This yacht has a very experienced crew and will be trying very hard this year particularly as they had to retire from last year's event, off Bermagui. She had the misfortune to spring a leak and this had the boys bailing furiously until she made port. This trouble has been rectified as witness her second place in the last Montague Island Race which produced gales and seas enough to test any boat: a well-deserved placing. Southerly, built in 1939 by F Boyle and Son, will be out to maintain her record.