailors-to-be yesterday. Mackay Yacht Club vice-commodore Bob Critchley said the family fun day - which lets families try sailing - fired up the celebrations for the week-long festivities. ...

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by Cait Bester, Daily Mercury/Sail-World

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