We started in the lake and sailed Anti-clockwise to finish at the south end of the Straights in front of the Yacht club. The rumb line distance is about 17kms but of course everyone sailed considerably further than that. The best official record is 55 mins set by Gary Maskell on his Catarmaran but it is highly likely that windsurfers did it faster during the heyday of the Flatwater Classic in the 1980s. Unfortunately, no records were kept during this period. This years winning time was 65 minutes by a Paper Tiger Cat. The fastest windsurfers this year came in at around 79 mins in a race that saw a solid 30 knots of Easterly wind and 5 foot waves on most of the course.
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