At least the Single Outboards took off some place...

The race is in stages (including a night stage) and a total of 1000 kms. The sea in that part of the World is rough to VERY ROUGH! That little red boat (a Falcon 700RSR) came 1st in F2 and in the open class too. The reason I recon is because of the very competent pilot that was racing it. The Yellow boat (Ballistic 750) with the 2in 200VMaxes came second and had some damage on deck too. Both good hulls but the red Falcon (which has a hull based on a Phantom 21) is faster.

F2 CATEGORY
The begining of the Race (one of the stages)

...and some photos from one of the sircuits. This how the sea is normaly there all the time.

If you are interested to see the course layout and some details about the races have a look at this link
TRANSAGULHAS CHALLENGE COURSE LAYOUT

I bet they can run tight in the turns. When they hit they would just bounce off each other with little or no damage...

Very cool class!

Thant's another way of looking @ it Sharkey

Since you find those photos intersting, here is another small sample that I've meda from the same race but different stages. Hope you like them too