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THE AUDI Hamilton Island Race Week Mid-Week Weekend

•  August.26.2016
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Layday came early for the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week fleet despite best efforts by the race committee to get some divisions racing out on the Eastern course area, in the Turtle Bay vicinity.


That fleet of cruisers and cruising multihulls waited patiently offshore for close to four hours, filling in time swimming, sunbaking, barbequing and following three humpback whales which obligingly glided close enough for photo opportunities.
“It was a frustrating day, we did what we could,” said principal race officer Denis Thompson. “There wasn’t stable breeze to send the championship boats out, we got away with it yesterday, but didn’t want to risk it today given the forecast. The rest of the fleet was moved around all over the place and even went into a starting sequence, and then the breeze collapsed.

Everyone tried their hardest; Huey didn’t play the game today.”The Australian Yachting Championship fleet never made it off the dock, an early postponement signalling the long islands race from Dent Passage was cancelled. Hours later those crews were officially released to enjoy the afternoon at Hamilton Island. 

Day three’s forecast was always going to be challenging for the race committee with very light winds under 8kts predicted to oscillate between north and east.Despite a brave effort to lay a windward/leeward course for the Eastern fleet, when a light north-easter finally set in, the cow bell was rung on the water early afternoon and all racing was abandoned for the day.

Wednesday’s layday means the record Race Week fleet effectively now has a mid-week weekend breaking up two halves of the annual series that wraps up on Saturday, August 27, 2016.

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Featured a red alarm in Trieste : A dangerous shark in the Adriatic Sea

•  August.18.2016
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Of Trieste beaches featured a red alarm for the shark. Shark spotted a fisherman Alessandro Cral (44) while swimming in the sea. A little later, a close encounter with a shark they had spouses Esposito. - It was almost 13 pm when we saw that the surface of the sea strange ripples. My wife and I then sunning and thank goodness we were in the sea. We first saw a black silhouette very close to the surface, and then the fin that rises and lower back shark. 

He surfaced at a distance of less than twenty meters from the beach, and according to our estimates was a length and a half meters to two meters. 

Spouses Ezio Di Francesco and Nella Esposito, who are on holiday in Trieste. Held high the red flag and shouts to leave their rescuers must have made it clear many customers that they are in danger from the depths. Alarmed by the emergency services and all, from the Port Authority to the Coast Guard, who threw themselves into the search for unwanted guests.

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