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In August 2020, Jules Hall started floating the idea of entering the Rolex Sydney Hobart’s inaugural Two-Handed Division with his sailing mate, Jan ‘Clogs’ Scholten. Along with 16 other entries, the pair made history when they started the race on…
The number one racing boat in Australia was declared overall winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race for a third time, Matt Allen’s TP52, Ichi Ban, this morning announced the 2021 winner, so will yet again have its name…
Sydney sailor Felicity Nelson sailed across the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race finish line at 07:34:34am this morning but there was no major celebration in recognition of her milestone 25th Sydney Hobart, as she doesn’t like the fuss. Nelson has…
Tasmanians John Saul and Rob Gough etched their place in Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race history this evening by winning line honours in the inaugural Two-Handed division. The pair, sailing their Akilaria RC2 designed by Frenchman, Marc Lombard, finished the…
Guillaume Leroux’s Class 40 Lord Jiminy has claimed line honours in a challenging Melbourne to Hobart yacht race that was beset by range of strong and light winds, before ending with a perfect afternoon sea breeze in Hobart’s Derwent River….
Friday 31 December 2021 Following protests by Ichi Ban versus Celestial (including Request for Redress) and the Race Committee versus Celestial, held at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania this evening. Date of incident: 27-0130 28 December, 2021 Ichi Ban v Celestial FACTS FOUND: 1. Ichi Ban was beyond…
Shane Kearns is still confident that his boat White Bay 6 Azzurro can produce an upset and claim overall victory in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. At 2.20pm, his S&S 34 was 12 nautical miles south of Cape…
Grant Chipperfield and Peter Dowdney are among the 10 remaining Two-Handed Division entries still racing in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this morning, all toughing it out in what has not been an easy race by any means….
When Jen Linkova recalled her experience almost halfway into the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race yesterday evening, the Sydneysider’s words had the air of an ocean racing rookie. However, her remarks about her highs and lows in the 76th…
Wednesday 29 December 2021 – 2200 hours The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), the organising authority for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, has advised that two protests have been lodged against the yacht Celestial and will be heard before an…
Stefan Racing skipper Grant Wharington believes the future of his boat that placed fourth on line honours in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race today is as an overall contender. Wharington was speaking after the bright pink and rainbowed…
No sooner had the fight for line honours in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race been won and lost by the three 100-footers in the race early this morning, attention turned towards the main event – that being, the…
Smallest boat Vertigo wins the Melbourne to Devonport Yacht Race. Royal yacht Club of Victoria will be cheering for one of their own this morning. Tim Olding’s Summit 35 Vertigo floated over the finish line in Devonport at 05:08 this…
As the Melbourne to Hobart fleet suffer with fickle light winds. Seven of the Melbourne to Hobart fleet made the unusual choice to round King Island to the west, most of the them have now made it back to the…
David Witt could not hide his frustration for again missing out on his first Line Honours win in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after he skippered SHK Scallywag 100 to third place. Black Jack took Line Honours in the Cruising…
Christian Beck’s opening line when LawConnect docked in Hobart, having crossed the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race finish line in second place early this morning, was: “I seriously don’t ever want to do that first day and night again…
After Mark Bradford steered Black Jack to line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this morning, he said he knew “pretty much after the start” that the boat would win. The confident remark from Bradford to a brilliant…
Black Jack sailed across the Castray Esplanade finish line in Hobart at 01.37.17 this morning, claiming line honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, in the time of two days 12 hours 37…
The crew on the Botin 80, Stefan Racing, have kept the 100-footers in their sights since the start cannon fired for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The Queensland boat is skippered…
The line honours winner of the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race should be known early tomorrow morning, so long as the wind does not shut down on the Derwent River. At 4pm today, the three 100-footers – Black Jack, LawConnect and SHK…
As the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet was hit by a southerly on the first night, Adrienne Cahalan, in a crew of 16, spared a thought for those around her and particularly the crews in the Two-Handed Division….
Overall victory in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is hotting up and “up for grabs”, according to Michael Bellingham, navigator of one of the main contenders, Whisper. Bellingham says the fate of those crews in the Cruising Yacht…
As the sun set on the first day of racing, tacticians onboard Melbourne Hobart yachts began making defining race decision. The critical question for all tacticians was which way to sail past Bass Strait King Island, do we sail the…
Peter Dowdney is one of Australia’s most experienced yachtsmen, who should easily get by without a good hot meal while sailing in an event like the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. But even if the thought had passed his mind…
A spectacular fight for line honours up the Derwent River in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race may be on the cards, says Cruising Yacht Club of Australia Commodore, Noel Cornish. At 5pm today, Peter Harburg’s Black Jack was well into the…
Make or break decision to be made for Hobart fleet The combined Melbourne to Hobart and Melbourne to Devonport fleets had a very civilized start time of 14:30 today in the vicinity of Portsea Pier, allowing for excellent spectator viewing….
The toll of strong southerly winds and rough seas on the first night of the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race continued to mount, with 24 boats forced to retire by this morning. A thrilling see-saw battle was still developing…
Strong winds and high seas have handed the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet a battering on the first night, with 12 entries being forced to withdraw. Tonight, the forecasted strong southerly that reached up to 30 knots, along with…
Moneypenny, Blink and Mako are early casualties of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht race this evening, a strong southerly of up to 30 knots on a heavy seaway has taken its toll this evening. All…
SHK Scallywag 100 skipper David Witt was reminded of how tenuous fortune can be in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, when a furling disaster after exiting the heads cost him the race lead on line honours following a spectacular…
Bruce Gould will this year have the honour of firing the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race replica start cannon at 1pm on Boxing Day to send the 90-strong fleet off and on its way. As Sydney Hobart custom has dictated…
Crews in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race were eagerly bracing themselves this morning for a classic tough start with a forecast southerly set to send them on their way. The Bureau of Meteorology of NSW today confirmed the…
The 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet stands at 91 following the withdrawal today of Jim Cooney’s Volvo Open 70, Willow, and the Infiniti 46R, Maverick 49, owned by Quentin Stewart. Cooney advised the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) that…
On the sail from South Australia to Sydney on board the Northshore 38 Inukshuk, Rob Large (60) and Chris Riggs (63) calculated that they have a century of sailing experience between them. That should come in handy for the sailors,…
Yachts will set sail from Portsea on the afternoon of December 27 to Hobart and Devonport. Preparation for long distance ocean races, particularly those that start in Bass Strait, is onerous in any year. In 2021, with multiple lockdowns and…
Zac Heyes’ first memory of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is of the Boxing Day start, trying to see his father Paul on television somewhere in the fleet. This year, Heyes,18, will finally get to see his dad close up and…
The forecast of strong southerly winds and rough seas may be a concern for many in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race for the Boxing Day start; but not for Christian Beck. The owner/skipper of the 100-foot LawConnect, one of the…
Victoria’s yacht racing community will be out in force on Boxing Day for the Cock of the Bay yacht race. After a year of not sailing and in fact not even being able to visit the bay, or your boat,…
Ed Psaltis planned to stop sailing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after 35 starts; he tried, but it didn’t work, and nearing his 39th participation, his enthusiasm for the 628 nautical mile race – and his passion to win…
Seasickness is caused by the interaction between the organs of balance, the visual and tactile systems and the brain. While being thrown around a boat, our brain cannot reconcile the messages it receives. It is over-stimulated by conflicting information caused…
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