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  2. Digby Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Melbourne to Osaka Digby Fergusson Taylor MBE (24 October 1941 – 18 April 2017) was a New Zealand sailor who skippered yachts in both the 1981–82 and 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Races . Taylor built and skippered the 51-foot sloop Outward Bound , designed by Laurie Davidson , which competed in the 1981–82 Whitbread Round the World ...

  3. Vinny Lauwers - Wikipedia

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    Before his circumnavigation, Lauwers gained extra experience in the Melbourne to Osaka Yacht Race, a non-stop south-to-north, double-handed race, covering a 5500-nautical-mile (10,186 km) course between the two sister cities [7] and also sailing in two Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races with the Sailors with Disability (SWD) crew, including SWD's ...

  4. Ocean Racing Club of Victoria - Wikipedia

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    The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria is a member club of the Australian Sailing (formally Yachting Australia) and the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). [citation needed] Membership is drawn from all of the major keel boat yacht clubs in Victoria, but does not compete with other yacht clubs by operating a clubhouse or marina facility.

  5. Sailing in Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is the premier blue water Australian race, starting on Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day every year. The race attracts a wide variety of boats from supermaxi yachts to small private boats. The race was first held in 1945. [3] The Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race starts on 27 January in Port Phillip Bay. Racers trace a ...

  6. The Ocean Race - Wikipedia

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    Race participants in Baltimore Inner Harbor, 2006. The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, [1] in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Race after Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo took up the sponsorship, [1] and in 2019 it was ...

  7. Angelina Jolie Gets Asked 'the Most Insane Question.' Here's ...

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    Angelina Jolie balked at a question regarding whether there should be a biopic about her life.. When Jolie, 49, and her Maria director Pablo Larraín spoke with the U.K.'s The Times to promote ...

  8. Clipper route - Wikipedia

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    The result was the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, which was not only the first single-handed round-the-world yacht race, but the first round-the-world yacht race in any format. Possibly the strangest yacht race ever run, it culminated in a successful non-stop circumnavigation by just one competitor, Robin Knox-Johnston , who became the first ...

  9. Tragic discovery in Oregon: Missing hiker’s body found ...

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    The search for missing hiker Susan Lane-Fournier, 61, took a tragic turn after her body was found over the weekend in Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community at the base of Mount Hood.