Examples of use of yacht racing
1. With a large lizard tattooed on his muscular forearm and a penchant for extreme sports such as rock–climbing, yacht–racing and skin diving, before his marriage to O‘Hare he was regularly described as Australia‘s most eligible bachelor.
2. Barely 24 hours into the voyage that marked the 67–year–old‘s return to solo round–the–world yacht racing, gusts of more than 80mph and waves as high as a house had wreaked havoc in the Bay of Biscay, leaving three of the six yachts which left northern Spain so badly damaged they had to limp back to port.