Audi Victoria Week - Spectacular Bayside start on Saturday

8:09 PM Tue 18 Jan 2011 GMT

'Audi Victoria Week 2010, Melbourne (AUS)

Start of the Passage Race' Andrea Francolini / Audi &copy

This Saturday at 9:30am, a giant sailing fleet, approaching 400 boats, four times bigger than the famous Sydney Hobart fleet will, for the first time ever sail down the Bayside suburbs from St Kilda to Sandringham before heading west to Geelong in the annual Audi Victoria Week sailing regatta. The spectacular mass start in the Melbourne to Geelong yacht race for this enormous and colourful fleet is a historic change for Audi Victoria Week, one of the nation?s oldest sporting events and the largest sailing event in the southern hemisphere. In 1844 the first sailing regatta in Australia took place ...

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