Sydney Gold Coast Race - Black Jack steaming for home on record pace

2:56 PM Sat 31 Jul 2010 GMT

'Peter Harburg’s RP66 Black Jack in action during Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race.' Andrea Francolini / Audi &copy

Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race - Peter Harburg's Queensland based RP66 Black Jack is this evening's Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race leader. According to navigator Ed Smyth they were blasting along in 25-28 knots of breeze at 9pm this evening and pointing towards home on record pace. 'We are a few miles directly in front of Loki reaching in a 25-28kt westerly and doing 17-20 knots. There is water everywhere on the deck,' said Smyth. Michael Bellingham, navigator of the second boat in the fleet, Stephen Ainsworth's RP63 Loki concurred, 'We have Black Jack to leeward and a little forward. ...

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