This year Bacardi competes in her 28^th race to Hobart – it will be the most ever sailed by an individual yacht.  Finishing 53^rd overall and 11^th in division in 2011, the last time this Peterson 44 competed, she equalled the record 27 races set in 2007 by Phillips Foote Witchdoctor, a Davidson 44. 

Bacardi has only failed to finish once in her Hobart race history.  Sailed by her present owner in 2010, she dropped her rig and the deck disintegrated in heavy seas off the southern NSW coast. Bacardi’s best result in the Rolex Sydney Hobart was in 2006 when 35 year-old finished second overall to the classic yacht Love & War.

Skipper Martin Power raced his previous boat, a Swanson 36, Breakaway, to several divisional placings in the Rolex Sydney Hobart, including winning the Gordon Marshall Trophy in 1999.