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No Place to Hide - Hailstorm hurts catamaran racers - the Video

5:07 AM Sat 27 Mar 2010 GMT

'Storm Clouds offshore' Andrea Francolini / Audi &copy

Over the years sailing events have seen lots of storms, in the 2009 A Cat Worlds, as the fleet race ashore, one sailor was struck by lighting, in the boat park.

A week ago, the giant hailstorm hit Perth and out on the water, there was the Australian 2010 Tornado Catamaran Nationals.

Josh Fugill reports ' there was 14 boats out there and we could see a 'storm' coming but no one thought it would be that bad.

There was no real damage to anyone or boats just one ripped mainsail, a lot of people tipped over to hide from it but we were on the last lap with only a little distance to go before the finish so thats why we kept sailing ,we got hit by 50 knots at one stage and the whole boat shook like it was a 'rag doll in a toddlers trashing arm' and then just got blown over sideways with nothing to do but go swimming.

Visability wasn't very good and the water looked like it was boiling, at one stage the water looked like it was iced over there was that much hail on the surface.

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