Sleek 100-foot super maxi yacht COMANCHE arrives in Australia to
Sydney Hobart super maxi’s secret weapon
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Australia, NSW, Sydney Harbour, Maxi Yacht AAPT preparing for the start
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Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is organised by Cruising Yacht Club of Australia with the co-operation of Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. ... Reichel Pugh Maxi 72: Verite 4411: 4411: NSW: J99: Whisper AUS13: AUS13: NSW: JV 62: White Noise SM1245: SM1245: VIC: M.A.T 1245: Willow ITA70: ITA70: NSW: Volvo Open 70: Wings 07: 07: NSW: Dehler 46 ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is a classic long ocean race open to anyone who owns a yacht that qualifies for this challenging event and which meets all the safety requirements of a Category 1 safety race. ... (mainsail and one foresail genoa or jibs) but several of the maxi yachts with a big fore-triangle (between the foredeck, the ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2023: Inside the biggest and smallest boats
One of four 100-foot super maxis in this year's Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, it's 7.85 metres wide with a 47-metre mast, making it the largest and fastest of the 103 boats entered. The yacht ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual oceanic yacht racing event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, ... In addition, in a race of the length of the Sydney-Hobart weather conditions after the maxi yachts have finished can often determine whether they will win on handicap - if the winds become more ...
Two super maxis continue to lead the Sydney to Hobart race as storms
Updated 12:41 PM PDT, December 26, 2023. SYDNEY (AP) — The Sydney to Hobart fleet was reduced to 98 boats after overall honors contender Maritimo 52 was one of two retirements on a stormy first night of racing. Rival super maxis Andoo Comanche and LawConnect remained neck-and-neck in the early hours of Wednesday as the fleet began to pass ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
Wild Thing 100 will be the newest 100 ft maxi to be launched when it makes its debut in this year's race. Owner Grant Wharrington has extended Stefan Racing, a Botin 80, which he sailed to fourth over the line in 2021 and 6th last year. Under the extension, the yacht has been rebranded as Wild Thing 100. Wharrington took Line Honours in 2003 ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Super maxis survive in tough conditions
Hong Kong super maxi yacht SHK Scallywag led the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet imperiously out of Sydney Harbour, attracting primetime media coverage, then settled into a "battle of the giants" with two other 100ft super maxis, Black Jack and LawConnect. Round one clearly went to SHK Scallywag's skipper, David Witt, who opted to ...
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Hobart, 31 December 2023 - The 78th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will go down in history as a relentlessly demanding test of determination, as well as physical and mental resilience. The record will highlight a tooth and nail fight to the finish for Line Honours, and a Tasmanian boat joining the select few to have achieved two overall wins in the event's near eight decades.
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2021
Winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race overall after time correction and securing the coveted Tattersall Cup guarantees a place in yachting folklore. ... (30.5 metre) Maxi yachts has produced epic contests in the battle to be first across the finish line. The race record currently stands at 33 hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds, set by ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Maxi magic masks Asian connections
Andoo Comanche, the radical French-designed maxi yacht chartered from a private Singapore owner, took line honours, and Geoff Hill's Santa Cruz 72 Antipodes, sailing for RHKYC, were among 109 starters in the year-end Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Next up is the Rolex China Sea Race on April 5. Words: Bruce Maxwell
The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Has a Boat-Size Absence
By Kimball Livingston. Dec. 23, 2023. When the hundred-foot Maxi yachts hit the starting line for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, one absence will loom as a powerful presence. There will be no ...
News Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
The 64th Rolex Sydney Hobart has been a milestone one with a high-quality fleet of 100 boats including eleven overseas entries, an unexpectedly close line honours battle at the head of the fleet between the maxis Wild Oats XI and Skandia and four of the sensationally fast downwind TP52s filling the first four placings overall on handicap. Bob Oatley's canting-keeled design Reichel/Pugh 98 Wild ...
Fast and dramatic start to 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
The 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race got off to a fast and dramatic start today. The assisting downwind conditions once the boats turned right at the Heads could see the first boat cross the finish line as early as tomorrow night. ... International Maxi Association Legal Headquarters: c/o BfB Société Fiduciaire Bourquin frères et Béran ...
Sydney to Hobart yacht race: everything you need to know
Sydney to Hobart yacht race: everything you need to know. Sydney Harbour will shine on Boxing Day as tens of thousands gather on shores, boats and down the coast to watch more than 100 magnificent ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
A state-of-the-art maxi on the international circuit she was the yacht to beat. Won line honours in the 1979 Sydney Hobart (from 147 boats), her only Hobart under Kahlbetzer's ownership, as spent the majority of time competing overseas, including taking line honours in the 1980 Newport Bermuda Race. Syd Fischer bought her in 1984, but retired ...
