SLAM 12ft Skiff Interdominion cockatoo carnage captured by cats

8:15 AM Wed 12 Jan 2011 GMT
SLAM 12ft Skiff Interdominion was a day of carnage as a big gusty east-nor-easter picked off one boat after another in Race 7 at Hunters Hill today - and not even the top starters were immune - startled river cat passengers saw all off Cockatoo Island as the out-of-control skiffs barrelled downwind under kite. Some survived, some did not. It was a day of 'no guts, no glory ? and when the going got tough ? the tough kept going. It was day that belonged to 2009 Interdominion champion and reigning national champion, Garde, crewed by Brett Hobson and Alex ...

Click here for full story.

by Di Pearson