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Sydney Hobart Race display at Maritime Museum Tasmania

6:23 AM Thu 23 Dec 2010 GMT

'Westward sailing up the River Derwent earlier this year on her return to Hobart 62 years after winning consecutive Sydney Hobart races' Peter Campbell &copy Click Here to view large photo

A rarely seen painting of Rani, the first winner of the now world-renowned ocean yacht race, the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, is on display at the Maritime Museum of Tasmania from next Tuesday. The famous marine artist, the late Jack Earl, who also competed in the inaugural Sydney Hobart in his ketch Kathleen, created the painting, depicting Rani crossing the finish line off Castray Esplanade on the morning 2 January 1946. Rani was skippered by Captain John Illingworth RN, an English naval officer and amateur yachtsman who convinced a group of Australian yacht owners to ?make a race? of a ...

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by For Maritime Museum of Tasmania by Peter Campbell

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