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Yet again, the dreaded Coronavirus threatens to disrupt offshore racing in Australia.
It is becoming increasingly doubtful whether the Sydney-Gold Coast Race, an annual 384nm sprint North from Sydney to a finishing line off Main Beach at Southport (above), will start as scheduled on July 31.
A recent sudden spike of COVID cases in and around Sydney has prompted the New South Wales state government to impose tough restrictions on travel and social gatherings. These include a limit of two people for any exercise activity and a prohibition on traveling further than 10 kilometers from home for anything other than work or essential purposes.
A further complication is that the finishing line, and the host club for arriving competitors, are at Southport on the Gold Coast, just a few miles North of the state border between New South Wales and Queensland. The state of Queensland will probably close its border to NSW as part of a strict virus-containment policy…
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