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Peter Harburg’s RP 100 Black Jack continues to show good form in her preparations for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, winning the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge on Sydney Harbour last week. In September this year the Bow Caddy Media was given the opportunity to join some of the luminaries of Australian sailing aboard Black Jack (including Tom Slingsby, Chris Nicholson and Tom Addis) for their early work-up campaign in the Whitsundays under skipper Mark Bradford. So, as a taster in the lead-up to the Boxing Day start of the great race south, here’s an on-board view of how the action unfolds on Black Jack when the breeze is up.

Few small yachts of this age enjoy such lavish care for their future. MARISHKA is lucky, but as her history reveals, she's a special one. The unmistakable and beautiful lines of the Loch Fyne Skiff evolved - heavily influenced by yacht design - from the early 1880s on the west coast of Scotland as a seaworthy, seakindly and practical solution for the insatiable demand for herring. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/691/MARISHKA Discerning cruisers warmed to their virtues and many were built as yachts. Apart from being fabulously rebuilt by her present experienced carpenter owner, MARISHKA has the added attraction of ancestry from a branch of the Fifes of Fairlie. Fully authentic externally, and practical and comfortable down below, MARISHKA presents an enticing fusion of old and new.