The 115-year-old boat on Gumtree trying to win the Sydney to Hobart | SMHsport
If only Sydney to Hobart hopeful Katwinchar could talk. At 115 years of age, as the oldest yacht to ever compete in the race, she would have a story to tell.
We’d ask about all the missing years that followed until Barry-Cotter’s son, Bill, started searching for the 32-foot ketch he had been mesmerised by as a kid.We’d ask what it felt like to be sitting in the front yard of an elderly woman’s home at Hexham, just north of Newcastle, ready to be taken to the tip when suddenly, out of nowhere, her phone rang.
“I was an apprentice boat builder when Dad got it and I was really intrigued with the construction of it,” Bill says. “It was very lightly built and different in shape to most other boats. It was radically different at the time; about 60 years ahead of its time. There were only 13 other boats in the race that year. This year, which marks the 75th anniversary of the race, there are 164 entrants.
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