• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 28 Dec, 2017 07:18:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2017 - Line Honours

Jim Cooney and LDV Comanche secured the line honours victory at the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart in a record time of one day, nine hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds, bettering by 4 hours 15 minutes, 56 seconds the previous benchmark set in 2016. Cooney and his crew were rewarded for their success in the southern hemisphere’s pre-eminent offshore race with the J.H. Illingworth Trophy and a Rolex timepiece.

• 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.

• 28 Dec, 2017 07:03:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart 2017 - Wild Oats XI

Video by Mountain High Media

• 28 Dec, 2017 05:20:00 PM

Rolex Sydney Hobart Finale Con Bressani

I dettagli dell'arrivo in volata tra Wild Oats XI e LDV Comanche; la Giuria che accoglie la protesta e assegna la vittoria a tavolino; le splendide e inedite immagini delle surfate con 30 nodi nello stretto di Bass, e il commento audio di Lorenzo Bressani di Mascalzone Latino

• 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.

• 28 Dec, 2017 12:13:00 PM

Photographs from Day 3 of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart

• 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.