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John Boetje and John Woods were racing #53 at Harwood, on the Clarence River in Northern NSW. The Big River Sailing Club hosts the annual ‘Bridge to Breakers’ regatta, and the strong winds and flat water suit the Windrush well.

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Hailing from Noosa, Dave and Elaine’s W600 is fairly close to a standard narrow version, except that replacement of the rig has ‘lost’ the original Sail

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She was originally bought in 1981 and was shipped to Gove N.T. At some point the original owner sold, but the boat remained in Gove. I originally saw this boat on 44 gallon drums in a park in Gove in 1992

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There are a few different strategies for getting the Windrush 600 mast up and down. For its size, it’s not actually all that heavy, and I’ve seen crews ‘walk it up’ on the trampoline with someone pulling on the forestay.

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The Windrush 600 was conceived by Richard Macfarlane as a progression for those who had grown up with the surfcat scene, possibly married with a young family, and who wanted to continue

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Way back in the early ‘eighties, I saw a magazine article about the ‘new’ Windrush 600 … it sounded interesting, but at that time I was unable to follow its progress. I lost track of these vessels for twenty years, until