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Tyger / Robert Neilson


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2014-06-10 06:38:06 - Melbourne to Vanuatu Race 2014
The Melbourne to Vanuatu race is conducted every 4 years and 2014 sees Sailonline in a buddy-up with the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria. It is organised by the ORCV in conjunction with several Melbourne clubs and the Vanuatu Cruising Yacht Club.

This is a 1885nm race that crosses several different weather systems. We leave wintery Melbourne by sailing out of Port Phillip Bay through its notorious rip at the heads, into the roaring forties of Bass Strait, across the unpredictable Tasman Sea and finish in the trade winds of the Coral Sea in the warm tropics at Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu.

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version 2 only has minor edit of words

--- Last Edited by Tyger / Robert Neilson at 2014-06-12 07:42:42 ---
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2014-06-11 14:18:59 - Re: Melbourne to Vanuatu Race 2014
Hiya Tyger

What a brilliant coup.... getting our first ORCV buddy up for this zoom from Melbourne to Vanuatu!! Love it.

OK.. the race is now set up and ready for everyone to preview.

To preview this race, you will need to log in as the sol boat:

USERNAME: sol
PASSWORD: sol

and then click here

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--- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2014-06-11 14:19:33 ---
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2014-06-14 17:12:07 - Re: Melbourne to Vanuatu Race 2014
OK folks... this seems to have passed muster so the sol boat will now be deleted and the race archived until it opens for racing.

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