I realise that the trick to posing impossible questions is to run the question through google until nothing comes back.
Deary me, maybe I was being too parochial but I thought at least someone like Hartley would have got this one easily.
Here's a clue.....
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..although I eagerly await the answer from someone more knowledgable than myself.
Six Days previously it was Boxing Day.......
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Mea Culpa. I actually have to admit that I am probably a day out. If the race started at the same time back then as it does now then by the time the winner crossed the line it would in fact have been the 2nd.
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Mea Culpa. I actually have to admit that I am probably a day out. If the race started at the same time back then as it does now then by the time the winner crossed the line it would in fact have been the 2nd.
I know you're referring to the Sydney-Hobart, but the only group of threes I can think of is that in 2007 Bob Oatley's Wild Oats XI became the first boat to win line honours 3 times in a row since Morna won in 1946..
..but that's not all in one year, so you must be thinking of something else?
Cameron
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I know you're referring to the Sydney-Hobart, but the only group of threes I can think of is that in 2007 Bob Oatley's Wild Oats XI became the first boat to win line honours 3 times in a row since Morna won in 1946..
..but that's not all in one year, so you must be thinking of something else?
Cameron
Here's a clue.....Morna the 1946 race. But if it had taken her six days to finish what year would it have been ?
Now back to my question......oh this is a dirty one.....
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Wow, this one really went through to the keeper. It really wasn't all that difficult. On the 2nd of January 1946 Rani crossed the finishing line to complete the first Sydney to Hobart yacht race, the 1945 race but by the time she finished it was 1946. Originally I said 1st of January but she took six days and 14 hours which took it into the early hours of the 2nd.
a feat not repeated until Wild Oats XI did it in 2005.
I'm going back to talking about beer and food.
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Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving....we must sail, sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift nor lie at anchor.- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet
so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and
impatient when least effective."
Who said that ?
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TD, I reckon you've lost the Yanks completely. Congratulations on finding a topic they know nothing about!!
That must be a record in itself!
Tricky one... I'm working on it..
Damn, I thought even you had given up. We must have been typing at the same time.
Cheers and apologies if i spoilt it for you.
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