Ocean Pointscore Sydney to Newcastle - Provisional winner announced

10:11 AM Sat 5 Feb 2011 GMT

'Noel Cornish’s Sydney 47 St Jude wins the Sydney-Newcastle Ocean Pointscore race - CYCA Sydney to Newcastle Race' &copy Rolex/ Kurt Arrigo Click Here to view large photo

Ocean Pointscore Race - Noel Cornish and his Sydney 47 St Jude were announced the provisional winners of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia?s Sydney to Newcastle Race this evening at 7.50pm, when four boats of the original 23 starters were still at sea. David Forbes? Kaiko 52 Merlin (RSYS) took second overall after being scoring line honours at 5.13.02 this afternoon, with Vamp, the Corby 49, owned by CYCA commodore Garry Linacre and past commodore David Fuller, second over the line just six seconds later. A casual entry, Exile, a DK46 owned by Rob Reynolds (MHYC) was third overall, ...

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by Di Pearson