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Getaway-Sailing.com - CMC Markets Syd Hob Race Report |
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| Getaway-Sailng.com All Action Racing South |
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Shortly after two of the race favourites, Maximus and ABN AMRO had retired with broken masts, Getaway Sailing's Volvo 60 reported an exciting night onboard on the race South.
Peter Goldsworthy reported, "Our tactics at the start of the race were to head offshore and pick up some extra horsepower courtesy of the Eastern Australia current."
"Our weather router warned that we would also encounter larger waves as a result of this strategy, but we felt that the performance gains would outweigh the rather unpleasant and bumpy ride."
"That bumpy ride turned out to be more than we bargained for as the boat encountered a rogue wave about 40nm off the coast of Nowra. The boat dropped off this unexpected monster with a thud, the impact causing us to lose all our instrumentation and navigation systems."
The crew had to work though the night to make running repairs and regained the use of the majority of the instruments but had to resort to paper charts and hand held compass to navigate to the finish line in Hobart.
Where most yachts would have retired the crew had to be praised for their efforts and congratulations go to the whole team. |
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