NUMBER OF ENTRANTS BECALMED
Received - Friday, 12.10 a.m. ' SYDNEY, Dec. 26. T.ate report s indicare :t-hat- 'the' iBerliiudan eutter Morna (X'.S.W.) is leildin«r |jv more than half an hour the 1!) vnelits whieh left Svdney this niorning on the race to Hohai't. -Merlan (Victoria) is lying seeond with Sonthern Maid (Tasmania) third. Spectacular sailing has heen prevented by light winds and this afternoon ahout ten entrants seemed to he heealmed olf Fape Banks. Bute reports do not give the position of the Xew Zealand entrant llex. Experts consider that the llex has a ifreat chanee in heavv weather because she is Avell loaded down and is efjuipped with heavv gear. In light winds she mav he outsailed by thc lighter loaded and lighter rig'ged yaclits.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 December 1946, Page 5
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