In it to try and win again
There's something about a big milestone race that draws prior entrants to try it again. Eight entrants in the 50th Melbourne to Hobart Westcoaster are prior winners of the race.
Nigel Jones is one of our skippers who has attempted the race on different boats, first in 1990 as skipper of Paladin, then 1999 together with Cam McKenzie where they were the only finishers on Cadibarra 7. This year they race on Ginan, a J111.
Tevake II, Sadly Angus Fletcher is not longer with us but the crew of Tevake II will sail her in the race and once again will be looking to make Angus proud in adding to his wins of 2012 and 2013.
Justin Brenan, knows the road to Hobart along the Westcoast well, being overall winner 2009, 2011, 2017 and has 4 other podium places to his name.
From SA, we have John Muirhead on Enchantress back, who cleaned up on all divisions in 2010
Paul Buchholz, skippered the earlier Extasea to an overall win in 2015 and has 4 Line honours and 4 more podium places to his name.
There have been a number of Cadibarra's in the race but it was Paul Roberts (our current Sail Captain) on Cadibarra 8 who was the overall winner 2016
2019 In one of our slower races, where crews saw rare glass conditions on the Westcoaster, it was Jeff Sloan (our current Vice Commodore) on Archie
And Matt Fahey on Faster Forward will be trying to claim a back-to-back win after taking the West of King Island route last year and claiming the overall win. Meet the fleet herehttps://www.orcv.org.au/sailing/races/hobart-races
