Melbourne to Vanuatu - Legs Eleven - Guess who is going with Gusto?

8:54 AM Mon 17 May 2010 GMT

'AAPT (formerly Grundig-Xena)powering up - Savills SORC 2005' Sail-World.com /AUS &copy

Bingo! It's official. The new Gusto (the old Xena), which is an MBD designed Open 66 (there we go with 'pick up sticks'), is the 11th entrant in the 2010 M2V. Now she certainly does have the legs to skip along and go chase the record, as set by the late Andrew Short, should the weather patterns allow it. Jeremy 'How Many Days to Go to the Start' Walton, who's entrenched with the campaign, said 'I tried to just slip the entry in while you were busy with Melbourne to Apollo Bay, but obviously, not quite sneaky enough.' Thanks Jeremy, ...

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