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Harry Heijst

WINSOME at Royal Prince Albert Yacht Club in Pittwater

Today, Saturday 13th of December, was a good day in respect of further preparation of Winsome for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race 2008. We had a slow start today and arrived at the Yacht Club only at 11am. Sun shining, outside temperature 30-32 degrees C. Wouter and myself started taking away the WB Cuben Fibre […]

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Arrival at Pittwater Sydney NSW

After having covered 536Nm from Brisbane we arrived at the Royal Prince Albert Yacht Club in Pittwater, a bay some 15 Nm North of Sydney NSW. The last 24 hours were not too nice considering that the wind all of sudden changed from northerly to southerly and the seas /waves became unpredictable. At one time […]

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At Tasman Sea

Winds changed and are now coming from the West. Blowing 25 gusting 30 knots. We are still under full Main and Genoa III. TWD 347 boatspeed 7,5 to 8 knots. SOG nearly the same since also the tide looks like coming from the shore at 1,3 knots. Our present position Wednesday 10 December at 0715 […]

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Post by | December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS

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