Melbourne to King Island - 'You do it because you love it'



9:34 PM Sat 12 Mar 2011 GMT
'Just moments before the finish line. - Melbourne to King Island' John Curnow
That was exactly how Rob Date put it to me when his RP52, Scarlet Runner, had crossed and taken Line Honours in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria?s 2011 Melbourne to King Island race. Scarlet Runner had barrelled out of Port Phillip Heads and into Bass Strait doing 16 knots. A mile later they were doing seven and a short while after that, barely four, on their way to seeing a whole a bunch of zeros for some time, before really getting underway again at around 0600hrs. They had done just 14 nautical miles in the first five hours of ...


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by John Curnow





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