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Situated just 2,600 nautical miles away from the finish line off Ushant and about to start her 43rd day at sea, Spindrift 2 is now only 266 miles off the pace, but will no longer be able to improve on…
The New Year has brought a new determination to the Clipper Race fleet which, after a short stopover in Hobart, is back racing and charging across the Bass Strait in the sixth of this fourteen race series. The Henri Lloyd…
A straightforward final night at sea for the Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race fleet brought the last boat, Out of Sight, from 42 starters to the finish line at 0632hours this morning, Monday January 4, 2016. All boats…
The sixth stage of the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race got underway today following the fleet's successful Sydney-Hobart campaign. The Henri Lloyd Hobart to Whitsundays Race is the sixth of 14 races which make up the 11-month global…
Maxi yacht Beau Geste was 33 miles from the finish line at 0600hrs this morning, day two of the Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race, with a calculated ETA of 0800hrs, just half an hour outside the longstanding race…
Paul Einoder’s Beneteau Oceanis 34 Off-Piste has dominated handicap results in the 2015 National Pies Launceston to Hobart Yacht, today being named Overall winner, including taking first place on corrected time in both the AMS and IRC handicap divisions. The…
Corrected time results for handicap honours in the Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race seem certain to favour smaller boats after the slowest elapsed time in the nine editions of the race since 2007. For the first time, the line honours…
With the Equator still 24 hours on the horizon, Spindrift 2 is more than a day behind the Jules Verne Trophy holder. But if the last five days have been particularly difficult on board and unproductive in terms of their…
After a long wait of almost exactly a day and a half, Paul Clitheroe and his crew on the TP52 Balance could finally celebrate. When it became obvious that the S&S34 Quickpoint Azzurro had fallen victim to the calm that…
The Clipper Race fleet has arrived into Hobart after finishing famous Australian offshore classic the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race (RSHYR). Wendy ‘Wendo’ Tuck, the first female Australian skipper in the history of the Clipper Race, clinched first place in…
Shane Kearns was in the front seat to win the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race all throughout yesterday and late in the evening, sailing the smallest and second oldest boat in the fleet. But Mother Nature intervened and Quikpoint Azzurro…
A snap decision made two months prior to the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has resulted in a brilliant second place overall and Division 4 win for Gery Trentesaux and his crew, four months after the Frenchman won the Rolex…
The Indian team from Western Australia arrived at Constitution Dock just before 11am this morning to a roaring crowd of fans. It was a tough race for the Carkeek 47, who today became the 12th boat to finish the race….
How tough yachts and crews are is often tested in the Wyndham Harbour Melbourne to Hobart Westcoaster, arguably Australia’s most challenging ocean yacht race down Tassie’s rugged West Coast. This year crews are again digging deep for a different level…
The final fight to the finish line of Race 5, the 71st Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race (RSHYR), is going to be tight and tactical for the Clipper 70s as they battle for the podium and points in forecast light…
Paul Clitheroe is one of just a dozen yachts to have finished the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, and since doing so, has been in the box seat to claim overall honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s…
French sailor Eric de Turckheim dominated racing in Cowes Week off the English coast this year in his 40ft Archambault, Teasing Machine. Although De Turckheim welcomed the success, he still wished to fulfil a dream he held since he was…
Hobart currently has South Easterly winds of 15 – 20 knots so the fleet will pop spinnakers as soon as they round Bruny Island for a fast run up Storm Bay and the River Derwent to the finish line off…
Wendy ‘Wendo’ Tuck, the first female Australian skipper in the history of the Clipper Race, has clinched first place in the Clipper 70 class of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Wendy, the Sydney skipper of Da Nang – Viet Nam, managed…
For 27 hours, Paul Clitheroe and his Balance crew have been the clubhouse leaders in the race for the Tattersall's Cup, the prized trophy for first on handicap in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. One by one they have…
