Article: Sail: Overall race honours is anybody's: Spies.


AAP Sports News (Australia)
12-16-2004
Sail: Overall race honours is anybody's: Spies.

By Adrian Warren

SYDNEY, Dec 16 AAP - Michael Spies, the skipper of last year's Sydney to Hobart overall
winner, believes the field for this year is a lot more open with the bigger boats coming
more into contention.

His 40-footer First National Real Estate was the last overall winner to come from the
IMS division with race organisers deciding the victor for 2004 would come from the IRC
class.

The move will enable all the big maxis to vie for overall honours as some of them last
year were not eligible for the IMS division.

However, the IRC division has a faster speed limit than the IMS restriction ...

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