Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2025

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Bureau’s early Xmas gift to small yachts

22 Dec, 2014 12:46:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Bureau’s early Xmas gift to small yachts

The 117 yachts in the Rolex Sydney Hobart will face an early test this year, with the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecasting a sharp 20 to 25 knot southerly change on Boxing Day afternoon not long after the start.

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Soldiering On in the 70th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

22 Dec, 2014 12:00:00 PM

Soldiering On in the 70th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

There’s no doubt the returned soldiers aboard Spirit of Mateship and Southern Excellence II are the kind of blokes you want around if things went horribly wrong – and for that matter, you want them for the good stuff too – because they are top blokes.

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Rolex Sydney Hobart: Roberts Focused on Victory

22 Dec, 2014 09:00:00 AM

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Roberts Focused on Victory

Just a few days out from Boxing Day and the buzz around the docks of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is that Ray Roberts is looking like a very good bet to win this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart.

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21 Dec, 2014 10:30:00 AM

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Salt Water Therapy

Warwick Sherman never really wanted to do the Rolex Sydney Hobart, he’d done plenty of ocean racing, but bashing his way across Bass Strait to get to Tasmania just didn’t grab him. Perversely, all that changed when he was diagnosed with cancer.

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Yachts of Yesteryear to celebrate 70th Sydney Hobart in Parade of Sail

21 Dec, 2014 09:00:00 AM

Yachts of Yesteryear to celebrate 70th Sydney Hobart in Parade of Sail

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has received overwhelming support for its Parade of Sail, to be held prior to the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on December 26, and staged in honour of the 70th Hobart and the Club’s 70th anniversary.

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Rolex Sydney Hobart – One Race Many Nations

20 Dec, 2014 05:30:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart – One Race Many Nations

Australia’s premier ocean race has always had an international flavour; Captain Illingworth, who started the whole Sydney Hobart thing was, after all, an Englishman.

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20 Dec, 2014 11:15:00 AM

Waypoints of the Rolex Sydney Hobart

Montague Island The island is off the NSW south coast, 155 nautical miles south of Sydney’s South Head and about 6 nm south-east of Narooma. Its lighthouse, built of granite quarried on the island, began operating in 1881. The island is a protected nature reserve.

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20 Dec, 2014 10:15:00 AM

Rolex Sydney Hobart Title Defence

Hundreds of Australian sailors spend their lives trying to win the Tattersall’s Cup; year after year they declare in Hobart that this was their last Rolex Sydney Hobart - definitely - for sure. But 12 months later you spot them again at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, tinkering with their pride and joy and nervously eying off Boxing Day.

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Rob and Scarlet’s Big Adventure before Rolex Sydney Hobart

20 Dec, 2014 08:30:00 AM

Rob and Scarlet’s Big Adventure before Rolex Sydney Hobart

Ocean sailors are daft; why else would you think it a good idea to take a modern ocean racing yacht around the world on her own bottom to compete in lots and lots of races, some thousands of miles long?

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