White suits
and a strong ebb tide ahead of a dream run first night
Shots
from the Boxing Day start mush pit
Page
5.
Pictorial By
Peter Andrews
December
26, 2007.
Mike
Slade's City Index Leopard.
071226-D2X5664.
Roger
Sturgeon's Transpac 65 Rosebud from the United
States with Grant Warrington's Skandia ahead
in the background.
071226-D2X5676.
Michael
Hiatt's Cookson 50 Living Doll.
071226-D2X5701.
Another Cookson 50 belonging to Ray Roberts, Quantum
Racing.
071226-D2X5703.
Bruce
Taylor's IRC 40 Chutzpah from Victoria.
071226-D2X5723.
Bruce
Taylor's Chutzpah with its red spinnaker and David
Beak's Beneteau First 44.7 Mr Beak's
Ribs.
071226-D2X5732.
The first
ever entry from Mexico, Marcos Rodriguez's Beneteau 40.7
Iataia, representing the Acapulco Yacht Club. Iataia sailed
across the Pacific to compete in this years Rolex Sydney
Hobart.
071226-D2X5766.
The Rum Consortium's Davidson 42 Phillip's Foote Witchdoctor
setting a record for entry to the most Hobart races,
a total of 26.