Hamilton Island Race Week - Australia's South Pacific Cup team named

8:57 AM Thu 19 Aug 2010 GMT

'Wired - Audi Hamilton Island Race Week' Andrea Francolini / Audi &copy

With more than 200 yachts scheduled to be competing at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week, starting this Saturday, series organisers have now nominated the two Australian yachts which will defend the South Pacific Cup team trophy against the New Zealand challengers. In the IRC Grand Prix division they have chosen the highly competitive Melbourne-based TP 52, Shogun (Rob Hanna), to go up against New Zealand's Georgia (Jim Farmer). Shogun recently won the NSW IRC Offshore championship while the new Georgia is a development of the Audi Med Cup winning TP52, Emirates Team New Zealand. Australia's second team yacht will be ...

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