Outstanding 50 footer which led the Australian team to victory in the 1988 Kenwood Cup in Hawaii before going on to win the 1988 Big Boat series in San Francisco. She finished a luckless fourth overall but first in Division A of the 1988 Hobart race, missing a place in the Australian team for the Admiral's Cup. Great News was chartered to the US, winning the 1989 Fastnet Race overall under the command of the late Tom Blackaller, but with a US-Australian crew.