Australian Offshore Challenge Gold Coast to Whitsundays Rally

11:58 AM Wed 11 May 2011 GMT

Planning is well underway for the upcoming Queensland edition of the Australian Offshore Challenge. The Gold Coast to Whitsundays Rally takes power boaters on a 700 nautical mile odyssey through some of the best cruising waters in Australia. The survey team has mapped out an exciting course that navigates a series of day-stages through a huge variety of coastal passages. These include Pacific Ocean swells, bar-ways, island hopping, river estuaries, mainland island stopovers and coral cays of the Great Barrier Reef. You will cram more boating excitement into this one week than most people experience in years of ordinary boating. ...

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