1:50 AM Wed 26 May 2010 GMT
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'Dixie Cup'
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Police have resumed the search this morning for a sailor who has vanished on a solo trip between Port Stephens and Newcastle. Around 1630 on Sunday 65-year-old Bill Valient, of Telarah left Port Stephens in light weather and flat seas on the 22 nautical mile passage across the Stockton Bight to Newcastle in his six metre white sloop Dixie Cup. Relatives reported the sailor missing late on Monday after he failed to show up at Hexham on Newcastle's Hunter River. A giant air and sea search yesterday failed to find any trace of the sailor and despite hundreds of moorings
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by www.sail-world.com
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