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Cyclops Marine 2023 November - LEADERBOARD

Sydney Hobart – Double Down and More.

by John Curnow, Editor, Sail-World AUS 28 Dec 2021 01:17 UTC
Crux (TH) © Crosbie Lorimer/Bow Caddy Media

Clearly sailors all over the world got into the two-handed aspect of the Sydney to Hobart, for Double and Everything certainly has had high readership.

Given all of that, short-handed expert, Lee Condell of Performance Boating, was kind enough to give us an update this morning. “What a shame that Maverick made it into the Two-Handed lead, only to hit something solid that sheared the starboard rudder off and cracked the deck!” Unfortunately, seven of the two-handed fleet have had to retire, leaving 10 craft still racing.

“Jan ‘Cloggs’ Scholten and Julian ‘Jules’ Hall on Disko Trooper will be very hard to beat now, as they were the first to crack off, so they have a big jump under IRC. They deserve it, as they have worked hard to be fully prepared for this race, and Jan will have also have put a lot of time and effort into an efficient sail plan and inventory, so hats off to them. They are only 14 miles behind the Two-Handed Line Honours leader, the Class 40, Sidewinder (racing only under PHS).”

“The other guys that are having a fantastic race are Carlos Aydos and Peter Grayson on the S&S 34 Crux. So if there ends up being a decent amount of reaching they could come to the fore.” Currently they are in fourth place for Line Honours.

“Also great to see the mixed teams going well, with Wendy Tuck and Colin Geeves on the First 34.7 Speedwell (6th place), and Jen Linkova and Jason Cummings on the Radford 12.2 Flat White (7th place).

Stay safe, thanks for tuning into Sail-World.com, and all the best for 2022.

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