Previous Tattersall Cup winners including defending champion Alive, Centennial 7 (previously Celestial), Love & War, and Unicoin (won as Assassin) are in the fleet.

Unicoin, Peter Bremner’s Farr 277 was originally an IMS Farr 40 one-off called Assassin. She co-won the Sydney Hobart in her launch year, 1992, when winners were announced in two rating bands.
 
Bremner, who was aboard for her 1992 win, bought her in February and has been busy converting her for the IRC rule, from which the Overall winner is decided.
 
“We’re confident that we’ve put together a program that can be competitive given the right conditions,” Bremner said.

UniCoin crew member Barry (Bear) Myrden who will be competing on the Unicoin owned by Peter Bremner in the Sydney to Hobart, modelling the collaboration between MJ Bale and North Sails.

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On Sunday the 15th of December only ten days before the start of the Sydney to Hobart the crew and the sails combined on Sydney Harbour for the first time.

Overall it was OK with a light to medium breeze. " We had a few issues to resolve but we are still in it", said Pete Bremner afterwards.