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    Apr 02, 2023 4 minutes

    Some sailors race around amphitheatre harbours, before an audience of thousands, with boats bedecked with sponsors’ labels. But in New Plymouth on April 9, another breed of sailors will round the harbour breakwaters and head for Southport, Queensland, about 2270km northwest.

    Most of the 10 sailors are self-funded and some have built their own boats. They will be sailing what is often the family yacht, so there will be a diverse range of vessels, though all have to meet exacting safety standards.

    The Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge, the only single-handed ocean race within the Southern Hemisphere, has set out at Easter from New Plymouth roughly every four years since 1970. The city faces the Tasman Sea, with no

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