Sydney Hobart Race: Everything you need to know
The race record now stands at 1 day 9 hours 15 minutes and 24 seconds and was set by the 100ft super-maxi Comanche in 2017. ... The 77th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race started on 26 December, its ...
Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race: veteran sailors Sven Runow and Ed
How size doesn't count in the Sydney to Hobart race. One crews on a maxi, the other skippers a 36-footer, but Sven Runow and Ed Psaltis share the same mad passion for Australia's most ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet set for downwind start
The maxi yachts should get off to a flying start in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, based on the NSW Bureau of Meteorology [BOM]'s long range weather forecast. Northerly winds are expected for Monday's start, according to the forecast presented today at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, organisers of the 628 nautical mile race. ...
51 seconds apart after 628 nautical miles: LawConnect edges Comanche in
Skallywag, left, and Comanche sail close during the start of the Sydney Hobart yacht race in Sydney, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. The 630-nautical mile race has more than 100 yachts starting in the race to the island state of Tasmania. (Salty Dog/CYCA via AP)
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
The three super maxis in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet will step up their preparations with the inaugural Income Asset Management Australian Maxi Championship. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia will host the inaugural Income Asset Management Australian Maxi Championship from 3-7 December 2021.
Brindabella (yacht)
Brindabella is a maxi yacht. It won line honours in the 1997 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as well as breaking the race record for a conventionally ballasted yacht in 1999.. Described as "Australia's most famous maxi" and "The people's maxi". She was designed by Scott Jutson in 1993 under the IMS handicap system as a 75 foot maxi and later underwent structural changes including the addition of ...
Sailors met by family on dry land after yacht rescue in 'horrendous
The Nemesis passed through Sydney Heads just before 6pm, before the pair were met by family in Balmain half an hour later. Spirit of Mateship, which has raced in several Sydney to Hobart yacht ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
A gentle start was delivered to those competing in the 2024 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race. Fifty-one yachts assembled on the start line before the yachts crawled across Sydney Harbour and north up the Tasman Sea. Read Full Story. 14 Jun, 2024 02:15:00 PM.
Extremely lucky yacht duo 'glad to be back' on dry land
The Spirit of Mateship has competed in Sydney to Hobart races with wounded veterans as crew. ... Former prime minister Tony Abbott launched the boat in 2013 before the vessel's first Sydney to ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
Christian Beck's boat returns a hot prospect for line honours. She finished a close fourth over the line in 2018 after a protracted battle with Wild Oats XI, Black Jack and Comanche, in conditions not suited to her weight. In 2020, she took the line/overall double in the Cabbage Tree Island Race in light breeze, 18 minutes faster than Black ...
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The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is organised by Cruising Yacht Club of Australia with the co-operation of Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. ... Reichel Pugh Maxi 72: Verite 4411: 4411: NSW: J99: Whisper AUS13: AUS13: NSW: JV 62: White Noise SM1245: SM1245: VIC: M.A.T 1245: Willow ITA70: ITA70: NSW: Volvo Open 70: Wings 07: 07: NSW: Dehler 46 ...
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is a classic long ocean race open to anyone who owns a yacht that qualifies for this challenging event and which meets all the safety requirements of a Category 1 safety race. ... (mainsail and one foresail genoa or jibs) but several of the maxi yachts with a big fore-triangle (between the foredeck, the ...
One of four 100-foot super maxis in this year's Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, it's 7.85 metres wide with a 47-metre mast, making it the largest and fastest of the 103 boats entered. The yacht ...
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual oceanic yacht racing event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, ... In addition, in a race of the length of the Sydney-Hobart weather conditions after the maxi yachts have finished can often determine whether they will win on handicap - if the winds become more ...
Updated 12:41 PM PDT, December 26, 2023. SYDNEY (AP) — The Sydney to Hobart fleet was reduced to 98 boats after overall honors contender Maritimo 52 was one of two retirements on a stormy first night of racing. Rival super maxis Andoo Comanche and LawConnect remained neck-and-neck in the early hours of Wednesday as the fleet began to pass ...
Wild Thing 100 will be the newest 100 ft maxi to be launched when it makes its debut in this year's race. Owner Grant Wharrington has extended Stefan Racing, a Botin 80, which he sailed to fourth over the line in 2021 and 6th last year. Under the extension, the yacht has been rebranded as Wild Thing 100. Wharrington took Line Honours in 2003 ...
