57th Sydney Hobart Race in retrospect the race's young guns. (News from All Ports).(Brief Article)

From: Offshore Yachting | Date: April 1, 2002 | Copyright information

An article on Sydney Hobart Race statistics that was published in the December/January 2001-2002 edition of Offshore Yachting has provoked responses from proud parents claiming that their sons were the youngest ever skippers in the great race.

In that issue, we published, from Cruising Yacht Club of Australia records, that Warwick Rooklyn from Sydney and Liz Wardley, originally from Port Moresby, were the youngest skippers on record. Both were aged 19 at the time they co...

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