by Zoe Hawkins
Forecasters are predicting wind and rain for the Hauraki Gulf racecourse where around 60 of our country’s best race yachts will line up tomorrow for three days of intensive racing.
“That’s sailing,” says BMW Auckland Regatta spokesperson Ross Markwick about Friday’s forecast, which is expected to clear in time for the remaining races to be held over the weekend.
“Right now we have a weather system passing over on Friday that will bring rain and moderate to heavy winds,” says Markwick. “It should move off overnight and Saturday and Sunday will bring ideal conditions for racing.”
Notable entrants in the BMW Auckland Regatta are eight of the top ten fastest yachts in the country, including the impressive canting keel yachts, V5, Pussy Galore and Wired, and a selection of multihulls: New Zealand Olympic rep Dan Slater’s Line 7 Marine, Jon Bilger’s PredictWind.com, and Attitude, Dirty Deeds and Epsom Salts.
The race course will centre off Eastern Beach in the Tamaki Strait. Two windward leeward and a harbour course will be sailed on Friday and Sunday, and four windward leeward courses will be sailed on Saturday.
The BMW Auckland Regatta is organised by the Auckland Regatta Trust, a joint initiative between the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and the Bucklands Beach Yacht Club, in order to foster and promote amateur sailing in the region.
The event is sponsored by BMW, KPMG, Auckland City Council and Manukau City Council, and is further supported by North Sails, BSP Design, Mount Gay Rum, Whiting Power Systems - Yanmar Marine, OKI and Fullers.
Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron
Bucklands Beach Yacht Club
Thursday 19 February 2009
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