Illusion

This sturdy Davidson 34 will be minus experienced co-owner Kim Jaggar this year. Instead Travis Read will guide Illusion for a second time since he and Jaggar purchased the yacht in time for last year’s race. Illusion won the 1988 Hobart with original owner, Gino Knezic of Victoria, and is among the smaller winners of the race.

With her current owners, Illusion finished fourth in IRC Division 4 in last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart and sixth in the CYCA’s 2012-2013 Blue Water Pointscore Series.In the current BWPS, it is 11^th  after the completion of five races, her best result being second in the Flinders Islet Race in September. Read can also count third in division as crew for Phil Molony’s Papillon in the 2011 Hobart race.

Designed to the now defunct IOR rule, she also performs well under IRC. The proof was 23^rd overall and fourth in Division 4 in last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart in which they had two solid southerly stages. A nice hard blow on the nose with regularity will suit this yacht’s temperament – and we are overdue for one.

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