Top Of The Gulf Regatta 2018
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hat a great opportunity - competition sailing to help hone skills, meld teams and test vessels – and just three months before the Asian Games happening in Jakarta this August. That’s precisely what the 2018 Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina provided. Held off Jomtien Pattaya from 27th April to 1st May 2018, the regatta is the largest multi-class sailing event of its kind in Asia with competitors
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coming from as far afield as Australia, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UK, to name just a few of the more than 25 participating countries. Because the 2018 Top of the Gulf Regatta represented such an ideal lead up to this year’s Asian Games, many countries sent their national teams and Olympic sailors to compete, including Thailand who had their full national sailing squad racing in preparation for the regional championships. Ocean Marina Yacht Club is the
regatta's permanent home and as South East Asia's largest marina facility provides a convenient and safe base for a regatta of this size and diversity. Up to 12 classes of boats participated this year including keelboats, multihulls, One-Design Platus competing for the Platu Coronation Cup, a series of dinghy classes, Optimists competing in the Thailand Optimist National Championships, and for the second consecutive year the IOM Class of radio controlled boats.
