Yachting SYDNEY-HOBART RACE
Victorian Cutter Well In Lead (Rec. 8.20 pan.) SYDNEY, Dec. 27. The giant Victorian cutter Kurrewa TV has now opened up a sixmile -lead in the 680-mile SydneyHobart yacht race. There is now more than 65 miles between the leader and the Singapore yacht. Bintang Kerang, which is trailing the field. The smallest yacht in the race, the 27-footer, Four Winds, radioed earlier today that she was heading inshore after heavy seas opened up a crack in her hull, but the leak is now reported to have been mended below the waterline. Kurrewa’s last reported position was 24 miles off Montague Island, not far north of Cape Howe, which marks the seaward border of New South Wales and Victoria. Last year’s winner, Solo, is lying second, the 45-foot cutter Catriona is now third, and the next yachts are Southern Myth, Janzoon, the race favourite, Anitra, Tahuna, Winston Churchill. Trade Winds, and Me tun g.
The 45-foot sloop Caprice, which was dismasted off Wollongong yesterday, returned to Sydney shortly before midnight last night. She is the first casualty in the race, m which there were 20 starters.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28471, 28 December 1957, Page 14
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