Clipper 11-12 - Gold Coast Australia continues winning streak

2:06 AM Sun 30 Oct 2011 GMT

'Race three winners Gold Coast Australia. Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race' Bruce Sutherland/onEdition

Gold Coast Australia has continued its winning streak, recording a fourth consecutive victory in the first four stages of the Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race. The team finished Race 4 of the 40,000-mile circumnavigation, the world's longest ocean race, at 0704 local time this morning (2304UTC Saturday), under clear blue skies, racing in towards the finish line off the Geraldton shore at more than 11 knots. The ecstatic skipper, Richard Hewson, 31, from Hobart, Tasmania, said, 'It's fantastic to be home - I love Western Australia, it's like a second home and it's fantastic to be back here.' ...

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