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Good breezes for Sailing South Race Week

by Peter Campbell on 6 Jan 2003
A fleet of more than 70 yachts will race on Hobart’s Derwent River today as the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s Sailing South Race Week continues in ideal summer sailing weather.

With four final races to sail today and tomorrow, only a handful of points separate the leading boats in each of the five divisions, and results today will have a major bearing on the final outcome of the highly successful regatta.



In the IRC division, the Sydney yacht Ichi Ban, skippered by Matt Allen, holds a six point lead from the local boat, B52, skippered by Hughie Lewis, with the 66-footer Grundig (Sean Langman) a close third.



So far, Ichi Ban has won two races on corrected time while Grundig has taken out the other, as well as fastest time in each of the three races sailed so far.



Only two points separate two Hobart boats, Lock on Wood (Peter Geeves) and Patrick (Brian Furmage) in the PHS Division, with Silver Mist (Bruce Palmer) a close third overall.



The pointscore is even closer in the spectacular Sportsboat Division 1, with only three points between four Hobart rivals - Muir Race, skippered by Matthew Johnston, Another Girl Another Planet (David Shepherd), ABN Amro Morgans (Bruce Calvert) and Shoot the Dog (Richard Fisher).


In Sportsboat Division 2, Alibi II (Rod Williams) leads by two points from Mischief (Adrian West) while in the new Cruiser Class, Ben Latham’s Fat Albert leads from Innovator, skippered by Ian Smith, by just one point.
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