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Record entry on track for this year's Rolex Middle Sea Race

70 entries and counting... The Rolex Middle Sea Race is on the cusp of another record fleet for the sixth consecutive event. Last year, 68 competitors set off on the 607 nautical mile race from Malta around Sicily, Pantelleria and Lampedusa, and back to Malta. This year the race starts on 20 October 2007, as usual, from its famous line between 18th century Fort Manoel and the 16th century bastions of Valletta.

With entries open until Sunday, 14 October the Royal Malta Yacht Club remains hopeful that it will attract another one or two yachts and this time breach the barrier of 70. In 2007, 70 yachts filed entries, but two dropped out just before the start. Chairman of the Race Committee, Godwin Zammit, is being positive: "we know of a couple of Maltese boats that could still file entries and we often find that there are last-minute entries from Italian yachts, like the one over the weekend from Obelix and, then, Intrigue, this morning. We received an unexpected entry from the United Kingdom yesterday, so even further a field is possible. ...more


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