An easy way to enter Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010

10:11 AM Fri 23 Jul 2010 GMT

'Cruising division yachts sail away from Hamilton Island and towards the Whitsunday Passage during Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2009.' Ciaran Handy

It's still not too late to get a crew of family and friends together and compete at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010. No matter where you are in the world you can still be part of what is Australia's biggest and best keelboat regatta simply by chartering a yacht. Charter yacht operators based amid Queensland's tropical Whitsunday Islands - where Hamilton Island stands as the centrepiece - have yachts available for Race Week, which is scheduled for August 20-28. And, if you think you won't have a chance of winning just ask Victorian yachtsman Bruce Griffiths, who raced the ...

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