• 27 Dec, 2017 10:25:00 PM

Wild Oats XI first across the line in battle on Derwent

Mark Richards has steered the Oatley family’s Wild Oats XI to her ninth Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours victory after a protracted battle with Jim Cooney’s LDV Comanche on Tasmania’s River Derwent this evening, reclaiming the race record Anthony Bell’s Perpetual LOYAL took from her last year.

• 27 Dec, 2017 05:12:00 PM

Three yachts out today

There have now been three retirements in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with the Sydney yacht Wots Next the latest out, with broken rudder bearings. She is abeam of Mallacoota on the Victorian coast. There are no further details.

• 27 Dec, 2017 01:50:00 PM

Hobart Race Village now open!

The Hobart Race Village continues to grow in stature with its position firmly cemented as the ultimate celebration location for the conclusion of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

• 27 Dec, 2017 12:51:00 PM

Record on the cards, but …

In the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the two leading supermaxis LDV Comanche and Wild Oats XI are heading to a race record finish in the Derwent tonight.

• 27 Dec, 2017 10:32:00 AM

German boat Rockall the first retirement

The 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has its first retirement, the German TP52 Rockall, which suffered a broken rudder 60 nm south of Eden this morning and is making for Eden, apparently with police assistance.

• 27 Dec, 2017 07:02:00 AM

LDV Comanche leads tight pack into Bass Strait

As expected, Jim Cooney’s LDV Comanche is leading the line honours race on the first morning of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart, making the most of a strong north-easterly wind in Bass Strait and well ahead of the race record set by Perpetual LOYAL (now racing as InfoTrack) last year.

• 26 Dec, 2017 10:45:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2017 start highlights

Re-live the start of the race with the highlights package

• 26 Dec, 2017 05:31:00 PM

Photographs from Day 1 of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart

• 26 Dec, 2017 05:04:00 PM

Black Jack makes most of cards she was dealt

Black Jack, the light weather flyer of the four 100 foot super maxis racing for line honours in the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart took full advantage of the light, easterly conditions on Sydney Harbour this afternoon to lead her contemporaries out of the Heads.

• 26 Dec, 2017 02:21:00 PM

2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart - live start broadcast replay

A replay of the Channel 7 live broadcast of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race