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A rough night for the L2H fleet but Jazz Player in tune

A rough night for the L2H fleet but Jazz Player in tune
by Jane Austin 28 Dec 2020 05:30 UTC
27-31 December 2020
Jazz Player at the start of the TasPorts Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race on the Tamar River, 2020 © Doug Steel
The TasPorts Launceston to Hobart fleet took a battering overnight with four boats now retired from the race.
After a slow start, the fleet encountered the forecast west to south westerly winds averaging 25 to 35 knots for Banks Strait and adjacent areas.
At 20:24, Jeff Cordell, skipper of B&G Advantage and a stalwart of the race, retired after his Mumm 36 was dismasted. Sailing underpowered, with a storm jib and a reef in the main, Cordell said the mast broke in two stages and they lost the lot. There was no incident, we had done our rig checks and were underpowered, running dead flat at the time, but something just gave way, with the mast shearing off at the deck. It took us 20 minutes to cut the rig ....

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Alive breaks race record for Launceston to Hobart

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Alive sailing to the finish line to take line honours in the TasPorts Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race Photo credit Steve Shield.
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Alive breaks race record for Launceston to Hobart
29 December 2020
Tasmanian entrant
Alive, owned by Phil Turner, has set a new race record in the TasPorts Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race.
Alive, skippered by Duncan Hine and sailing with a mostly Tasmanian crew, finished the race at 19:30:52 on Monday 28 December 2020, with a corrected time of 1 day, 8 hours, 2 minutes and 16 seconds, beating the race record set by
Crotty Legal & Dental (Gary Smith / Geoff White) in 2008 by 1 hour, 31 minutes and 42 seconds. ....

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