Built to the IOR rule that ruled supreme until the early 1990s, Inner Circle last headed south in 2014 and placed 23^rd overall. She has a long ocean racing history and was known as Short Circuit, Ferris Audio and Hills Antennas before becoming Inner Circle in time for the 50^th anniversary race in 1994 that produced a record 371 boats.

In 2008, after the yacht retired to Eden with damage, Darren Cooney remembered his late father saying what a great boat she had been – and that inspired him to return the boat to racing condition, after she had spent five years on her Lake Macquarie mooring.

The yacht’s best Hobart result was 11^th in 1988 when she was Ferris Audio. Cooney contested the 2025 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast race and finished 34^th overall.