This will be the first Sydney-Hobart, for the skipper and the first for his Adams 12, although it has raced in the Sydney to Mooloolaba race twice, the Brisbane to Gladstone and Hamilton Island Race Week (notching up a second in the PHF division). Owner/skipper Ramsay is a chief engineer in the Merchant Navy, a seafarer for the past 20 years — and obviously a football fan with the Sydney Swans his team.