XS Moment from Pittwater is new to the race and so is her owner Ray Hudson, but he has done plenty of offshore races with her, including numerous Sydney Gold Coasts, in which they finished 20^th overall and third in IRC Division 2 this year and 33^rd overall the previous year. Locally, the pair finished 10^th overall in the 2016 Pittwater Coffs, then finished third overall in the Production X Yachts class at the Sydney Harbour Regatta that March. This November, they were 12^th overall in the Cabbage Tree Island Race, a qualifier for the Sydney Hobart. XS Moment is a luxury 44 foot racer/cruiser constructed in Denmark, the first of a new series for X Yachts.