Wathara II (four days, 12 hours, 33 minutes and 48 seconds) finished 34th on corrected time, with Salacia third and Balandra (Sir Robert Crichton- Brown), twenty-sixth on handicap.
The 41-foot sloop Salacia logged 725 nautical miles, probably the longest distance covered by any of the race entrants, but still managed to finish ninth across the line.
Owner-skipper Arthur Byrne said that once they had left Sydney Heads they didn't sight land again until they passed Schouten Island: "our navigator had to be extra careful and used the sun, dead reckoning and radio directional findings to check our position," (he was reported as saying after the race).
The 41-foot sloop Salacia logged 725 nautical miles, probably the longest distance covered by any of the race entrants, but still managed to finish ninth across the line.
Owner-skipper Arthur Byrne said that once they had left Sydney Heads they didn't sight land again until they passed Schouten Island: "our navigator had to be extra careful and used the sun, dead reckoning and radio directional findings to check our position," (he was reported as saying after the race).
Patsy of Island Bay, pictured in 1972. Built by Muir's in 1950,
she was reunited with Jock twenty years later in 1970.
she was reunited with Jock twenty years later in 1970.