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Century-old boat readies for Sydney-Hobart race
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The lineup for Australia鈥檚 gruelling Sydney to Hobart bluewater classic this year includes a wooden boat built in 1904, the oldest vessel ever to compete in the race.
A total of 164 yachts are expected at the start line for the milestone 75th Sydney-Hobart race on December 26, making it the biggest fleet in 25 years, officials announced yesterday. Katwinchar, a 10-meter ketch built in 1904, is one of several older wooden vessels taking part in the often brutal 628-nautical mile (1,163-kilometer) slog across the Tasman Sea. Australian boat-builder Bill Barry-Cotter said his father had part-owned Katwinchar for a few years in the 1960s until it 鈥渂asically disappeared鈥. 鈥淚 started advertising for it 10 or 12 years ago and got nothing, then suddenly somebody rang me up and said it was on (e-commerce site) Gumtree. So I went down and got the boat, it was in a very bad shape.鈥 Barry-Cotter has spent years restoring the boat to its former glory so he could enter it into this year鈥檚 historic event. Supermaxi Wild Oats XI won a record ninth line honors in 2018鈥檚 ocean race after a thrilling battle between four supermaxis, with several lead changes.
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