Brindabella

Brindabella held the open and conventionally ballasted race record for this race for 13 years until it was broken by Wild Oats XI and Loki respectively in 2012. She still holds the record of 1 day, 20 hours, 46 minutes, 33 seconds for a conventionally ballasted yacht for the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, which she set in 1999 after finishing second on line to the water ballasted record breaker, Nokia and won line honours in the 1997 Hobart– all with original owner George Snow. Jim Cooney purchased the maxi in 2010 and campaigns her in the CYCA’s offshore and short ocean races.

In this year’s Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, she was 19th boat to finish across the line and was seventh in the PHS Division. She finished 17th on line in last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart as well as securing fourth in PHS Division 1. The Scott Jutson design still holds the record for the Sydney Noumea, Sydney Mooloolaba and Sydney Wollongong races, all of which were discontinued, but the latter two were re-introduced this year – Wollongong after a 13 year hiatus and Mooloolaba after leaving the yachting calendar a couple of times.

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