The Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron is conducting its annual Around Green Island Marathon on Saturday 17 December 2011 at Manly in Brisbane.

Windsurfers and Kiteboarders are invited to complete in the event.

Download the Notice of Race here:

www.rqys.com.au/wp-content/uploads/11-ROUNDGREENISLAND-NOR.pdf

The courses will be set across the wind to suit slalom sailboards and kitesurfers. It will not be an upwind course.

The Notice of Race indicates the area of Waterloo Bay to be used for the event.

The race will be of marathon length, but will not go around Green Island.

It is anticipated that the course will be a numbers of laps up and back with the total distance to be travelled around 25 nautical miles.

The fastest windsurfers would expect to take 1 hour to complete the course.

To participate, you will need to register at:

www.rqys.com.au/marine-sports-amenity-building-now-operating/

and look for Around Green Island Marathon.