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WITHOUT RUDDERE IN
OCEAN RACE
SYDNEY, Sunday.-The 52ft. ketch Kurrewa
ill., a competitor in theSydney-Hobart yacht race,
has lost her ruddTr.
A radio report, sent when the
ketch was south of Montague Island,
said that the crew was trying to
rig other steering gear.
A special forecast for the yachts was
for rising seas and strong westerly
winds within 10 or 12 hours.
The Secretary of the Cruisirig Yacht
Club (Mr. E. Le Brun) said to-night
that while some method of steering
Kurrewa III might be devised. the
ketch might be in trouble if she ran
into heavy weather.
Air Assistance
Mr. Le Brun said the Department
of Air had promised assistance if
needed by any of the yachts.
If a yacht sent out distress signals.
a Catalina would be sent to its assist
ance from Rathmines.
Mr. Le Brun said Kurrewa III had
not called for assistance.
IKurrewa III is Victoria's only repre
sentative in the race.
She struck trouble in a gale.during
the 1946 race and finished a long
way behind the other yachts. She has
been in the Barrier Reef area for most
of the last year. Her crew is experi
enced.
Eight yachts were reported to-nght
to have passed Cape Howe lighthouse.
near the Victorian-New South Wales
border.
The lighthouse-keeper could not
identify the yachts, but believed that
the cutter Morna was in the lead, fol
lowed by two more cutters and a gaff
schooner, which was probably Mistral.
10 Knots in Swell
Then came a cutter, followed by a
yawl, which may have been the 34ft.
Moonbi. and another cutter.
The yachts were making about 10
knots in a steady ground swell.
The 65ft. cutter, Morna, was in the
lead off Gabo Island, 270 miles south
of Sydney, late this afternoon. She
was followed by the early leader,
Josephline, a 48ft. sloop, and the 49ft.
gaff cutter, Defiance. Trade Winds,
a 43ft. sloop, was fourth. All are
Sydney yachts.
Earlier, nine yachts were reported
well off Green Cape, 220 miles from
Sydney.
They were well spread out, about
16 miles separating the leader from
the last yacht. They were about 10
miles off the coast, and could not be
identified. All were carrying full sails.
Trade Winds has done well to gain
such a prominent position. She is
built of welded steel plates, and is
powerful and fast. The yacht was
prominent in last year's race, until de
layed by a gale in Bass Strait.
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