40 boats to contest New Zealand's toughest yacht race



9:45 AM Mon 13 Dec 2010 GMT
'40 boats to contest our country’s toughest yacht race - North Island 2011' SSANZ Click Here to view large photo
Forty boats and eighty sailors will race around the North Island of New Zealand in the Short Handed Sailing Association?s Round North Island Two Handed Race starting on 19 February 2011. The 1,244 nautical mile marathon starts in Auckland and circles the island in an anticlockwise direction, with 24 hour stopover in Mangonui and 48 hour stopovers in Wellington and Napier. 'This is the most demanding race there is to do,' says SSANZ Chairman, Cameron Thorpe, competing aboard Gale Force. 'For racing sailors it?s comparable to climbing Mt Cook (NZ's highest mountain , or finishing an Ironman ? just getting ...


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by Zoe Hawkins





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