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The 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart has been conducted in benign conditions and has been free of the controversy that has often dogged the race in recent years. It has taken until the third day for the protest to be lodged….
A slow night on the race track in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, some of the bulk of the fleet struggling to get five knots from their boats, but good news is on the way, the Bureau of Meteorology…
Despite some innovative tactics by Scott Robinson, skipper of How Bizarre, Angus Fletcher’s Radford 13.7 Tevake II has won the Rudder Cup, the trophy for overall winner of the ORCV Melbourne to Devonport Race. Tevake II also took line honours,…
The ORCV Melbourne to Hobart Race continues to be a fascinating affair, with the two leaders in sight of each other off the west coast of Tasmania. But it was another frustrating night for all competitors, with light winds making…
Vertigo, from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, has taken the handicap lead in this year’s Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart yacht race. The summit 35, owned by Tim Olding, has taken the lead from the Mumm 36 Heatwave…
Enigma is a Beneteau First 47.7 owned by Jason Bond, the current Commodore of the Manly Yacht Club. This yacht was one of the last Beneteau 47.7s to leave the factory, making her the youngest and heaviest in the class. Formerly…
Australian sailing legend Michael Coxon has long been linked with the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race through his role as the master tactician on many successful super maxi yachts. But his imprint on this year’s 75th running of the Cruising…
Jim Cooney's 100ft supermaxi Comanche has taken line honours in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The big red boat crossed the finish line off Battery Point at 7.30.24 am after an agonising drift over the final few miles….
Guillaume Leroux’s Class 40 Lord Jiminy led the ORCV Melbourne to Hobart Race fleet out of Port Phillip Bay yesterday but over night she has been challenged by Douglas Lithgow’s Archambault 40 Soiree Bleu. At 9am, the two boats were…
Hobart yachtsman Matthew Keal’s Mumm 36 Heatwave is heating up this year’s Launceston to Hobart yacht race as she chases down the current line honours front runners Gary Smith in Fork in the Road and Robert Green’s 50-footer Dream. Heatwave…
After stalling in a patch of light winds off the north-west coast of Tasmania, the leaders in the ORCV Melbourne to Devonport Race have picked up speed and are aiming for a cold beer at Mersey Yacht Club this evening….
Comanche is on track to take line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart. At 5am on Saturday 28th, she had rounded Cape Raoul doing 17 knots, but was expected to slow considerably as she enters the river. At the finish…
The five supermaxis at the head of the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet were “parked” off the southern NSW coast at 5am this morning (December 27). Jim Cooney’s Comanche still leads the race for line honours but she is just 1.5nm…
The super maxis were still dancing a tango in the battle for line honours leadership in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this afternoon as the fleet sailed on towards night two. As the super maxis were about to begin…
An impressive fleet of 19 yachts has crossed the start at Beauty Point for the 13th year of the Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart yacht race. Weather conditions for the 285 nautical mile race are favourable for both line…
The Mornington Peninsula turned on perfect weather for the two Victorian fleets which are racing to Tasmania this year. Under blue skies and with 15 knots of wind coming from the south-south-west, the combined fleets picked up speed under spinnaker…
The 72-foot URM was barely spoken of when it came to who could figure in the race for line and overall honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race before it began on Thursday afternoon. But as the Cruising Yacht…
An edge-of-the-seat finale in the battle for line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart is a real prospect, with all five super maxis within contention as sunset fell over the fleet tonight. At 1900 hours, the 2017 line honours winner…
Skippers, navigators and crews will all have to be on their game at 1pm today when the gun gets the 157 strong Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet under way. Four start lines, a strong outgoing tide, a massive spectator fleet on…
Comanche, the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours winner and race record holder, fought back brilliantly from a slow start in this year’s 75th running of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s race by taking the lead soon after exiting Sydney…
They have one of the most important jobs of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – without them, the 628-nautical-mile race would not even get under way. It takes a trio of official starters to formally carry out the three-stage…
The sight of award-winning Australian actor Kerry Armstrong on the 62-footer Magic Miles in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart should leave observers thinking they are seeing double. Why? Because double is what they will see. Armstrong will be joined as…
Jeanneau has announced that world-renowned American yachtsman and North Sails President Ken Read will campaign the new Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300 in the double-handed division of the 2020 Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race along with navigator Suzy Leech. The…
The line honours race in the Rolex Sydney Hobart is tipped to match last year’s thriller when the first four boats were within sight of each other going up the Derwent River to the finish. The Cruising Yacht Club of…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 75th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is pleased to announce that 22 teams will take part in the Southern Cross Cup, which has been reintroduced this year in conjunction with the 2019 Rolex Sydney…
For Bruce Watson, the owner/skipper of 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart entrant Imalizard, memories of the 2017 race should be painful, with his campaign thwarted by the loss of the Welbourn 12’s mast. However, the setback, which required Watson and his crew…
At the 1pm start of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 75th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day, history will be made when Rebecca Connor and her boat, Wonderland, take part in the race for the first time….
Eight international crews are entered in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart, each aiming to take home a trophy or two. Judging by some of their boats and the talent in the crews, all are within reach of…
A strong field of 16 will represent Queensland in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 628-nautical-mile 75th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race come Boxing Day, among them Mark Jacobsen’s Banter and Craig Salter’s Dream. Dream, an Inglis 38, has not…
Five contenders to win the famous Tattersall Cup, awarded to the winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race each year, were mulling over their chances this morning, trying to decide which boats would be favoured to win the 75th…
A 60-year-old timber Sparkman and Stephens design that has never competed in a major bluewater race south of the equator is primed to join the 75th anniversary Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet setting off from Sydney Harbour at 1pm on December…
The reputation of the Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart (L2H) Yacht Race as a tactical race with lots of turning points, tides and currents to juggle is what has drawn Victorian team Vertigo to the start line for the first time….
The 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race marks the historic 75th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – and fans from near and far will this year be able to take on the journey no matter where they are! Virtual Regatta and…
It might have thrown others for a loop, but the sale of their former boat, and the arrival of their new boat not expected until February, has not stopped Paul Glynn and Mattijs Willenborg from racing in the Cruising Yacht…
During training for the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart, master photographer Andrea Francolini went for a ride on supermaxi Comanche and took these images. Click on the dots above to see all 10 action shots.
Naval Group yacht crew members, Pierre Louiset and Steven Patriarca know only too well what the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race takes. With forceful winds, freezing waters, a lack of sleep and an incredible physical challenge, these crew members are…
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecasts the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will start in clear and smoke haze-free conditions. Gabrielle Woodhouse, from the BOM, said the forecast on Boxing Day of north to north easterly winds should make for…
Put a top-notch crew with an equally as credentialed boat, and the result should impress. Of course, in a race like the Rolex Sydney Hobart, where a crew’s fate hangs in the balance of so many variables, ‘should’ is a…
The 12th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's RORC Caribbean 600 will start on Monday 24th February 2020 from Antigua. Already the early entries are nudging towards an eclectic mix of 50 boats, with competition expected to be as…
When the fleet of 157 yachts set sail in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 75th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day, Western Australia will be well-represented with seven entries; a handful have run the track before and…
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