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‘Empty feeling’: Devastated skippers take to the harbour amid Sydney to Hobart cancellation – Sydney Morning Herald
For 75 years, a starter’s gun has fired at 1pm on Boxing Day to start the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. This year, the boats hit the headland and turned straight…
Usually flying down the harbour on his famous race-winning yacht Ichiban, skipper Matt Allen instead took opted to take his powerboat out for the occasion. Allen was robbed of the chance to take back-to-back Tattersall Cup wins this year.
“It was a weird, slightly empty feeling … looking out at the harbour and imaging what it could have been like,” he said. “It’s been 75 years of history.”
For many of the sailors, the news of the race’s cancellation was made even harder to digest with near-perfect…
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