It was meant to be the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge. Smoke conditions on Sydney Harbour meant that plain old visual navigation was difficult enough - Nic Doig-Higgs in command of the Technohull Omega 45

© John Curnow Bush-fires rage but marine industry powers through - Australian MarineBusinessWorld.com newsletter
It's not every day that one wakes to the acrid smell of smouldering residual timber and grassland after fire has swept through the bush. But in Sydney we are becoming used to it.