Two Rolex Sydney Hobart retirees are the latest Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race additions bringing the fleet to 42 boats as close to 450 sailors set up for the favourable forecast suggesting a quick trip north after the 1pm start…
Former Olympic sailor Gary Smith yesterday skilfully steered The Fork in the Road to a fourth consecutive and fifth total line honours in the ninth Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race, describing it as ‘a real boat race.’ The Fork in…
Based on current standings, both major trophies for the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart will be going offshore. The French-owned Archambault 13 Teasing Machine held a commanding nine hour lead in the IRC handicap stakes his morning at 6am AEDT. She…
“This is a hard race. I have sailed around the world two and a half times and I thought I had seen it all but this is one hard body of water” was how Comanche’s skipper Ken Read summed it…
For Ragamuffin and Rambler it has been a frustrating night – they should have arrived in Hobart in darkness – instead they wallowed under the black gloom of Tasman Island, waiting for the sun to rise. The golden rule of…
Syd Fisher’s Ragamuffin 100 crossed the finish line in Hobart at 8:47:30 this morning to take second on line honours. It was then that we learnt about the challenges that the Australian team faced during their almost three days at…
PECCADILLO (Charles Meredith) crossed the finish line at the mouth of the Mersey River Devonport at 2:17:03 this morning to take Line Honours in the blue-water classic Melbourne to Devonport ocean yacht race. TEVAKE II (Angus Fletcher) finished shortly after,…
The fleet continues to make good progress towards Hobart achieving decent speeds Tuesday morning local time across Bass Strait after some teams struggled in light winds close to the south east Australian coast. However progress over the next 24 hours…
American George David brought his 88 foot Rambler from the other side of the world to win the Rolex Sydney Hobart – not line honours – he wanted to win outright and made it clear in Sydney when he spoke…
Matt Allen entered both his JV52 and his Carkeek 60 into the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and chose the best boat according to the forecast just days before the start. Ahead of the race Ichi Ban navigator Will Oxley…
Just minutes separated Rupert Henry’s JV62, Chinese Whisper, and Matt Allen’s Carkeek 60, Ichi Ban, as they sailed their way up the Derwent and across the finish line of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The two boats had been…
If you are looking for a lesson in how to sail a Sydney Hobart Race – what to do, what not to do – look no further than the Italian maestro Giovanni Soldini, skipper of Volvo 70 Maserati. Just forget…
Newport RI, December 28, 2015: Registration for the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race opens on January 12, 2016 through the race website, BermudaRace.com. “We are certainly excited to open entries for the 50th Bermuda Race,” said race chairman A.J. Evans. The…
The NSW TP52 Balance, the appropriately named yacht of financial guru Paul Clitheroe, is the leader for overall honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and now has to await the arrival of two European yachts tomorrow, her immediate…
After sailing into a windless hole near Three Hummock Island and Hunter Island yesterday afternoon in the Wyndham Harbour Melbourne to Hobart Westcoaster, EXTASEA (Paul Buchholz) was passed by ONE FOR THE ROAD (Gary Prestedge). Paul Buccholz is a seasoned…
At 8. Jim and Kristy Clarke's 100ft supermaxi Comanche became the first American yacht to take line honours in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race since Larry Ellison's Sayonara in 1998. She is almost certainly the first yacht to retire from…
MERLION (Eddie MacKacKevicius) the Beneteau 40.7 from Hobsons Bay Yacht Club has taken the line honours lead in the Rudder Cup Melbourne to Devonport race. ONE FOR THE ROAD (Gary Prestedge) the Archambault 40 from Royal Yacht Club of Victoria…
After a decade of, by Rolex Sydney-Hobart standards, comparatively benign weather the race has returned with a vengeance to its classic persona. The mean southerly that made life hell for sailors off the NSW south coast last night is at…
The lead has changed twice this morning in the Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race as fleet sails slowly down the Tasmanian East Coast, spread out from south of St Helens Point north to Musselroe Bay. Light winds overnight enabled Peter…
With the expected drop in wind speed in central Bass Strait this morning, boat speeds have also dropped considerably in the blue-water classic Wyndham Harbour Melbourne to Hobart Westcoaster and Rudder Cup Melbourne to Devonport ocean yacht races. All yachts…
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