Hong Kong super maxi yacht SHK Scallywag led the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet imperiously out of Sydney Harbour, attracting primetime media coverage, then settled into a "battle of the giants" with two other 100ft super maxis, Black Jack and LawConnect. Round one clearly went to SHK Scallywag's skipper, David Witt, who opted to ...
Hobart, 31 December 2023 - The 78th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will go down in history as a relentlessly demanding test of determination, as well as physical and mental resilience. The record will highlight a tooth and nail fight to the finish for Line Honours, and a Tasmanian boat joining the select few to have achieved two overall wins in the event's near eight decades.
Winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race overall after time correction and securing the coveted Tattersall Cup guarantees a place in yachting folklore. ... (30.5 metre) Maxi yachts has produced epic contests in the battle to be first across the finish line. The race record currently stands at 33 hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds, set by ...
Andoo Comanche, the radical French-designed maxi yacht chartered from a private Singapore owner, took line honours, and Geoff Hill's Santa Cruz 72 Antipodes, sailing for RHKYC, were among 109 starters in the year-end Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Next up is the Rolex China Sea Race on April 5. Words: Bruce Maxwell
By Kimball Livingston. Dec. 23, 2023. When the hundred-foot Maxi yachts hit the starting line for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, one absence will loom as a powerful presence. There will be no ...
The 64th Rolex Sydney Hobart has been a milestone one with a high-quality fleet of 100 boats including eleven overseas entries, an unexpectedly close line honours battle at the head of the fleet between the maxis Wild Oats XI and Skandia and four of the sensationally fast downwind TP52s filling the first four placings overall on handicap. Bob Oatley's canting-keeled design Reichel/Pugh 98 Wild ...
The 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race got off to a fast and dramatic start today. The assisting downwind conditions once the boats turned right at the Heads could see the first boat cross the finish line as early as tomorrow night. ... International Maxi Association Legal Headquarters: c/o BfB Société Fiduciaire Bourquin frères et Béran ...
Sydney to Hobart yacht race: everything you need to know. Sydney Harbour will shine on Boxing Day as tens of thousands gather on shores, boats and down the coast to watch more than 100 magnificent ...
A state-of-the-art maxi on the international circuit she was the yacht to beat. Won line honours in the 1979 Sydney Hobart (from 147 boats), her only Hobart under Kahlbetzer's ownership, as spent the majority of time competing overseas, including taking line honours in the 1980 Newport Bermuda Race. Syd Fischer bought her in 1984, but retired ...
The race record now stands at 1 day 9 hours 15 minutes and 24 seconds and was set by the 100ft super-maxi Comanche in 2017. ... The 77th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race started on 26 December, its ...
How size doesn't count in the Sydney to Hobart race. One crews on a maxi, the other skippers a 36-footer, but Sven Runow and Ed Psaltis share the same mad passion for Australia's most ...
The maxi yachts should get off to a flying start in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, based on the NSW Bureau of Meteorology [BOM]'s long range weather forecast. Northerly winds are expected for Monday's start, according to the forecast presented today at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, organisers of the 628 nautical mile race. ...
Skallywag, left, and Comanche sail close during the start of the Sydney Hobart yacht race in Sydney, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. The 630-nautical mile race has more than 100 yachts starting in the race to the island state of Tasmania. (Salty Dog/CYCA via AP)
The three super maxis in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet will step up their preparations with the inaugural Income Asset Management Australian Maxi Championship. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia will host the inaugural Income Asset Management Australian Maxi Championship from 3-7 December 2021.
Brindabella is a maxi yacht. It won line honours in the 1997 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as well as breaking the race record for a conventionally ballasted yacht in 1999.. Described as "Australia's most famous maxi" and "The people's maxi". She was designed by Scott Jutson in 1993 under the IMS handicap system as a 75 foot maxi and later underwent structural changes including the addition of ...
The Nemesis passed through Sydney Heads just before 6pm, before the pair were met by family in Balmain half an hour later. Spirit of Mateship, which has raced in several Sydney to Hobart yacht ...
A gentle start was delivered to those competing in the 2024 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race. Fifty-one yachts assembled on the start line before the yachts crawled across Sydney Harbour and north up the Tasman Sea. Read Full Story. 14 Jun, 2024 02:15:00 PM.
The Spirit of Mateship has competed in Sydney to Hobart races with wounded veterans as crew. ... Former prime minister Tony Abbott launched the boat in 2013 before the vessel's first Sydney to ...
Christian Beck's boat returns a hot prospect for line honours. She finished a close fourth over the line in 2018 after a protracted battle with Wild Oats XI, Black Jack and Comanche, in conditions not suited to her weight. In 2020, she took the line/overall double in the Cabbage Tree Island Race in light breeze, 18 minutes faster than Black ...