Date Published:
Thursday 12 May 2005
Veteran yachtsmen heading for Australia
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veteran yachtsmen, Alex Whitworth, 62, and Peter Crozier, 59, are
making their way on an epic voyage to Falmouth from Australia. The two will make Falmouth their first landfall before going to the Solent and hopefully take part in this year's Fastnet Race. The
two like a challenge. In 1998, sailing the 33foot Berrimilla built in
1977, one of the smallest boats in the Sydney to Hobart fleet, they
took on a savage storm that hit the race, leaving six dead and several
boats sunk. They made it to the finish line, winning their division. Last
year the pair race the 2004 Sydney to Hobart and, afterwards made their
way via Cape Horn, to the Falklands and on towards England. After the Fastnet race they plan to return to Australia around the Cape of Good Hope. This week the two yachtsmen were "looking at Newfoundland". "Our thoughts are now very much towards Falmouth and the big to-do list we have when we get there," they said. Simon
Jinks, chief cruising instructor, Royal Yachting Association, met Alex
and Peter, who comes from Britain, last year when he was teaching the
Royal Yachting Association Courses in Brisbane. He said they were an
amazing pair. After taking part in the Fastnet Race they hoped to head back down under for the next Sydney-Hobart race, he said.
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