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  • Overall Winner Rosebud's 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart Overall Winner Rosebud's 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart
    • 17 Oct, 2013 08:15:00 AM

    Overall Winner Rosebud's 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart

    US Farr STP 65 Rosebud yacht won the 2007 race and only BoatsOnTV had a camera on-board. Here is our fantastic complete report on the race.

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  • Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2007 - Spirit of Yachting film Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2007 - Spirit of Yachting film
    • 04 Feb, 2008 09:26:00 PM

    Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2007 - Spirit of Yachting film

    The CYCA's principal sponsor Rolex is pleased to announce that the 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race - The Spirit of Yachting is now available for viewing.

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  • Day 7 in photos Day 7 in photos
    • 01 Jan, 2008 08:00:00 PM

    Day 7 in photos

    A collection of photos from 1 January 2008

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  • Rolex Sydney Hobart Race winners collect their trophies Rolex Sydney Hobart Race winners collect their trophies
    • 01 Jan, 2008 04:01:00 PM

    Rolex Sydney Hobart Race winners collect their trophies

    Bill Ratcliff, from Sydney, became the seventh member of an exclusive group of sailors who have competed in 40 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Races, the achievement recognised with the presentation of his 40-year medallion.

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  • Divisional winners announced dockside Divisional winners announced dockside
    • 31 Dec, 2007 02:10:00 PM

    Divisional winners announced dockside

    Skippered by Bruce Foye, a former overall winner, The Goat’s race almost ended when they hit a submerged rock at Tasman Island in the dark in a 20 knot southerly, and broke a third of their keel off.

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  • The final curtain The final curtain
    • 31 Dec, 2007 10:03:00 AM

    The final curtain

    Just after midnight the last yacht, Capriccio of Rhu, with the indomitable Michele Colenso at the helm, crossed the finish line to bring down the curtain on the Rolex Sydney Hobart ocean racing classic for another year.

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  • Race fleet enjoys downwind ride to Hobart; last to arrive overnight Race fleet enjoys downwind ride to Hobart; last to arrive overnight
    • 30 Dec, 2007 05:42:00 PM

    Race fleet enjoys downwind ride to Hobart; last to arrive overnight

    Ray Roberts' Cookson 50, Quantum Racing has won IRC Division A for canting-keeled yachts over Matt Allen's Jones-designed Volvo 70 Ichi Ban with the Farr 98 maxi City Index Leopard (Mike Slade) in third.

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  • Living to sail, sailing to live Living to sail, sailing to live
    • 30 Dec, 2007 05:33:00 PM

    Living to sail, sailing to live

    “The two weeks after my mastectomy while I waited for the results were hell I wrote my everything-to-do-before-I-die list. When they told me that they had got all the cancer I looked at the list and thought do I file it, or do I start doing it?”

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    • 30 Dec, 2007 04:09:00 PM

    Through their eyes

    News Limited photographer Ian “Mains” Mainsbridge has covered every Sydney Hobart since 1964, which makes this year’s Rolex race his 44th, the same number as record-holding sailors the late John “the Fish” Bennetto, Lou Abrahams and Tony Cable.

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  • Lou may mean it this time Lou may mean it this time
    • 30 Dec, 2007 12:25:00 PM

    Lou may mean it this time

    After equalling the record 44 races and an intense, strategic race among the 10 strong Sydney 38 one design fleet in the Rolex Sydney Hobart, 80 year old Victorian yachtsman Lou Abrahams today declared he would not compete again.

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