Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2025

23 Feb, 2004 01:55:00 PM

Slight increase in the IRC speed limit for 2004 Race

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has announced a slight increase in the IRC (International Rule Club) upper speed limit, from 1.61 to 1.615, and the continuation of an absolute size limit of 30 metres length overall (LOA), effective for this year’s 60th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

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IRC to decide Tattersalls Cup in 60th Race

10 Feb, 2004 11:38:00 AM

IRC to decide Tattersalls Cup in 60th Race

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has announced that the Overall Winner of the 2004 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will be the boat that wins the IRC (International Rule Club) handicap category overall on corrected time.

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12 Jan, 2004 05:52:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart named Yahoo! site of the year

Traffic to the site was beyond expectations, with 569,626 user sessions and 5.6 million page hits, a 250% increase on 2002

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Only one yacht still to finish marathon voyage

01 Jan, 2004 08:30:00 AM

Only one yacht still to finish marathon voyage

The smallest yacht in the fleet, the 30-footer Katinka, remains the only yacht at sea in the 59th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race following the arrival just before 7.30 am today of another small boat, Berrimilla.

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Initiation rites: Doing your first Hobart and winning!

31 Dec, 2003 05:36:00 PM

Initiation rites: Doing your first Hobart and winning!

What do you do when you have one race for one divisional win. Do you quit with a perfect average or come back and try to do even better?

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There’s nothing Quixotic about this formula.

31 Dec, 2003 03:54:00 PM

There’s nothing Quixotic about this formula.

This 2003 Rolex Sydney Hobart has been a race for cruiser racers, boats that are comfortable as well as fast. Thory Gunnerson took his lovely timber cruiser Tilting at Windmills to New Zealand cruising, and came back to take second place in Australia's premier ocean race.

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Overall and Divisions winners and placegetters announced

31 Dec, 2003 12:29:00 PM

Overall and Divisions winners and placegetters announced

Yachts representing New South Wales, Victoria and Great Britain have won the handicap divisions of the 2003 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The results were officially announced at a dockside ceremony in Hobart this morning.

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31 Dec, 2003 12:00:00 PM

Creature comforts no handicap.

This year, the cruising yachts have made a comeback. Two of the top three boats are cruiser racers. Indeed, the best a purebred racer could manage was third.

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31 Dec, 2003 08:43:00 AM

Race still on for two yachts

The two boats look like having a slow day’s sailing ahead of them. The forecast is for light, variable winds from the northwest to the southwest, with a chance of a sea breeze this afternoon.

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Beneteau 40.7 First National Real Estate wins IMS and IRC

30 Dec, 2003 02:43:00 PM

Beneteau 40.7 First National Real Estate wins IMS and IRC

We were tactically sound. We didn’t go out on any limbs. A couple of boats took a flyer here and a flyer there and they paid short dividends but then the next flyer they took came back to bite them.

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