Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2025

Supermaxi Wild Oats XI struck by lightning on eve of Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

19 Dec, 2017 04:15:00 PM

Supermaxi Wild Oats XI struck by lightning on eve of Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

The Oatley family’s champion Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, is at the centre of a frenetic repair schedule after it was struck by lightning at the weekend.

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19 Dec, 2017 02:09:00 PM

The heat is on

With just a week to go to the start of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart, the pressure is building on everyone to get their boats fully prepared, the crew working as a team and every last wrinkle ironed out, especially for the 28 international boats.

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Two Rolex watches are good – three would be better

18 Dec, 2017 03:46:00 PM

Two Rolex watches are good – three would be better

Pay attention - it all gets a bit complicated - Bob Steel won the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart in 2008 on his TP52 Quest, and he had already won the race once before, in 2002, on a different boat also named Quest.

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17 Dec, 2017 05:08:00 PM

Mark Hipgrave - Mister Lucky - or not?

When the start cannon fires on Boxing Day, Queensland entries headed south will number 11 in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, but one is a little more unusual than the rest – a boat full of people who stand out because they are known as solo sailors.

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16 Dec, 2017 12:59:00 PM

A race of second chances

In 2012, at the age of 58, well known Cruising Yacht Club of Australia offshore racer Warwick Sherman contested his first Sydney Hobart - it was on his bucket list after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin mantle cell lymphoma in June 2010.

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You can win the race at both ends of the fleet

16 Dec, 2017 10:49:00 AM

You can win the race at both ends of the fleet

“Line Honours is all that matters,” so declared the man who will steer one of the very last boats to cross the finish line in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this year, as he has done six times previously.

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There are a lot of ways to get to Hobart

15 Dec, 2017 02:53:00 PM

There are a lot of ways to get to Hobart

Yes, I know you can fly there for starters, but in the last week of the year for a surprising number of people, the only way to get to the Apple Isle of Tasmania is by racing boat, but even then, there are an amazing number of options in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 628 nautical mile race.

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Jim Cooney adds LDV Comanche to his fleet

15 Dec, 2017 10:08:00 AM

Jim Cooney adds LDV Comanche to his fleet

The 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours victor, LDV Comanche, was yesterday purchased by Sydney’s Jim Cooney from its American owner Jim Clark, meaning there will be a gathering of four Australian owned super maxis on the start line of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s classic when it starts on Boxing Day.

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14 Dec, 2017 05:08:00 PM

The siren call of Hobart

This year Tony Ellis will become just the second person ever to compete in 50 Sydney Hobart races when the fleet departs the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia on Boxing Day – and he will be just one Hobart shy of Tony Cable, who has raced south a record 51 times.

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