Boating New Zealand – April 2018

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AGAINST

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A father and son face of in this

year’s Trans-Tasman Solo race.

In the throes of battle, is a blood

relative given any leeway?

Not bloody likely!

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ell if you’re doing it, I’ll have to then, won’t I?”

Tis is a surprisingly casual statement

from someone choosing to take on one of

the Southern Hemisphere’s most gruelling

single-handed yacht races.

But it’s these exact words which have

led to this year’s only father-and-son competitors in the Solo

Trans-Tasman 1,380-nautical mile yacht race – father Malcolm

Dickson racing against son Hamish.

Te race is a four-yearly contest across a ferce stretch of

water famous for its legacy of shipwrecks, abandonments and

cyclones. It starts in New Plymouth on April 1 and fnishes in

Mooloolaba on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Tere are 17 entries

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WORDS BY HANA HIELKEMA

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