Boating New Zealand — January 2018

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multiple Sydney-Hobart winner Wild Oats XI, with

Richards as skipper, and Mason as mastman. This year

they took the title.

This summer her owner is taking Anuha II, loaded

with a bunch of fishing-mad mates, to Lord Howe

Island, as a demonstration of the vessel’s great range,

comfort and seakeeping ability. The GB 60 has a

high-speed cruising range of around 1,000 nautical

miles at 20 knots, which means many more similar

expeditions are planned.

Our voyage for this review was much less

ambitious: a short-ish run down the harbour and

through the Sydney Heads to the open sea.

Sydney put on a stunning day, with blues skies

and temperatures in the mid-twenties. The harbour is

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