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TECHNOLOGY Saturday 23 december 2017

Light winds might favor smaller boats in Sydney-Hobart race

SYDNEY (AP) — The four little breeze.
super maxis entered in this “We’re delighted with the
year’s Sydney to Hobart forecast for now and it will
race might not have it all get us down the coast in
their own way — favorable good shape, but it doesn’t
wind conditions could pro- look good for us in the
duce a record for medium- Derwent River,” LDV Co-
sized boats but might slow manche navigator Stan
down the 100-foot yachts Honey said. “We get there
as they chase line honors. at exactly the wrong time
The 73rd edition of the and Comanche is not at
630-nautical-mile race her best in the light air, so
from Sydney Harbor to the we’ll probably spend a fair
island state of Tasmania amount of time in the river
begins on Dec. 26 and has waiting.”
102 entries, including 30 in- Black Jack sails well in light
ternational boats. winds.
The super maxis entered “Some of these other boats
— LDV Comanche, Wild might get a bit of a jump
Oats XI, Black Jack and In- on us in the offshore stuff,
foTrack — have all won line but it looks like we could be
honors in the past. coming to Tasman quite
Wild Oats XI achieved the late in the day,” Black Jack
treble (line honors, overall In this Dec. 12, 2017, photo, the maxi yacht InfoTrack maneuvers before the start of the Big Boat navigator Tom Addis said.
and race record) in 2012 Challenge, a lead-up event to the Sydney Hobart open ocean yacht race, on Sydney Harbour in “If Comanche and those
and has won line honors a Sydney. Associated Press guys start to struggle in the
record eight times. Black London 2012 Olympic La- ing a year off, watching it swinging around to the light, we might not be too
Jack, formerly named Alfa ser gold medalist for Aus- on the couch with a beer northeast just after the start far behind them.” Among
Romeo, took 2009 line hon- tralia. He was on the boat in hand and watching my next Tuesday and increas- the other entries is the Clip-
ors; LDV Comanche won in last year when it broke the friends go south. But I’ll en- ing from 15 to 25 knots over per Round the World Race
2015 and InfoTrack (racing race record sailing as Per- joy steering the boat and the following 24 hours. fleet, which is including the
as Perpetual Loyal) won it petual Loyal. racing the boat as hard as There could be a southerly Sydney to Hobart as Race
last year, setting the race Slingsby was only an- I can.” change on Dec. 28 or 29, 5 in its series. “The signs are
record of 1 day, 13 hours, nounced as skipper on The weather bureau said but the leading super maxis that it will be a swift down-
31 minutes and 20 seconds. Thursday. Friday that the race could are projected to enter the wind passage down to Ho-
InfoTrack will be skippered “I wasn’t planning on doing start under an east-south- Derwent River in Tasmania bart this year,” Clipper race
by Tom Slingsby, the 2013 it this year,” he said. “I was easterly breeze of around late on the 27th, at a time director Mark Light said of
America’s Cup winner and actually considering hav- 10 knots, with the wind when there’s usually very his medium-sized fleet.q

Welcome/Bon Bini Facebook signs deal with music label

Locals & Island Guests Universal Music

NEW YORK (AP) — Face- The companies did not say
Christmas Eve Special book and record label Uni- when users would be able
versal Music Group have to share music in videos on
“Love Come Down” signed a multiyear deal platforms owned by Face-
that will let Facebook users book. They hinted that
share videos that have the more music features could
label’s music in them. be coming.
Music - Dance - Fellowship Right now, if Facebook’s Facebook declined to
Wesley Methodist Church regular users upload vid- comment about its music In this Monday, June 19, 2017,
eos that contain Universal’s strategy beyond the press file photo, a user gets ready
Long Fellowstraat 3 music, the videos will get release. Universal also de- to launch Facebook on an
(Behind Talk of the Town) taken down. Universal, a clined to comment. iPhone, in North Andover,
Mass.
Facebook is trying to get
unit of French media con-
Oranjestad, Aruba glomerate Vivendi SA, has people to watch and share Associated Press
rights to music from artists more videos. ing subscriptions, but
For information call (297) 584-5243 including Jay-Z, Rihanna, YouTube, the world’s larg- Spotify and Apple Music
Sun., Dec. 24th, 2017 at 6 PM Bruce Springsteen and Jus- est destination for online are thought to be more
tin Bieber. video, sells music-stream- popular.q