St Jude

St Jude sailed her first offshore race in the 2008 Australia Day Ocean Pointscore Race to Botany Bay return and won. Noel Cornish and his crew went on to finish third overall in the CYCA’s 2010/11 Ocean Pointscore (OPS), following on from her PHS win in 2009/10 OPS. In the 2012/2013 season, finished fourth. In the present series, with two races in the bag, St Jude is sitting pretty in second place, with plenty of racing to come.

Her best Rolex Sydney Hobart result came in 2009 with a fourth place in IRC Division 2. Last year St Jude finished 46^th overall for eighth in Division 2. The crew, is made up of a group of friends, who in various combinations have sailed together for many years, Cornish’s personal record includes winning the 1999 Adelaide–Port Lincoln Race overall with his then yacht, a Beneteau FC10 named Subjude. Jude is a common theme for his boats, as his wife’s name is Judith. 

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