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Peter & Rod from QUEST
In this video interview, Martin Vaughan catches up with Peter Tardrew and Rod Gunther about their preparation of Quest for
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A chat with Mother & Daughter
It’s our aim here to present information about our competitors as we move towards the race start in 2025. Annette
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Vale Trevor Huggard
  We were very sad to learn of the passing of Trevor Huggard who was a driving force behind establishing
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It’s all about the Weather
Robin Hewitt, veteran sailor, multiple Melbourne Osaka Cup competitor and skipper of the well know yacht Yoko, wrote this featured
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A Father & Son Team
It would be hard to find a more capable co-skipper for the world’s longest south to north race, The Melbourne
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Rosie takes on IMT lead Role
Rosie Colahan has been an ORCV medical officer from 2006 and an integral part of their Incident Management Team (IMT) since its inception in 2008. This has been
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First International Yacht Arrives
Sunshine Coast based yacht designer and co-skipper Jon Sayer was in Newcastle this week, to supervise the unloading of  Learning
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Celeste the “Mothership”
Heading to Osaka in 2025 will be two fully female crews. One of them will be aboard Celeste an S&S
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New Japanese Entrant to Join Race
The international entrants continue, with the boat KIHO, a Class 40, skippered by Hiroshi Kitada & co skipper Ms Ai
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Training Webinar
Annette, one of our seminar presenters, described the journey home as “equally rewarding as the race itself.” She reflected on
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Battle Flags & More
For the race to Osaka in 2025, each boat will be given a battle flag to fly. The design has
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2024 Virtual Race to Osaka
Results a Surprise One year prior to the start of the 2025 Melbourne to Osaka double-handed yacht race (M2O) Swedish
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