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Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2023: Inside the biggest and smallest boats
Andoo Comanche won line honours in last year's Sydney to Hobart. A 30-foot boat with a 12-metre mast, Niksen, owned and skippered by Marc Michel, is small but mighty. Its top speed is 23 knots ...
Over 100 boats ranging from supermaxis - typically boats over 21 metres long - to smaller yachts are contending in the 78th Sydney to Hobart. The smallest boats in the fleet are a pair of 30 ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
Wild Thing 100 will be the newest 100 ft maxi to be launched when it makes its debut in this year's race. Owner Grant Wharrington has extended Stefan Racing, a Botin 80, which he sailed to fourth over the line in 2021 and 6th last year. Under the extension, the yacht has been rebranded as Wild Thing 100. Wharrington took Line Honours in 2003 ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is a classic long ocean race open to anyone who owns a yacht that qualifies for this challenging event and which meets all the safety requirements of a Category 1 safety race. In the earliest years of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, all the yachts were built from timber - heavy displacement cutters, sloops ...
2023 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The 2023 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, sponsored by Rolex and hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, was the 78th annual running of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.It began on Sydney Harbour at 1 pm on Boxing Day (26 December 2023), before heading south for 628 nautical miles (1,163 km) through the Tasman Sea, Bass Strait, Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the ...
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Hobart, 31 December 2023 - The 78th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will go down in history as a relentlessly demanding test of determination, as well as physical and mental resilience. The record will highlight a tooth and nail fight to the finish for Line Honours, and a Tasmanian boat joining the select few to have achieved two overall wins in the event's near eight decades.
Yachts to watch in the 2023 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Yachts to watch in the 2023 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. By Jasper Bruce. Updated December 24 2023 - 3:05pm, first published 3:01pm. Andoo Comanche prepares for the start of 2022's race, at which ...
The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Has a Boat-Size Absence
Dec. 23, 2023. When the hundred-foot Maxi yachts hit the starting line for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, one absence will loom as a powerful presence. There will be no Wild Oats XI, and Wild ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2023: Everything You Need To Know
December 07, 2023. The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an event like no other. An Australian summer tradition, Combining the thrill of sailing, the beauty of the open sea, and the spirit of competition. This annual race, organised by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, kicks off on Boxing Day in Sydney and culminates in Hobart on the 2nd of ...
2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
The 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race starts in Sydney Harbour at 1pm (AEDT) on Tuesday 26 December. This is the 78th edition of the Rolex Sydney Hobart. The inaugural race was conducted in 1945 and has run every year since, apart from 2020, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race is 628 nautical miles.
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
Navigator Chris Lewis shares his view of the maxi yacht LawConnect's thrilling win in the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you live coverage from the finish of the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. We now take you to Hobart, Tasmania, where two of the race's 100-foot supermaxis are ghosting ...
A competitive fleet set for 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Published on: 25th Dec, 2023. A diverse fleet, including multiple former winners, will take on the 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day. One hundred and thirteen boats are entered for the 78th running of Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's famous race, which begins tomorrow on Sydney Harbour at 1 PM (Tuesday 26 December).
2023 SOLAS Big Boat Challenge
Nine of the best performing maxi racing yachts in Australia competed in ideal sailing conditions with an 18kt NE breeze on Sydney Harbour this afternoon in the fifth and final race of the 2023 Raymarine Australian Maxi Championship. The SOLAS Big Boat Challenge, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), has become a popular ...
2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Long Range Weather Forecast
18/12/2023. Uncertain forecast makes for a tense lead in to Rolex Sydney Hobart. Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race crews face a tense week preparing for myriad race scenarios due the 'significant uncertainty' of the long range weather forecast each year. In its long range forecast presented on Monday at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart, Tasmania. The race distance is approximately 630 nautical miles (1,170 km). [1] The race is run in conjunction with the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, and is widely ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
2023 RSHYR UPDATE Saturday 0835hrs. At this morning, just 30 yachts from 103 starters had finished the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with 16 yachts retired from the race. MWF Kayle, the Lyons 54 owned by the Making Waves Foundation and Will Vicars' pretty Hoek TC78, Oroton Drumfire, were among the ...
Super-maxi yachts duel it out on day 2 of Sydney to Hobart
Super-maxis Andoo Comanche and LawConnect yesterday dueled for the lead as the pair of 100-foot (30.5m) yachts separated themselves from the rest of the Sydney to Hobart fleet. Wild weather on the first night ended any hopes of a race record, and eight of 103 starting boats had withdrawn 24 hours into the race.
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2023 RSHYR UPDATE Saturday 0835hrs. At this morning, just 30 yachts from 103 starters had finished the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with 16 yachts retired from the race. MWF Kayle, the Lyons 54 owned by the Making Waves Foundation and Will Vicars' pretty Hoek TC78, Oroton Drumfire, were among the ...
2023 Australian Maxi Championship
It is open to eligible race boats of either 60-79 feet (Mini Maxis) or 80-100 feet (Maxis). This Championship is the penultimate event before the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and is a showcase and final competition for the larger boats in its fleet. Entries are now open. 2023 Notice of Race
Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet set for downwind start
The maxi yachts should get off to a flying start in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, based on the NSW Bureau of Meteorology [BOM]'s long range weather forecast. Northerly winds are expected for Monday's start, according to the forecast presented today at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, organisers of the 628 nautical mile race.
