8:19 AM Thu 30 Dec 2010 GMT
Rolex Sydney Hobart. With a newly adjusted rig creaking under the pressure of a 50 knot southerly blasting off Victoria?s coast, Tasmanian Rob Fisher thought it was game over for his crew aboard Helsal III. Fisher took an unplanned right-hand turn and headed west to Eden to start major repairs and reinforcements on the rig that had been adjusted to a masthead and moved aft just weeks before the race. Sure the detour cost them at least four hours race time, but they returned to the track with newfound confidence in the Adams 20 and vengeance to pursue fellow Tasmania
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by Danielle McKay
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