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The 2019 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 75th annual running of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. [2] Hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia sponsored by Rolex, it began on Sydney Harbour at 13:00 on 26 December 2019, before heading south for 628 nautical miles (1,163 km) via the Tasman Sea, Bass Strait, Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania.
InfoTrack leads the fleet through Sydney Heads and south to Hobart in ideal, if smoky conditions at the start of the 75th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in 2019. The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual oceanic yacht racing event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day and finishing ...
2019 12358 Comanche: Verdier VPLP 100 Supermaxi 30.46 Samantha Grant Jim Cooney 1:18:30:24 2020 Race cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. [2] 2021 525100 Black Jack: Reichel Pugh RP100 30.48 Mark Bradford 2:12:37:17 2022 CAY007 Andoo Comanche: Verdier VPLP 100 Supermaxi 30.50 John Winning, Jr. 1:11:56:48 [3] 2023 SYD 1000 LawConnect: Juan-K ...
Two people taking part in Australia's annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race have died in separate incidents, according to police. Both crew members died in separate incidents after being hit by a ...
Two sailors on separate boats have died in boom accidents two hours apart on a storm-ravaged first night of the annual Sydney to Hobart race, adding to the event's long history of deaths at sea.
More than 31 hours into the race, 79 yachts were still sailing and 25 had retired at sea or in port. LawConnect, which led out of Sydney Harbor on Thursday, was ahead in the race but still had about 30 nautical miles before reaching Hobart. It will mean an overnight finish for the leading yachts early Saturday.
Lindsay May will notch a first in the 78-year history of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race when he becomes the only sailor to start it 50 times — all of them consecutively — when it begins ...
The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is the premier blue water Australian race, starting on Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day every year. The race attracts a wide variety of boats from supermaxi yachts to small private boats. The race was first held in 1945. [3] The Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race starts on 27 January in Port Phillip Bay. Racers trace a ...