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Yacht racing

Sailboat racing can be broadly broken up into two types - offshore racing and harbour (or 'round the cans') racing.

Offshore racing is for large keelboats or multihulls and generally involves a fleet of yachts or large multihulls racing from one city to another. Some of the most famous offshore races are the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race[?], the Fastnet race[?] and the America's Cup.

Harbour racing is usually enjoyed by sailors of keelboats, dinghys, catamarans, skiffs, sailboards... Most racing of this type is on triangular courses of about one nautical mile on each side, and consists of several laps. A race usually takes around one hundred minutes. Olympic sailing is of this type.



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