Melbourne to Vanuatu - Scarlet Runner to make Southport

6:40 AM Fri 9 Jul 2010 GMT

'Scarlet Runner on Sunday, as she lined up to exit Port Phillip Heads - Melbourne to Vanuatu 2010' John Curnow

Melbourne to Vanuatu update at 1730hrs: Its high tide at Southport and that bar of theirs... It is also when Scarlet Runner is going to be escorted in by the Qld Water Police and with Customs and Immigration there to clear them back into Australia. We all very much look forward to that. Reports in the area indicate that there is an unpleasant seaway around, no doubt caused by the very same low pressure system that had been providing all the horsepower that had rocketed Scarlet Runner along so well and to be so far in front of the Melbourne ...

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by John Curnow

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