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2023
The 78 th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is the final race in the six-race 2023/24 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore and is considered one of the world's greatest offshore races. In the lead up to the race, the CYCA will also be hosting the 2023 Australian Maxi Championship (1 - 5 December) for the maxi and mini maxis who will be ...
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Andoo Comanche won line honours in last year's Sydney to Hobart. A 30-foot boat with a 12-metre mast, Niksen, owned and skippered by Marc Michel, is small but mighty. Its top speed is 23 knots ...
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Over 100 boats ranging from supermaxis - typically boats over 21 metres long - to smaller yachts are contending in the 78th Sydney to Hobart. The smallest boats in the fleet are a pair of 30 ...
Wild Thing 100 will be the newest 100 ft maxi to be launched when it makes its debut in this year's race. Owner Grant Wharrington has extended Stefan Racing, a Botin 80, which he sailed to fourth over the line in 2021 and 6th last year. Under the extension, the yacht has been rebranded as Wild Thing 100. Wharrington took Line Honours in 2003 ...
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is a classic long ocean race open to anyone who owns a yacht that qualifies for this challenging event and which meets all the safety requirements of a Category 1 safety race. In the earliest years of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, all the yachts were built from timber - heavy displacement cutters, sloops ...
The 2023 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, sponsored by Rolex and hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, was the 78th annual running of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.It began on Sydney Harbour at 1 pm on Boxing Day (26 December 2023), before heading south for 628 nautical miles (1,163 km) through the Tasman Sea, Bass Strait, Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the ...
Hobart, 31 December 2023 - The 78th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will go down in history as a relentlessly demanding test of determination, as well as physical and mental resilience. The record will highlight a tooth and nail fight to the finish for Line Honours, and a Tasmanian boat joining the select few to have achieved two overall wins in the event's near eight decades.
Yachts to watch in the 2023 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. By Jasper Bruce. Updated December 24 2023 - 3:05pm, first published 3:01pm. Andoo Comanche prepares for the start of 2022's race, at which ...
Dec. 23, 2023. When the hundred-foot Maxi yachts hit the starting line for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, one absence will loom as a powerful presence. There will be no Wild Oats XI, and Wild ...
December 07, 2023. The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an event like no other. An Australian summer tradition, Combining the thrill of sailing, the beauty of the open sea, and the spirit of competition. This annual race, organised by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, kicks off on Boxing Day in Sydney and culminates in Hobart on the 2nd of ...
The 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race starts in Sydney Harbour at 1pm (AEDT) on Tuesday 26 December. This is the 78th edition of the Rolex Sydney Hobart. The inaugural race was conducted in 1945 and has run every year since, apart from 2020, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race is 628 nautical miles.
Navigator Chris Lewis shares his view of the maxi yacht LawConnect's thrilling win in the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you live coverage from the finish of the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. We now take you to Hobart, Tasmania, where two of the race's 100-foot supermaxis are ghosting ...
Published on: 25th Dec, 2023. A diverse fleet, including multiple former winners, will take on the 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day. One hundred and thirteen boats are entered for the 78th running of Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's famous race, which begins tomorrow on Sydney Harbour at 1 PM (Tuesday 26 December).
Nine of the best performing maxi racing yachts in Australia competed in ideal sailing conditions with an 18kt NE breeze on Sydney Harbour this afternoon in the fifth and final race of the 2023 Raymarine Australian Maxi Championship. The SOLAS Big Boat Challenge, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), has become a popular ...
18/12/2023. Uncertain forecast makes for a tense lead in to Rolex Sydney Hobart. Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race crews face a tense week preparing for myriad race scenarios due the 'significant uncertainty' of the long range weather forecast each year. In its long range forecast presented on Monday at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia ...
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart, Tasmania. The race distance is approximately 630 nautical miles (1,170 km). [1] The race is run in conjunction with the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, and is widely ...
2023 RSHYR UPDATE Saturday 0835hrs. At this morning, just 30 yachts from 103 starters had finished the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with 16 yachts retired from the race. MWF Kayle, the Lyons 54 owned by the Making Waves Foundation and Will Vicars' pretty Hoek TC78, Oroton Drumfire, were among the ...
Super-maxis Andoo Comanche and LawConnect yesterday dueled for the lead as the pair of 100-foot (30.5m) yachts separated themselves from the rest of the Sydney to Hobart fleet. Wild weather on the first night ended any hopes of a race record, and eight of 103 starting boats had withdrawn 24 hours into the race.
2023 RSHYR UPDATE Saturday 0835hrs. At this morning, just 30 yachts from 103 starters had finished the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with 16 yachts retired from the race. MWF Kayle, the Lyons 54 owned by the Making Waves Foundation and Will Vicars' pretty Hoek TC78, Oroton Drumfire, were among the ...
It is open to eligible race boats of either 60-79 feet (Mini Maxis) or 80-100 feet (Maxis). This Championship is the penultimate event before the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and is a showcase and final competition for the larger boats in its fleet. Entries are now open. 2023 Notice of Race
The maxi yachts should get off to a flying start in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, based on the NSW Bureau of Meteorology [BOM]'s long range weather forecast. Northerly winds are expected for Monday's start, according to the forecast presented today at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, organisers of the 628 nautical mile race.
The 78 th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is the final race in the six-race 2023/24 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore and is considered one of the world's greatest offshore races. In the lead up to the race, the CYCA will also be hosting the 2023 Australian Maxi Championship (1 - 5 December) for the maxi and mini maxis who will be ...