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THE weather gods saved their most benevolent favours for the final day of racing of Week 3 of Sail Port Stephens, comprising the Super Series for large racer/ cruiser monohulls and an inaugural division of multihulls. The yacht fleet got cleanly off the line from the Nelson Bay breakwall in a 15 knot northeasterly, which translated into an upwind leg to Boondelbah Island before the first spinnaker leg south to a mark off Box Beach. With the exception of Wild Oats X that led solo, the Super RC Division devolved into closely fought boat-on-boat match races: Triton and Antipodes, Dauget 2 and Drumfire, and Wine-Dark Sea and 51st Project. The most intense duel, between Rob Aldis’ Mylius 50 Daguet 2 and Phillip Neil’s Hoek TC78 Drumfire, lasted right to
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NSW POLICE’S Raptor Squad has targeted 90 alleged Bandidos members and associates during a high-visibility operation in Port
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