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Jasper Bruce

Promise driving Sydney to Hobart's oldest boat Sylph VI

Bob Williams will participate in the Sydney to Hobart on board Sylph VI to honour a race veteran. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Somewhere along the 628 nautical-mile journey from Sydney to Hobart, retired naval officer Bob Williams will lay a sailing legend to rest, and fulfil a promise that brings a tear to his eye.

The promise traces its origin to the turn of the century, when Williams was re-fitting his new boat Sylph VI on the NSW mid-north coast.

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