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The 26-boat fleet in the Riversdale Estate Wines L2H (Launceston to Hobart) is finally underway, after the start line was moved offshore into Bass Strait due to extremely light winds in the Tamar River. The start had been scheduled to…
A spinnaker start gave a colourful send-off to the Melbourne to Hobart Race yacht today, along with the sister fleet that set off for Devonport at the same time, as all yachts raced together to Port Phillips Heads. Surprisingly, Hobart…
Mark Richards, the skipper of the supermaxi Wild Oats XI in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race, was despondent but not depressed late today after a tactical change of course was impacted by an unexpected change in wind direction,…
A fast start is expected for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this afternoon. However, soon after day turns to night, the fight for line and handicap honours is expected become one of strategy and tactics as winds weaken, according…
Conditions were perfect on Sydney Harbour for the start of the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race at 1pm on Boxing Day. A moderate 12-15 knot north-easter greeted the 85 starters under clear blue skies. High tide was at noon,…
Tamar Yacht Club and Derwent Sailing Squadron race officers are considering moving the starting line of tomorrow’s Riversdale Estate Wines L2H 2018 (Launceston to Hobart) yacht race nearer the mouth of the Tamar River, or even setting a line in…
Christian Beck will not get ahead of himself with celebrations at the finish of this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, no matter where his line honours contender InfoTrack places. The legal software supremo’s memory is still fresh of how…
Eric de Turckheim, with his La Rochelle and Lorient crew – plus one Italian, came to Australia to achieve a childhood dream – to win the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Having been so close…
Mark Richards, the skipper of line honours contender, Wild Oats XI, in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, which starts tomorrow, is expecting this year’s race to be as much a tough test of tactics as boat speed. The…
She is the smallest boat with the smallest budget and crew in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet this year, but according to her skipper, Reece Young, Gun Runner has a lot to offer in the Cruising Yacht Club…
Mark Griffith is not shy when it comes to staking his claim as a contender for overall victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Yacht owners can often be coy about their chances of winning the Cruising Yacht Club…
Tasmanian boats in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race have a bit of an advantage over their NSW rivals – their boats have to be prepared before they leave for Sydney – and then their skippers get to test the…
The number of international entrants in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is now 11, but delve in to their respective crew lists and a veritable league of nations emerges. A stand out for its cultural diversity is one…
Matthew Donald laughs when the scenario of his Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race entrant, Gweilo,appearing from her shroud of relative anonymity as a newcomer to the Australian racing scene to win the event overall is put to him. ‘Gweilo’ is…
With the Boxing Day start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fast approaching, registrations are open for what will be the blue water classic’s second year of partnership with Virtual Regatta, the world's leader in cutting-edge sailing simulation games….
After a troubled delivery from Adelaide to Melbourne, Stuart Johnson’s Sydney 38 Audacious has had to withdraw from the Rudder Cup, Melbourne to Devonport ocean yacht race. The crew is very disappointed but also accepts that this happens with sailing….
When multi-millionaires enter their supermaxis in the Rolex Sydney Hobart, they throw money around like confetti. Professional boat managers handle every aspect of the preparation and during the race, well-paid rock star sailors and professional navigators get the boat to…
Today is the longest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere so the sun has the largest declination to the south for all using a sextant to navigate. It also often marks a period of unsettled weather but all…
Whilst most of us nurse hangovers, New Year’s Day in Zanzibar sees 22 teams, made up of 66 sailors, set sail in one of the World’s most basic, yet exciting, races. The sixth edition of the Kraken Cup (previously called…
Wild Oats XI, the most successful yacht in the long history of the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, will start in the classic on Boxing Day with the most efficient sail plan it has carried since first competing in…
Early entries for the 2019 RORC Caribbean 600 reveal a stunning fleet of famous professional teams taking part alongside passionate corinthian crews. Famed for spectacular sailing conditions on an intricate and mesmerizing course, the 11th edition of the RORC Caribbean…
You may not see them – and in some cases you may not know them – but when the cannons are fired signalling 10 minutes to the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart, five minutes to the start and then…
20 December 2018 (Sydney, Australia) – While preparing for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the all-female professional sailing team, Ocean Respect Racing, joined forces with Clean Up Australia, not-for-profit Australian environmental organization, to raise awareness for how rubbish finds…
Five very different overall contenders for the Rolex Sydney Hobart’s prized Tattersall Cup rated their chances for winning the 628 nautical mile race at a press conference at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia today. After 41 races to the…
The last time Daryl Wislang won the Volvo Ocean Race, he finished the year by taking out line honours in the famed Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. That will be his ambition again when he jumps on board Comanche for next…
Les Goodridge, owner and skipper of Wax Lyrical – a Danish design X 50 cruiser/racer – and a longtime member of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA), shares his passion of sailing and racing the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race…
In an early forecast prediction, the Bureau of Meteorology’s Simon Louis told a selection of navigators at a Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race press conference at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia today to expect a little of everything in…
Dutchman Mark Slats has taken a further 154 miles out French Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede over the past seven days, reducing the gap to 794 miles with 4,300 miles still to run before the winner returns to Les…
German yachtsman Freddy Boehnert has sailed over 18,000 nautical miles on his X-50 Lunatix, just to contest the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – unusual – as European owners normally ship their boats to…
Intense preparation is the name of the game as realisation dawns on owners and crews that only nine days remain before the start of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Top of the…
This year’s 26-boat fleet for the Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart Race certainly can boast some class, including two past overall winners of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and a runner-up in the famous blue-water classic. The heydays of…
The 40th anniversary Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe proved to be a memorable edition, with big crowds turning out in Saint Malo to see the record fleet of 123 boats in six divisions start the 3,542-nautical mile race to Pointe-à-Pitre. Huge…
In Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia last night crews from ARC+ route of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers gathered on the green of IGY Marina to mark the end of their Atlantic adventure that began in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria…
The IMOCA class held its annual general meeting on Tuesday 11th December in Paris. This gathering enabled the class to present its appraisal of what was a very positive 2018 season coming to a climax with an outstanding edition of…
As French race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede works to protect his shrinking lead over second-placed Dutch rival Mark Slats, the focus is once more on a violent storm in the Southern Ocean that looks likely to overtake fourth-placed American/Hungarian…
LOS ANGELES, CA – Race managers at the Transpacific Yacht Club are pleased to announce that next July's 50th biennial edition of the 2225-mile Transpac race from Los Angeles to Honolulu has set a new record of 82 entries to…
Franco Niggeler's Swiss Cookson 50 Kuka3, skippered by Roberto Chuny Bermúdez de Castro has been announced as the overall winner of the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race. Franco Niggeler was presented with the RORC Transatlantic Race Trophy by Grenadian Minister for…
Despite smart crew work from last year's Line Honours winner Peter Harburg’s Black Jack, it was only a matter of moments before the Oatley Family’s Wild Oats XI exerted her authority to take Line Honours in the 2018 Grinders Coffee…
When the gun fires off Portsea Pier to start the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, at 1200 hours on Thursday 27 December, all eyes will be on a Tasmanian boat and crew with line…
Day two of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) Trophy Series saw another beautiful day on Sydney Harbour in a building 10-15 knot nor ‘east sea breeze. After her IRC Division 1 win on day one of the series,…
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