Globe Racer calls Hamilton Island home

11:18 PM Sun 9 May 2010 GMT

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The internationally famed Volvo Globe racing yacht Illbruck V2 which raced as Nokia to smash the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race record has now registered Hamilton Island as her home port. This impressive Volvo 60 originally designed and built to race under the Norwegian battle flag along the edge of The Great Southern Ocean ice-flow and now registered with the Cruising Yacht Club of Hamilton Island will spend a major part of her racing career in the warm tropical Whitsunday Islands. The sleek sloop now owned by Bruce Absolon and renamed Nikon Spirit of The Maid to race in honour of ...

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Globe Racer calls Hamilton Island home

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