Six Senses Phuket Raceweek - 23-27 July 2008, Thailand



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PRESS RELEASE: Phuket, Thailand: 05 July 2008

ENTRIES HOLD FIRM FOR RACEWEEK 2008

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Twenty days before the racing starts, Six Senses Phuket Raceweek participant numbers are holding firm. Now in its fifth year, the regatta will be held from 23 to 27 July at Evason Phuket & Six Senses Spa on the Phuket Island’s southeast coast, with four days of intense yacht racing and five nights of equally intense partying.

“What always happens at this stage, is that a few of the early registrations fall by the wayside as unforeseen commitments take their toll,” said Grenville Fordham, MD of regatta organisers IMAGE asia. “But the great news is that recent entries – as well as those the grapevine tells us are coming – more than compensate."

Fordham said he still expects a record 40-plus boats on the start line – more than 40 percent increase on the 2007 event – but noted that he had been forced to abandon plans to reintroduce a Sports Boat class after a two-year absence. “These are some of the most thrilling boats to see racing but there just aren’t enough of them around. When we lost one of the Thailand’s most active sports boat owners to clashing business obligations, we had no choice but to include the remaining boats in one of the other racing classes,” he said.

The regatta will be raced over 7 classes, including IRC Racing Class 1, IRC Racing Class 2, Club Class, Racing Multihull Class, Ocean Multihulls Class, Firefly 850 One-design Catamaran Class and Classic Class.

On the social side of the regatta – to some participants and certainly their families the ‘main event’ – the organisers have booked Bangkok-based all-girl Thai band ‘Unicorn’ to play for two nights, including the Gala Prizegiving and Closing party on Sunday 27 July. Continuing its (almost) one-regatta-one-venue concept, four of the five parties will be held at Evason Phuket and Six Senses Spa’s Into the Beach sea-terrace.

The exception, the renowned Raimon Land party, will again take participants across the island to the spectacular Ratri Jazztaurant at Kata Beach on Saturday 26 July. And, again following tradition, the ‘unofficial’ bonus party, veteran yachtsman Horst Lakits’ pig-roast will again be staged at his Big A Resort. Click here to see full regatta programme

<<< Unicorn, Thailand's No.1 all-girl band are playing at Raceweek

Six Senses Phuket Raceweek 2008 enjoys formal backing from the Sports Authority of Thailand, the Yacht Racing Association of Thailand and the Tourism Authority of Thailand and is run under the auspices of the Ao Chalong Yacht Club.

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