Surfing to the City

4:15 AM Tue 8 Mar 2011 GMT

'Monohulls soon after the start being ked by Vivace - Surf to City Yacht RAce' Peter HAckett

The officials of Queensland Cruising Yacht Club, at Shorncliffe in Brisbane, deserve the prizes for finally running a successful 2011 Surf to City Yacht Race on last Saturday March 5. Fears of collision with flood driven debris (boats, restaurants, pontoons, water tanks, logs, gas cylinders?) sensibly delayed the event from late January until now, so you would think Mother Nature would smile on race director Nigel Statham after all the work he had put in to making this the best ever with nearly 100 nominations. But no, a gale warning due to a compressed weather system forced the cancellation of ...

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