Club Marine Series - Port Phillip gale blasts fleet - photos



3:22 AM Mon 21 Feb 2011 GMT
'Shogun climbs a nasty wave off Sandringham - Club Marine Series' Alex McKinnon Click Here to view large photo
Club Marine Series - The Forty knot gale that lashed Port Phillip on Saturday, decimated the small Club Marine Series fleet brave enough to venture out and also washed a man over board off the fifty footer leading the Division Zero race. Rob Hanna?s TP 52 Shogun (RYCV) which was leading in heat one by almost a mile, was scorching down wind under spinnaker in white knuckle conditions doing twenty four knots when near disaster struck! With out warning, a rouge wave across the deck washed their main sheet hand Ben Morrison-Jack out under the safety rails and overboard. Rob ...


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