The yacht Ghost, one of the New Zealand entries in the TransTasman Yacht Race which is at present in progress. A cable message last night from Sydney stated that the Australian cutter Peer Gynt had radioed that she was then 445 miles east of Sydney. Since leaving Sydney on Saturday she had averaged over five and a-half knots. The weather was light and cloudy with a south south-east breeze.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26996, 3 February 1949, Page 5
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69The yacht Ghost, one of the New Zealand entries in the Trans-Tasman Yacht Race which is at present in progress. A cable message last night from Sydney stated that the Australian cutter Peer Gynt had radioed that she was then 445 miles east of Sydney. Since leaving Sydney on Saturday she had averaged over five and a-half knots. The weather was light and cloudy with a south south-east breeze. Otago Daily Times, Issue 26996, 3 February 1949, Page 5
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