Melbourne to Vanuatu - 'Blisters on your hands - from steering!'

4:35 AM Sat 10 Jul 2010 GMT

'Scarlet Runner' Andrea Francolini &copy

Melbourne Vanuatu 2010 - This was my favourite comment from Scarlet Runner's skipper, Rob Date, during a chat we had earlier this morning. He certainly was upset, as this race has been part of his plan since she was christened last year. 'It is very disappointing, you know. We just had a lot of water wet everywhere and it simply killed the electrics. I'm now pretty sure it came in through the shore power inlet. We lost everything - house and engine batteries, the lot. We had the handheld VHF and a GPS. Yesterday, we came in to Southport under ...

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by John Curnow