SOS Ocean Racing - 2189nm done 4631nm to go

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7:40 PM Sun 16 May 2010 GMT

'(Ian Thompson's SOS Ocean Racing track, heading heading for the middle stages of his solo circumnavigation of Australia' Save Our Seas - Ocean Racing

Save Our Seas Ocean racing skipper Ian Thomson has continued to log a fast average speed in his attempt to smash the solo circumnavigation of Australia record. The Whitsunday Sailing Club member skippering the impressively fast Hugh Welbourne designed 12m yacht has stuck to his promise of taking the 68 day 8 hour 30 minute record set by David Beard 20 years ago into a new time zone. During his first 12 days Thompson set a cracking pace with the water ballasted yacht logging an hourly average speed of 8.98 knots on her anti clockwise voyage. He completed a third ...

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