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Hamilton Island Race Week, the Glossary

Hamilton Island Race Week is a keelboat regatta set against the backdrop of the Whitsunday Islands, on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.^[1]

Boat racing

Boat racing is a sport in which boats, or other types of watercraft, race on water.

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Brindabella (yacht)

Brindabella is a maxi yacht.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Hamilton Island (Queensland)

Hamilton Island is an island of the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland, Australia. Hamilton Island Race Week and Hamilton Island (Queensland) are Whitsunday Islands.

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Keelboat

A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht.

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Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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