• 29 Dec, 2009 11:29:00 AM

Merit - more from the first afternoon

An editied version of some vision from the boat during the first afternoon

• 29 Dec, 2009 11:02:00 AM

Rapture - Day 3

Rapture at speed in Bass Strait during the afternoon of Day 3

• 29 Dec, 2009 10:59:00 AM

Merit - pre-start manouvres

• 29 Dec, 2009 01:48:00 AM

Wild Oats XI arrives in Alfa Romeo’s wake

Mark Richards, the skipper of Wild Oats XI, the four-time line honours winner and record holder of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, vowed to return next year after finishing second to arch rival and near sistership, the New Zealand supermaxi Alfa Romeo, just after midnight this morning.

• 29 Dec, 2009 12:54:00 AM

Alfa Gets the Gun at 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

After sailing a near perfect tactical race in extremely difficult conditions, with extremes from a testing 25-knot southerly, with a bumpy seaway through the first night, to a calm in the notoriously rough and windy Bass Strait, Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo was first to finish in the 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, with an elapsed time of two days, 9hrs, 2mins, 10secs for the 628nm course.

• 29 Dec, 2009 12:52:00 AM

Jubilant Crichton glad it’s all over

A remarkably relaxed and fresh looking Neville Crichton steered his 100 foot supermaxi Alfa Romeo into Constitution Dock this evening after taking line honours in the 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

• 28 Dec, 2009 11:57:00 PM

Tom Addis, Navigator, Alfa Romeo

Tom Addis, navigator of Line Honours boat Alfa Romeo, interviewed shortly after finishing

• 28 Dec, 2009 11:30:00 PM

Day 3 in photos

A collection of photos from 28 December 2009

• 28 Dec, 2009 11:27:00 PM

Neville Crichton, Alfa Romeo

Neville Crichton, Owner/Skipper of Alfa Romeo, shortly after arriving first in Hobert in the 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart

• 28 Dec, 2009 10:52:00 PM

Merit - the first afternoon

Vision from Merit on the first afternoon of the race