Rolex Sydney Hobart - Derwent River up to its old tricks



9:58 PM Tue 28 Dec 2010 GMT
'ICHI BAN, Sail n: AUS 3, Owner: Matt Allen, State: NSW, Division: IRC, Design: Jones 70' &copy Rolex/Carlo Borlenghi Click Here to view large photo
The Derwent River played its favourite game with tired Rolex Sydney Hobart ocean racers last night. While Wild Oats XI sliced up the river in majestic style at 8:30 mid-evening to take provisional line honours, second placed Investec Loyal barely scraped across the line three and a half hours later after an agonising two knot crawl in virtually no breeze over the final 10 miles of a race that has at times turned on brutal 40 plus knot winds. Then the River really shut down. Lahana had hung in there with the race leaders for 610 nautical miles to Tasman ...


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by Jim Gale





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