Fred Duffield's race history goes back quite a long way. He first competed in the Sydney Hobart in 1946, and is about to notch up his 15th race south. Five races were done on other people's yachts and eight aboard his own, four of those with his present Muir 48 Trevassa. Duffield has contested many offshore races, including all the CYCA's major races and the Hobart Sydney bicentenary race in 1988.