Will Amon Ra Bring the Sun?

5:30 AM Fri 29 Apr 2011 GMT

'Racing under a rainbow Audi Winter Series Race 5' Crosbie Lorimer

Owner Nicholas Jones will be hopinghis yacht Amon Ra lives up to her namesake and brings the sun out on Sunday for the Great Veterans Race, conducted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, marking the commencement of the Audi Winter Series 2011 Amon Ra, the Egyptian sun god and is also the name given to Jones' Farr 1104 that is still in its original 1978 configuration. The boat was campaigned in the 1997 Sydney Hobart where she placed 13th in the PHS Division, sailing under the racename of Globus Food Packaging. Today, Amon Ra is largely sailed inshore. In ...

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