Melbourne to King Island - First four chowing down right now

6:47 AM Sat 6 Mar 2010 GMT

'Cape Wickham - I see the light and I feel for those in pre-GPS days - Melbourne to King Island (M2KI)' John Curnow/ORCV

Magic Carpet, Jazz Player and Chikara Outlaw have all finished within about ten minutes of each other, just after 1600hrs. Ninety Seven was around half an hour after that and Geomatic Joker was yet another half hour behind them.

Well done to the Two-Handed team of Dean Coates and Steve Twentyman from Magic Carpet, for their efforts. The boat looks good with it's new paint job, too.

For some of the other crews it has not all been sunnies, tans and smiles. At least three boats, Caledonia, The Secretary and Yoko watched as the others went over the horizon, while they sat and then went backwards off Naracoopa on King Island's East coast.

New paint and a great First Place for the Two-Handed effort from Dean Coates and Steve Twentyman. - Melbourne to King Island - John Curnow Click Here to view large photo

Paul Pascoe who is onboard Caledonia, told me they were doing 1.2 knots with just over a knot of current going the other way. Never mind - the breeze will hopefully return to you soon.

At aro

Ninety Seven came home in fourth place. - Melbourne to King Island - John Curnow Click Here to view large photo

und 1530hrs the wind did go to the Southwest and made a true 12-15knots before settling back to the familiar 10 knots.

It's probably a little under that now and as night closes in, well?... The sea rose a little with it too, but not a lot.

Interestingly, the same happened at Cape Otway, at the very same time. Melbourne, however, took buckets of water and had some amazingly dark skies, we understand.

Just got to love Australia and its weather, eh.

The ORCV’s Sally Williams doesn’t stop for the steak sandwich. - Melbourne to King Island - John Curnow Click Here to view large photo

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