Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2025

It’s confirmed - Ichi Ban is No. 1 – Matt Allen wins Rolex Sydney Hobart

29 Dec, 2017 02:11:00 PM

It’s confirmed - Ichi Ban is No. 1 – Matt Allen wins Rolex Sydney Hobart

Matt Allen’s new TP52 Ichi Ban has been declared the overall winner of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2017 – and Allen, the president of Australian Sailing, can hardly believe it.

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The Derwent: the goal that becomes a gaol

29 Dec, 2017 02:00:00 PM

The Derwent: the goal that becomes a gaol

The Derwent takes prisoners. You can be on your best behaviour but this river doesn't believe in early release, for anyone.

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29 Dec, 2017 07:35:00 AM

Still a long race for some

This 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart may have been a spectacularly fast one for the quick yachts at the front of the fleet, but there is still a long way to go for the rest of the fleet - at dawn this morning, three were struggling up a completely windless Derwent River while the remaining 63 competing yachts were strung along the Tasmanian coast.

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29 Dec, 2017 06:33:00 AM

So that's what V70s do

When he stepped aboard his new V70 Wizard with his brother Peter just days before the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart, American David Askew had never stepped onto one of these legendary ocean warhorses before. Now he has seen just what they can do.

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LDV Comanche secures line honours and the race record

28 Dec, 2017 07:47:00 PM

LDV Comanche secures line honours and the race record

Sport is often determined by fine margins and yachting is no exception. After a phenomenal contest between Jim Cooney’s LDV Comanche and the Oatley family’s Wild Oats XI over the full 628nm of the Rolex Sydney Hobart concluded yesterday in the Derwent River, the line honours title for first to finish was eventually decided today in the protest room. An incident between the two 100-footers, shortly after the start, was adjudged in favour of LDV Comanche.

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LDV Comanche awarded line honours after protest

28 Dec, 2017 07:08:00 PM

LDV Comanche awarded line honours after protest

LDV Comanche has been awarded Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race line honours after its protest against Wild Oats XI was heard by the international jury late this afternoon.

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This was a crew busting race, pay respect

28 Dec, 2017 03:11:00 PM

This was a crew busting race, pay respect

Though overall honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race may have eluded them this time, there is a mutual respect among the skippers of the gun fleet of 50-footers for the battle in which they engaged. For it is in this group, each yacht perhaps half the size of a supermaxi, that the reward for excellence and seamanship finds its reward.

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28 Dec, 2017 09:59:00 AM

Matt Allen waits to see if he is No. 1

Matt Allen docked his brand new TP52 at Kings Pier at 9.00am this morning, acknowledging he will now have to play the waiting game to see if his Ichi Ban (No 1 in Japanese) is indeed No. 1 in the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

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28 Dec, 2017 07:37:00 AM

Seven home – five inside record time

All was quiet this morning at Hobart’s famous Constitution Dock, seven big boats home, five inside last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart race record, last year’s overall winner, Wizard (then sailing as Giacomo) and Wild Oats X, the little sister of Wild Oats XI the latest two arrivals in the early hours of this morning.

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28 Dec, 2017 03:11:00 AM

RSHYR News: fun in hindsight

No-one else has ever done their first Rolex Sydney Hobart, their first proper ocean race really, on board their very own 100-foot super-maxi. And done it inside the record time set by that very same boat a year ago. Christian Beck has done both now, riding InfoTrack into 4th place across the line, around an hour inside the record time set by what was then called Perpetual Loyal.

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