Rolex Sydney Hobart - Fleet regroups after miserable night

4:46 AM Tue 28 Dec 2010 GMT

'LAHANA, Sail n: 10081, Owner: Peter Millard, State: NSW, Division: IRC, Design: Bakewell - White 30m - Rolex Sydney Hobart 2010' &copy Rolex/Carlo Borlenghi Click Here to view large photo

Rolex Sydney Hobart afternoon day 3 update. Pain and pleasure are all about perspective. Even when you are cold, tired, and the boat beneath you is slamming off six metre waves, there can be plusses as well as minuses as the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet is finding out. Modern maxi yachts need very little wind to reach incredible speeds. But in big seas and gale force winds the order of business quickly shifts to boat preservation, shedding those acres of sail and trying to steer through waves rather than launching into the void off the top of them at speed. ...

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