Snow family sailing again on Brindabella

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• 31 Oct, 2003 08:52:00 AM

Snow family sailing again on Brindabella

George Snow is taking three of his adult children aboard Brindabella in the yacht's 10th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

Brindabella, arguably Australia’s best known maxi yacht, will sail south again this year,  with owner/skipper George Snow at the helm and three of his children among the crew of the Jutson 80.

For Snow,  this will be his 21st Sydney Hobart race, taking with him his youngest daughter,  20-year-old Tamsin,  on her first Hobart Race.  Also sailing with their father will be sons Rob (26) and Richard (22), both veterans of past Hobarts.

“While this will be the first Sydney Hobart for Tamsin,  she has sailed aboard Brindabella in races to Mooloolaba and Southport and does a lot of winter and twilight sailing with us,” Snow said today.

For the present,  he has put on hold plans to build a new boat with a canting keel, also holding back on the sale of Brindabella;  the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2003 is back on his sailing agenda.

“Until Yachting Australia resolves the question of canting keels we will not go ahead with a new boat,” Snow said.

“We’ve been parked for a while,  but we’ve put the old team back together to sail Brindabella in her 11th Sydney Hobart.

“It’s shaping up to be a great race at the top; I think it will be a very close race for line honours,” added Snow,  who sailed the boat to victory in the 1997 Sydney Hobart Race and has taken line honours in all major long races along the Australian East Coast and to Lord Howe Island.

Another wellknown maxi, Ludde Ingvall’s  Nicorette,  also will be campaigning again for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after extensive modifications, including having a canting keel and longer bowsprit fitted to the 80-footer.

Applications for Entry in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2003 close with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia next Friday,  7 November at 1700 hours.