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Harbor
or Buoy Racing
Harbor or buoy races are just as the name implies. The race takes place
in a harbor or restricted water. The race can take anywhere from a few
minutes to a few hours. A wide variety of sailing craft are used in
Harbor races, including keelboats, catamarans, skiffs, sailboards, just
to name a few. The competition, or regatta, involves multiple races,
where the vessel, which performs the best advances to eventually
becoming the overall winner. The most famous such event is the America's
Cup, competitive yachting's most prestigious prize and one of the most
expensive, costing approximately between $75 to $100 million to compete.
This race is commonly sailed over triangular course marked by a number
of buoys. A committee boat designates a starting' buoy, then several
warning signals are given signally the crews the exact time before the
race starts. The goal of ship and crew is to cross the start line at
full speed exactly as the race starts. The set course normally requires
tacking a windward marker, then bearing onto a downwind leg to a second
gybe marker. The vessel then sails to a second downwind leg and to the
last mark referred to as the downwind mark, where the ship and crew turn
into wind to the finish line.
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