• 28 Dec, 2009 03:30:00 PM

Tassie yachts heading for home

One of the biggest contingents of Tasmanian yachts left Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day racing to their home port of Hobart and for the eight yachts, getting to Sydney for the start of the 65th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was itself quite a feat.

• 28 Dec, 2009 01:32:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart Race Update 1 - 28 December 2009

• 28 Dec, 2009 08:14:00 AM

The Rich get Richer

The maxis leading the Rolex Sydney Harbour race fleet cleared a barrier of light air and calm in Bass Strait in the early hours of this morning to reach away on a new westerly flow at speeds of up to 20 knots.

• 27 Dec, 2009 11:14:00 PM

David Dickson, Investec Loyal

David Dickson, navigator of Investec Loyal, talking from the boat

• 27 Dec, 2009 11:02:00 PM

Mike Slade, ICAP Leopard

Mike Slade, Owner/Skipper of ICAP Leopard, talks by phone from the race course late in the afternoon of the 2nd day.

• 27 Dec, 2009 11:00:00 PM

Day 2 in photos

A collection of photos from 27 December 2009

• 27 Dec, 2009 08:30:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart Race Update 4 - 27 December 2009

• 27 Dec, 2009 08:30:00 PM

March of the 40 footers

A little known yacht named St Jude is leading the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on handicap late this afternoon; the Sydney 47 owned by Noel Cornish contested the race for the first time last year and was not expected to be at the front end of the star studded fleet.

• 27 Dec, 2009 07:52:00 PM

Stop-Start to Hobart

The Rolex Sydney Hobart race fleet leaders stalled and stopped in calms off the far south coast of New South Wales earlier today.

• 27 Dec, 2009 07:48:00 PM

Alfa Romeo in box seat rival skipper concedes, big test looms this evening

Mike Slade, the skipper of the British maxi ICAP Leopard concedes that Neville Crichton’s Alfa Romeo may have opened the winning lead in the dash for line honours in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.