Heaven Can Wait charity regatta sails to life on Lake Macquarie

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Updated February 20 2021 - 6:48pm, first published 5:30am
Sailor and cancer survivor Garry van Dijk, with the scar on his back where a melanoma was removed. Picture: Simone De Peak
Sailor and cancer survivor Garry van Dijk, with the scar on his back where a melanoma was removed. Picture: Simone De Peak

GARRY van Dijk has competed in 15 Sydney to Hobart races, but the wildest and most fraught voyage the sailor has ever undertaken is the journey through cancer.

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Scott Bevan is a senior writer for The Newcastle Herald. He has also worked in radio and television and is the author of six books.

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