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Perpetual LOYAL leads Sydney to Hobart race

SUPERMAXI Perpetual LOYAL remained on course yesterday to win the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in record time after inheriting the lead when race favorite Wild Oats XI withdrew due to a hydraulic failure.

Perpetual LOYAL took the lead when eight-time line honors winner Wild Oats quit the race early yesterday and for the second year in a row with a failure which affected its moveable keel. Wild Oats was well on the way to taking line honors and breaking its own 2012 race record of 1 day, 18 hours, 23 minutes and 12 seconds when it was forced to quit the race when already in Bass Strait, which separates Tasmania state from the Australian mainland. It had to turn back to the port of Eden in southern New South Wales. Perpetual LOYAL was also on record pace. Optimistic forecasts have it finishing in Hobart at midnight, more than seven hours inside Wild Oats’ record. It will more likely finish in the early hours of the morning, still up to four hours inside the line honors record.

 




 

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