9:00 PM Wed 30 Dec 2009 GMT
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'Jazz Player'
John Curnow/ORCV
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Heemskirk Consolidated Melbourne to Hobart West Coaster and East Coaster updates:
'JazzPlayer' crossed the line at 20:49:09 tonight in dying breeze. Lord help the rest, as there is a bunch of Olympic Rings (zero, zero, zero...) from the weather station at South Bruny Island. Door closed for the Westcoasters for now.
The crew were very anxious to get there. I bet they are stoked, now knowing what has happened to the others, who for the last 3 days have been within 2 miles or so of them...
There is a group of Eastcoasters that arrived at the Iron Pot virtually simultaneously, as it went dark just before.
Around the same time, the breeze also went to bed. INSX, Under Capricorn, No Fear, Merlion, The Secretary, Godzilla, Mirrabooka and Icefire from the Westcoaster fleet are sitting and revising ETAs regularly. Long night ahead it would seem and all will dig deep in the mental reserves and tiredness barrel now. Speed humps that had affected some more than others could well be paying a visit to others soon and so the win some, loose some merry-go-round continues. Hope the water and biscuits still exist, so that the crews can keep going.
by John Curnow
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