| Scallop pies first stop for Lahana crew |
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Photos By Kurt Arrigo
and Daniel Forster.
Additional photos and story edited from press release by Peter Andrews. |
| 18:00 AEDT December 29, 2009. |
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| The Queensland super maxi Lahana, owned by Peter Millard and John Honan arrived in Hobart this afternoon, docking just before 5.00pm after finishing the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. They were the eighth yacht to cross the line, since the start of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 628 nautical mile race. |
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Peter Millard and John Honan's Lahana passing
the Organ Pipes, during the Sydney Hobart
Yacht Race 2009.
Photo © Rolex / Kurt Arrigo.
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One of the first things principal helmsman Bob Fraser said on stepping ashore was: "We were supposed to have lunch at the Shipwright’s Arms today, but I had to ring and change it to dinner instead."
Fraser next asked his wife Sue where the scallop pies were. Like the bulk of the fleet, Lahana’s crew thought they would be in Hobart long before they were and accordingly packed enough food for two days for the 27 guys on board. It wasn’t enough however and they ran out, reduced to slim pickings in the last 12 hours. |
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Peter Millard and John Honan's 98ft maxi Lahana,
outside the heads after the start of the Sydney Hobart
Yacht Race 2009.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage.
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With Hobart’s famous scallop pies safely aboard, along with the obligatory few drinks, Fraser, a veteran of 27 Hobart races said it was "an easy but frustrating race."
"It was awful," he said "looking at the tracker and watching Ludde (Ingvall on YuuZoo) go from 10 nautical miles behind us to 20 in front and beat us over the line by just over three hours. They ought to get rid of that tracker," Fraser said laughing. |
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Ludde Ingvall's YuuZoo at the heads after the
start of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2009.
Photo © Peter Andrews, Outimage.
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Prior to the race start, the Bureau of Meteorology’s Rob Webb told the crews participating in the race that mixed weather conditions would beset the fleet for four days.
"It was very stop-start," Fraser said. "Coming into Bass Strait we fell into a big hole. Some of the guys in front of us hardened up and went west. We were sort of in between and were pretty much forced to go east. We got through that pretty well," he added. |
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Peter Millard and John Honan's 98ft maxi Lahana, during the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2009.
Photo © Rolex / Daniel Forster.
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"In the last bit near Freycinet (around 111 nautical miles from the finish line in Hobart), we had a jibtop and staysail up and the breeze dropped out, so we put a drifter up and flopped over to port and within 20 minutes we had a really good breeze. The breeze dropped off then and we made a mistake and went west and ran out of breeze. It was hard to have a strategy because of the very mixed weather," said the former sailmaker from Sydney.
For further information about the 2009 Sydney Hobart, go to the official race website at: www.rolexsydneyhobart.com |
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| Outimage and Rolex © 2009 |
