Mewstone Race challenge issued by Tasmanian skippers

12:52 AM Wed 22 Dec 2010 GMT

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Tasmanian yachtsmen have issued a challenge to visiting mainland yacht owners to contest the nation?s southernmost ocean race, the Mewstone, to be sailed out of Hobart to 43 degrees south on 21 January 2011. Local yachts already entered include David Creese?s Dekadence, Nat Morgan?s Hot August Night, Shes the Culprit, to be skippered by Paul Nanscawen, and Whistler, skippered by David Rees. 'We would like to see owners of yachts from Melbourne, Sydney or Adelaide leave their boats in Hobart after the races from Sydney and Melbourne at Christmas, then fly back with their crews to contest the Mewstone,' says ...

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