Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2025

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Spinnaker start – weather favours big boats

26 Dec, 2012 09:00:00 AM

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Spinnaker start – weather favours big boats

Skippers and navigators of the 77 yachts competing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart received their final weather briefing from the Bureau of Meteorology at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia this morning prior to heading out onto the Harbour.

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24 Dec, 2012 09:00:00 PM

Transition Time approaching

“Tough, challenging but always exciting,” is how Commodore Howard Piggott, of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, sums up the Rolex Sydney Hobart.

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Rolex Sydney Hobart: Weather points to bigger and faster

24 Dec, 2012 02:00:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Weather points to bigger and faster

“The winner of the 2012 Rolex Sydney Hobart is likely to come from a boat 60 foot or larger;” that is what Matt Allen, skipper of the Volvo 70 Ichi Ban, has taken away from the latest race forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology.

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24 Dec, 2012 11:00:00 AM

Tony Cable – this sailing life

On the eve of his record-setting 47th Rolex Sydney Hobart, Tony Cable is blunt: “You wouldn’t do multiple Hobarts if Hobart wasn’t at the end – just as you wouldn’t do multiple Gold Coast’s or Mooloolabas, would you?”

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Internationals ready to take on the Aussies

23 Dec, 2012 03:00:00 PM

Internationals ready to take on the Aussies

Even after 67 editions the Rolex Sydney Hobart continues to deliver something new; this year it’s a Lithuanian team who’ve sailed more than 12,000 nautical miles to compete.

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23 Dec, 2012 01:45:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Beginners luck?

Cancer can focus the mind wonderfully - things you always had in mind assume a new urgency – and at 58, Warwick Sherman had long had a Rolex Sydney Hobart on his notional bucket list.

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22 Dec, 2012 04:00:00 PM

No escape – saltwater is in their DNA

There aren’t many people who have done more than 25 Hobarts, yet in the 2012 Rolex Sydney Hobart, there are three sailors who have not only passed the quarter century milestone, but are fast closing in on the records of their remarkable fathers.

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22 Dec, 2012 11:00:00 AM

Bigger will benefit as smaller pays

Four days out from the start of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart, the weather forecast is evolving, but it still looks grim for the smaller boats in the fleet - grimmer, if anything, than when the Bureau of Meteorology first showed us it’s long range forecast yesterday.

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21 Dec, 2012 11:00:00 AM

Dream Forecast for Big Boats

Rolex Sydney Hobart super maxi navigators are reveling in a dream forecast that’s promising record-breaking conditions, but an unpredictable westerly looming over Tasmania is leaving the race for the coveted Tattersall’s Cup wide open.

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20 Dec, 2012 03:00:00 PM

Kiwi Silver Medallist After Aussie Gold

Life hasn’t been the same for Kiwi 49er sailor Blair Tuke since the 23 year-old won a silver medal at the London Olympics, catapulting him from young-electrician-with-big-dreams to rock star with the world at his feet in his native Bay of Islands and beyond.

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