Rolex Sydney Hobart; All Quieter on the Eastern Front?



1:15 PM Mon 27 Dec 2010 GMT
'Retirements came thick and fast this afternoon - Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2010' Crosbie Lorimer Click Here to view large photo
A dockside strawpoll with a few of the race's most experienced navigators and tacticians before the Boxing Day start suggested that those who ground out the worst of the two southerly fronts in the first 36 hours of the race would face a very different challenge on Day 3. Sure enough the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday shows a complicated scenario off Tasmania's east coast with a high moving much lighter winds around the compass from west through south and into the north. The forecast shows the area of lighter winds (5-15 knots) spreading very quickly and extensively east off ...


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by Crosbie Lorimer





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