Rex Gorell Prestige Etchells Australian titles Day 3 - Driving rain

2:33 AM Thu 13 Jan 2011 GMT

'Dockside waiting to go racing - 2011 Rex Gorell Prestige Etchells Australia Day 3' Etchells Media Click Here to view large photo

Rex Gorell Prestige Etchells Australian Championships Day 3 ? Driving rain and consequential poor visibility on Corio Bay, Geelong has forced Principal Race officer Greg Sinclair to hold the Etchells fleet ashore so far today. There is one particularly long face, amongst the waiting sailors. Grant Wharington was watching sections of an upriver boardwalk drifting towards the Rivergate Marina on National Television, as it bounced around his super maxi Wild Thing berthed there on the flooding Brisbane River. ?We were lucky? he said,? she has a few holes in her, but its well above the waterline and she is not ...

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