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To win the Hobart - first you have to ....

Sailing

9:25 PM Tue 28 Dec 2010 GMT
Get to Green Cape with Life Raft, Motor, Comms and Crew in good order. During the aftermath of the 1998 Sydney Hobart race it emerged that a number of boats sailed into Bass Strait blissfully unaware of the 80-90 knot weather bomb ahead, because they had lost radio communications. From 1999 onwards there has been a Mandatory requirement for a Green Cape declaration, that the vessel had life rafts, engines, HF radio and crew in good condition, to either Eden base or the Radio Relay vessel. Reports to Eden could be made during a sked on another radio frequency. In ...

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by Rob Kothe and the Sail-World Team