NOTICE OF
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RECORD

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SPONSOR

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MELBOURNE TO HOBART - EASTCOASTER

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Ocean Race: 460 nm

Race Start: 1255hrs@ Portsea Pier, 27th December 2012

Category: 2

It may be young in yacht race terms, but it sure is popular!

In 2007, to honour the 100th anniversary of the first sailing of the Rudder Cup (see Melbourne to Launceston Race), the ORCV broke with tradition and redirected the course of the famous Melbourne to Hobart Westcoaster to follow the Melbourne to Launceston fleet to their finish line at Low Head near the mouth of the Tamar River and thence on to Hobart via the East coast of Tasmania.

This proved to be a great race in its own right, with many unique navigational challenges. Unlike other races, the course took competitors close in around the coastline, which made for a spectacular and interesting race. So much so, that many competitors called for the race to be repeated and thus the Eastcoaster was born.

Whilst this race doesn’t exactly follow the original course now, it does still follow the coast and provide for those very interesting navigational challenges that the first Eastcoaster was so famous for.

In the end, it also sets up a magnificent battle to see who will be first in from either coast, with the Eastcoaster fleet having to travel a further 20nm than their Westcoaster cousins.

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Winners are Grinners in the Hobart Races

The King of the Derwent was the final race of the East and West Coast series. It was a very tricky race with a southerly and the top of the course an Easterly in the middle and a northerly at the bottom of the course Bandit had a blinder of a race winning the King of the Derwent in IRC.

The Sovereign Series

Ahsley Trebelcock’s Bandit won the Sovereign Series and the IRC Series with Richard McGavie’s Addiction winning the Performance Division

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The Salamanca Series

The Salamanca series was won by Don Fraser’s Dry White with Steven Carey’s Dejavu winning the AMS and Performance Division

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The rest of the Eastcoaster fleet making its way up the Derwent

As people streamed into the media shed last night, many were casting their eyes over the big screen tracker set up at the entrance, raising derisive eyebrows and questioning the decision of Dry White skipper, Simon Dryden, to go inside Maria Island on his way down the east coast.