Vittoria
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A Victorian sloop, the Vittoria. won the in augural Sydney-Suva yacht race over 1,735 nautical miles, on corrected time. Skippered by Lou Abrahams, she was third across the line, just behind Bacardi (Bill Rockcliff) which was 52 seconds ahead. On corrected time, Bacardi was placed second. In third place was Four Winds Two (Stan Gibson).
Line honours were taken by Boomerang,
42 ft sloop (Alby Burgin), which covered the distance in nine days, 22 hours, 35 minutes 9.5 seconds. She crossed the finishing line about three hours ahead of Bacardi and Vit toria. Seven of the eight starters finished the course under sail. A sloop. Love and War, which was one of the early leaders, retired because of bad mast damage when only 42 miles from Suva. She covered the rest of the course under power.
Burgin said later it had been a very fast race. Conditions were mainly good, except for the last three days, when his sloop ran into strong ESE winds and very rough seas.
Boomerang is from Belmont, south of New castle, NSW.