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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 in Hobart, Tasmania. The race distance is approximately 630 nautical miles (1,170 km). [1] The race is run in conjunction with the Royal Yacht Club of ...
Australian 18 Footers League. Double Bay. Balmain Sailing Club. Balmain. 33°51′06″S 151°10′40″E / 33.85167°S 151.17778°E / -33.85167; 151.17778. Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Rushcutters Bay. 33°52′27″S 151°14′2″E / 33.87417°S 151.23389°E / -33.87417; 151.23389. Drummoyne Sailing Club.
Canberra Yacht Club in Winter. Club house on Lake Burley Griffin. The Canberra Yacht Club was formed in 1959 in anticipation of the creation of Lake Burley Griffin in the centre of Canberra, Australia, which happened in the 1960s. It is located on the shore in the suburb of Yarralumla. Its members have competed in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia ( CYCA) was established in 1944 in Darling Point, inner-east Sydney. The club is known as one of Australia 's premier yacht clubs, and is acknowledged as one of the leaders in ocean racing in the country. The club hosts the annual Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race . In 2019, the CYCA celebrated the 75th ...
Score: 4–3. ← 1980. 1987 →. The 1983 America's Cup was a 12-metre class yacht racing series which pitted the defending New York Yacht Club 's Liberty against the Royal Perth Yacht Club 's challenger, Australia II. The September 1983 series of match races was won by Australia II, with four race wins to three, in the first successful ...
Founded. 1853. Location. Williamstown, Victoria, Australia. Website. Royal Yacht Club of Victoria. The Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV) is one of Australia's oldest yacht clubs. It is based in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown, not far from where the Yarra River flows into Port Phillip Bay .
Australia II was designed by Ben Lexcen, built by Steve Ward, owned by Alan Bond and skippered by John Bertrand. [2] Lexcen's Australia II design featured a reduced waterline length and a short chord winged keel which gave the boat a significant advantage in manoeuvrability and heeling moment (lower ballast centre of gravity) but it was a significant disadvantage in choppy seas.
The 2021 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 76th annual running of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, hosted by Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and sponsored by Rolex. [2] It began on Sydney Harbour at 13:00 on 26 December 2021, 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.