ORCV Hutchwilco Melbourne to Stanley (M2S).

What a day.

So it certainly was a night, but as the day changed from cloudy to sunny, chilly to warm and all the way back again, many boats arrived. Here is a sample of boats like Biddy Hu II, Nutcracker, Mille Sabords, Slinky Malinky, Halcyon and Dry White.

Here's Biddy Hu's boom - both pieces of it!!!

Dry White appeared and headed for the bricks so I could get the shot - thanks!

Tacked and went over the line...

Mille Sabords was riding waves up...

...then down, as she appeared.

Finally gliding over the line in a very light patch indeed.

Halcyon arrived in the very same light patch. (That's light patch, OK.)

And like everyone, she was framed by clouds...

Here's Slinky Malinky!

This is Nutcracker who came with breeze and sunlight!!! OK, burst of sunlight, if you will.

She too came in to the line from out East.

The crew had the 35footer wound up early and did well in last night's heavy weather, sailing under three reefs in the mainsail for a while, so they did not have to send crew for'ard when it was blowing 45knots.

If you want to follow it all with the pretty graphics via the sat trackers from Yellowbrick - see HERE for Flash empowered devices and HERE for non-Flash. NB. As per the Information tab on the tracker site (bottom right), the Yellowbrick Trackers transmit every 30 minutes, the map will update whenever it receives new information. A big thank you to all the people commenting on the FB page about the trackers - great information. Cheers.

Right then, we had 37 vessels in the M2S, but Chikara Outlaw withdrew a few days ago, so it's 36 now - Addiction, Alibi, Alien, Arch Rival, Bandit, Biddy Hu II, Cadibarra 8, Calm, Cavarlo, Dekadence, Dark and Stormy, Dry White, eXtasea, FullyNPushing, Gusto, Halcyon, Independent Endeavour, Jazz Player, Kiss Goodbye to MS, Magazan 53, Magic, Matrix, Mille Sabords, Mirrabooka, Nutcracker, Pretty Woman, Scarlet Runner, Slinky Malinky, Spirit of Downunder, Tevake II, Trybooking.com, Under Capricorn, Weekend Option, White Noise, XLR8 and Yoko, which is excellent. Well done and good luck to all.

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