Wednesday 20 February 2013

Team Australia on standby to attempt to set new passage record for the Sydney to Hobart Route

Team Australia is Banque Populaire IV a much travelled ORMA 60 now setting new records "Down Under".

From the following Sail-World article submitted by Lisa Ratcliff

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Team-Australia-aims-to-shatter-long-standing-Sydney-Hobart-record/106719

The fastest yacht in the southern hemisphere, Sean Langman’s imposing 60-foot trimaran Team Australia and its six adrenaline-fuelled crewmembers are gearing up to try and break the first of a number of South Pacific course and race records. World-renowned marine forecaster Roger ‘Clouds’ Badham says conditions this coming Friday, February 22, could create the perfect weather window to break Mari Cha III’s 1999 course record from Sydney to Hobart.

Forecast fresh easterlies, little seaway and beating the start of the whale migration north from Antarctica are the necessary ingredients for the attempt. Based on current models all these elements are set to align later this week.

Langman and his crew are planning to leave Sydney Harbour from a set of bearings between North and South Head on Friday morning. They will use the famous Sydney Hobart yacht race finish line off Battery Point in Hobart to mark the end point of their record attempt.

A recording box will be installed tomorrow on Team Australia by World Sailing Speed Record Council representative John Brookes and the information verified at the finish, should the 14 year-old fastest course time be bettered.
read more here

and a video of Team Australia in action in the Sail Paradise regatta:

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