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UPDATE | 0800 Saturday 5 December

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  • 05 Dec, 2020 09:00:00 AM
UPDATE | 0800 Saturday 5 December

UPDATE | 0800 Saturday 5 December

See how teams have settled after the first night of racing

Throughout the night the fleet was able to maintain good speed with the available wind as they made their way up to Cabbage Tree Island. The pack of TP52s along with many of the 50-70 foot entrants have made it around the island but breese in the northern half of the racecourse has rapidly diminished since sunrise with a large portion of the fleet struggling to keep moving as they close in and look to round the island.

The front running super maxis have managed to be able to dodge the softening breeze with both in eyeshot of Sydney Heads on their run to the finish.

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  • LINE HONOURS: After a tight tussle inside Sydney Harbour the race for line honours is currently in the hand of Christian Becks InfoTrack with close to a nautical mile gap back to Peter Harburg's Black Jack
  • IRC HANDICAP: IRC Div 1 sees Matt Allens Ichi Ban leading a string of 50-70 footers whilst David Henry's Sweet Chariot IV leads in Div 2
  • ORCi HANDICAP: David Griffith's Whisper is holding strong at the top of ORCi Div1 with Sweet Charriot IV currently leading ORCi Div 2
  • PHS HANDICAP: PHS Div 1 sees Whisper in PHS Div 1 poll position and Sweet Charriot IV continuing their grasp on PHS Div 2
  • TWO HANDED LINE HONOURS: For the race of first two-handed back to the finish Rupert Henry's Burning Palms is showing good form ahead of the rest of the two-handed fleet.
  • CONDITIONS: Current weather conditions off the coast of Newcastle is a light southerly breese at 4-5 knots

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