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Sail-World.com : 100th entry for Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010
100th entry for Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010
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'Great racing and spectacular scenery: two of the attributes that make Audi Hamilton Island Race Week'
Ciaran Handy
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Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010 has received its 100th entry.
A yacht owned by two-time former world champion surf ski paddler – and now avid offshore sailor – Warren Buchan, and his fiancé, Kristy Edwards, has become the 100th entry for the 2010 event.
Warren and Kristy, who race the yacht, Colortile, out of Cronulla, on Sydney’s southern outskirts, are very clear as to why they are returning to Race Week after a two year absence: ‘It was the best fun we’ve ever had racing,’ Warren said, ‘so we just had to go back for more this year.’
The registration of the 100th yacht compares very favourably with the growth of the entry list for last year, and as a result indications are that a fleet of near 200 can be expected for Race Week 2010, which will be staged from August 20 to 28.
Warren Buchan’s first experience with sailing, as a seven-year-old, was enough to turn him away from the sport and towards what would become a stellar career in the surf: he and a young mate set a spinnaker on a Manly Junior and charged down Gunnamatta Bay in a howling north-easterly wind. However, when they got to the end of the bay they realised they didn’t know how to sail upwind, so they took the dinghy to the shore and walked it home through the shallows – for more than a mile.
When he joined Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club his passion soon became surf ski racing, and apart from winning two world championships and national titles he claimed victory in the world’s longest ski race – a 150nm test from Forster to Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach – by just 35 seconds!
More than 20 years after the Manly Junior experience Warren returned to sailing, and as soon as he did he was hooked: ‘I love sailing it because I love the ocean and catching waves – and our current boat surfs superbly.’
Warren and Kristy were swamped with applications for positions in the crew when it became common knowledge that Colortile was going to compete at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010 – so they decided to take all 14 of them!
‘We’re not complaining,’ said Warren. ‘Race Week is all about camaraderie, having fun, and enjoying the stunning scenery that comes with racing around all the beautiful islands. It’s the regatta everyone has to do at least once, and because some of my mates hadn’t done one in 20 years of sailing we just had to take them with us this time.’
Colortile will be entered in all the feeder races that lead to Audi Hamilton Island Race Week, starting with the 25th edition of the 384 nautical mile Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race on July 31.
Warren has one tip for anyone doing their first Race Week: ‘Pace yourself! Apart from the great sailing, the social agenda is exceptional, but you have to make sure you go the distance. The worst thing you can do is be burnt out by Thursday, then not able to enjoy everything the entire week has to offer.’
Audi Hamilton Island Race Week is Australia’s largest and most awarded keelboat regatta.
Race Week’s naming rights sponsor, Audi, is the fastest growing German premium carmaker – and the largest supporter of yachting – in Australia.
 | The courses – sailing and golf – are all part of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010 - Ciaran Handy |
27th edition of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week information: www.hamiltonislandraceweek.com.au
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2:31 AM Tue 22 Jun 2010 GMT
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