18ft Skiff International Regatta - Thrills aplenty on the Bay

10:12 PM Sun 15 Aug 2010 GMT

'Howie Hamlin and crew Paul Allen front and Matt Noble center didn’t flip all week one key to their win - 18ft Skiff International Regatta' Rich Roberts &copy

18ft Skiff International Regatta is scheduled to start on Sunday. The powers ruling the next America's Cup want to make sailing a spectator sport, they need look no farther than their own front yard for a primo demo with the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta starting Sunday. The fast and frighteningly unstable three-person boats winging it in reliably brisk breeze will make that point in the natural amphitheater fronting the host St. Francis Yacht Club and its next door neighbor, the Golden Gate Yacht Club. The latter now owns the sport's top prize through the efforts of its representative, ...

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