CYCA Summer Offshore Season opens with Bird Island Yacht Race



3:42 AM Thu 23 Sep 2010 GMT
'Stephen Ainsworth’s RP63 Loki, one of the front runners for line honours glory in the CYCA’s Bird Island Race' Andrea Francolini &copy
Some of the best known grand prix racers in the country will be out to settle old scores when the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's eighty-five nautical mile Bird Island Race starts off Point Piper on Sydney Harbour at 7.00pm on Friday 24 September. Loki, the recently crowned Audi IRC Australian champion and holder of the Cabbage Tree Island and Audi Sydney Offshore Newcastle Yacht Race records, will be the targeted yacht when 28 yachts set off in the race. Stephen Ainsworth knows his Reichel/Pugh 63 and its crew will have to have all the right pegs in all the ...


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