Stunning sailing off Magnetic Island lures back southerners

4:56 AM Tue 10 Aug 2010 GMT

'Mooloolaba’s Brilliant Pearl' David Baines

Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week's warm waters, great competition and north Queensland hospitality has lured back southerners for another year. Four years ago Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) sailors coming back from the two largest sailing events in Queensland, Merdien Marinaa Airlie Beach Race Week and Audi Hamilton Island Race Week decided that sheltered waters around Cleveland Bay and Magnetic Island would be the perfect setting for another Australian winter season regatta. But those two events had between them more than forty years of winter sailing tradition and it was a bold step to try and start yet another North Queensland ...

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