Verite (DH)

In their maiden Hobart, Paul Beath and then co-skipper, Richard Hooper, raced in the Two-Handed division and finished 60th overall. This time around, Beath has the experienced Teresa Michell as co-skipper, who helped him to 27th overall and ninth DH in the 2024 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race. Michell halted racing at the end of the 1990s to raise a family, but her sailing credentials are outstanding, both two-handed and fully crewed, as a skipper, navigator and crew. She contested the 5500 nautical mile double-handed Melbourne to Osaka race in 1999 on an Adams 10 that she also skippered in the 1998 Double-Handed Trans-Tasman Challenge from Sydney to New Plymouth in New Zealand. She has sailed on the international scene, done Sydney Hobarts and sailed an Olympic class dinghy.

Verite is a French word meaning ‘the quality or state of being true or real’. From the same design board as the 2021 Two-Handed winner, Disko Trooper_Contender Sail Cloth, Verite will join other J/99s in the race.

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