Battle Stations at the Ottawa Skiff and Cat Grand Prix



1:00 AM Tue 15 Jun 2010 GMT
'Battle Stations at the Ottawa Skiff and catamaran Grand Prix' Luka Bartulovic
For the last seven years, the Nepean Sailing Club has hosted the Ottawa Skiff and Cat Grand Prix on the tea coloured water of Lac Deschenes. The sailing area itself is already a bit weird and wonderful (with rapids and shoals down one end). The wind is equally varied: either light, puffy and shifty, or doomsday nuclear. Last year's edition was relatively tame, but the year before saw the gear testing weather, with carbon bits busting left and right off the high performance boats, and a boat going for an unintended white-water ride down the rapids while the sailor looked ...


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