Team Lexar, the Lexar-sponsored yacht in the 60th Anniversary Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race has won the Jane Tate Memorial Award as the highest placed boat skippered by a woman.

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January 11, 2005: Team Lexar, the Lexar-sponsored yacht in the 60th Anniversary Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race has won the Jane Tate Memorial Award as the highest placed boat skippered by a woman.
London based skipper, Jakki Moores, and her mainly amateur crew h held their own among seasoned professionals, finishing 37th overall after facing stormy conditions and waves up to 12 metres high. With 55 of the fleet retired after three days at sea, the 2004 60th anniversary Sydney to Hobart yacht race was one of the toughest since 1998.
Team Lexar crossed the finish line off Hobart’s Castray Esplanade in the afternoon on Friday 31 December 2004 having taken 5 days, 37 minutes and 18 seconds to complete the gruelling race. Moores also acted as team photographer throughout the race and the gruelling conditions provided a great opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of Lexar’s 80x Professional CompactFlash memory card range. Jakki used a Nikon D70 digital camera to record pictures of the race and also tested some pre-production samples of Lexar ActiveMemory System CompactFlash cards – the latest innovation from Lexar that will be available locally early this year. The Active Memory System (AMS) allows photographers to load information, profiles and captions onto the memory card prior to its use, so that when the card is full it can be loaded into an AMS card reader connected to a PC or Mac, and all of the data will be automatically applied to every image while it is being downloaded. Details are available from www.lexar.com.au.