9:47 AM Sun 26 Dec 2010 GMT
Rolex Sydney Hobart 2010. After four hours of vintage downwind racing in flat seas and a 12 knot north-easterly breeze, the frontrunners in the Rolex Sydney Hobart have hunkered down for the long grind to windward that will probably get worse before it gets better. At around 5.30pm this afternoon Adrienne Cahalan, navigator of Wild Oats XI, reported that the yacht was off Kiama, beating into a 20 knot south-easterly, which Cahalan anticipated would strengthen to 30-35 knots from the south-west by the time the supermaxi left the New South Wales coast and launched into Bass Strait tomorrow morning. Wild
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by Jim Gale
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