2014 Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race - Entire fleet expected in Hobart
by Peter Campbell on 28 Dec 2014
The Fork in the Road berthing at the Elizabeth Street Pier in Hobart….just two blocks from the CBD. Peter Campbell
2014 Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race - The entire fleet of 24 boats in the National Pies Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race should be tied up at Elizabeth Street Pier by lunchtime today – in time for a feed of the sponsor’s famous pies.
The 285 nautical mile race has turned out to be one of the fastest overall on record with all but half a dozen or fewer boats expected to cross the finish line off Battery Point within two days of the start from Beauty Point last Saturday.
Line honours winner, Gary Smith’s Bakewell-White 45, The Fork in the Road, finished at 10:18:35pm yesterday, slashing about three and a half hours off the race record. Second boat to finish, Peter and Catherine Cretan’s newly acquired Marten 49, Tilt, also finished within the previous record crossing the line soon after midnight.
They were followed home in the early hours of today by The Protagonist (Stuart Denney), Infinity (Greg Prescott) and first northern yacht, David Allan’s Obsession.
At 7:30am today only seven boats had to finish, and all were in the River Derwent, with Young One approaching the finish line and Take five bringing up the tailend of the fleet, off White Rock.
With such a compact fleet, the overall handicap winner, decided on AMS ratings, should be one of the smaller boats in the fleet with the Derwent Sailing Squadron expected to announce provisional results late this morning.
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