Tassie sailor is a long way from home

2:08 AM Thu 26 Aug 2010 GMT

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Living on a boat does come with advantages for midwife and emergency nurse Annie McComb. It means she can take three months to cruise her 'home' leisurely north from Hobart to contest Audi Hamilton Island Race Week, and when she's asked to join an overseas medical program she can simply dry dock her Cavalier 395 Epsilon. McComb sold her house and bought Epsilon from Richard Buxton after joining the Perth to Melbourne legs of Buxton's Australian circumnavigation aboard the Cavalier design in 2000 which took the route Matthew Flinders took 200 years earlier on his discovery of the Australian coastline. ...

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by Lisa Ratcliff

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