Audi Hamilton Island Race Week - The big and the small

12:29 AM Thu 26 Aug 2010 GMT

'Kokomo heads home through Fitzalan Passage - Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010' Crosbie Lorimer Click Here to view large photo

Audi Hamilton Island Race Week certainly is a regatta of contrasts. The largest yacht from the 200 strong fleet is the giant superyacht Kokomo at 58 metres and the smallest the 6.1m SB3 design which began fleet racing yesterday in the three-day SB3 Wild Oats Challenge. The biggest boats need many pairs of hands and tonnes of grunt to operate, with up to eight muscle men from a crew of 20 required to carry the 200 odd kilo sails to the foredeck, while on the smaller boats, the less crew the better given the weight consideration. It's mega budgets versus ...

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