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- Salt Lines
Salt Lines
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Matthew Harvey and crew will have a more comfortable ride to Hobart than most on this attractive Shipwright 70. She is steel-hulled, 30-ton ketch and was built for the Ocean Youth Trust. Making her Hobart debut in 2022, she finished 11th in PHS, then retired from the 2023 race with sail damage.
Launched as John Laing in Poole, UK, she departed the UK in October 2019 as TravelEdge and made it to Tahiti by March 2020, when COVID restrictions brought the voyage to a halt. She was partially decommissioned and kept at a marina in Papeete. There she was bought by Harvey, who renamed her Salt Lines and brought to Australia to join the Ocean Sailing Expeditions fleet.
Competitor Details
| Yacht Name | Salt Lines |
| Sail Number | GBR5672L |
| Owner | Matthew Harvey |
| Skipper | Murray Stewart (5) |
| Navigator | Rick Stern (4) |
| Crew | John Cook (1), Samuel Estoppey, Andrew Griffiths, Adam Head, Jess Hix (1), Trevor Howard, Steve Kane, Barry Meredith, Andrew Poperechny, Ken Thomas (1), James Toole, Lara Tyler, Jacqui Webb |
| State | NSW |
| Club | CYCA |
| Type | Shipwright 70 |
| LOA | 21.0 |
| Beam | 5.5 |
| Draft | 2.8 |
