Previously named Saltshaker 2, this Farr 11.6 was built by Binks Yachts in Adelaide and raced to Hobart in 1983, finishing 150th overall. Owner/skipper Bruce Hitchman, now 60, has had a remarkable sailing career, sailing from New Zealand as a deck boy aboard the four-masted barque Pamir in 1944, and becoming an Able Seaman aboard the square-rigger. In more recent years his sailing has been aboard catamarans and cruising yachts, with this his first Sydney to Hobart.