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The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event, which was first sailed in 1945. The race takes place over 5 days and attracts over 100 yachts of all types and sizes.
The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in December is an icon of Australia’s summer sport. The course covers a distance of 628 nautical miles from Sydney Harbour to the East coast of Australia, Bass Strait, the Tasmanian east coast, Storm Bay, Derwent River and finally Battery Point in Hobart, Tasmania.
Line Honours goes to the first yacht to cross the finishing line. The Overall Winner is determined by each yacht’s finish time adjusted by several factors. As a result, the fastest boat is often not the Overall Winner.
| See also | Race Winners by Year | | | |
Overall Winner = ow Line Honour = lh Time is shown as DD:HH:MM:SS Days:Hours:Minutes (and Seconds where available)
| TIME | YACHT NAME | DESIGNER | |
| 45th Race — 1989 — 126 starting fleet size | |||
| 3:02:18:45 ow 3:06:21 lh | Ultimate Challenge Drumbeat | Lou Abrahams, VIC Alan Bond, WA | Ed Dubois, England David Pedrick, USA |
| 44th Race — 1988 — 119 starting fleet size | |||
| 3:18:20:35 ow 3:15:29 lh | Illusion Ragamuffin | Gino Knezic, VIC Syd Fischer, NSW | Laurie Davidson, NZ German Frers, Argentina |
| 43th Race — 1987 — 154 starting fleet size | |||
| 2:21:58:08 ow 2:21:58 lh | Sovereign Sovereign | Bernard Lewis, NSW Bernard Lewis, NSW | David Pedrick, USA David Pedrick, USA |
| 42nd Race — 1986 — 121 starting fleet size | |||
| na ow 2:23:26 lh | Ex Tension Condor II | Tony Dunn, NSW Bob Bell, Bermuda | Laurie Davidson, NZ Ron Holland, NZ |
| 41st Race — 1985 — 179 starting fleet size | |||
| 3:04:34:37 ow 3:04:32 lh | Sagacious Apollo | Gary Appleby, NSW Jack Rooklyn, NSW | Bruce Farr, NZ-USA B Lexcen (B Miller), NSW |
| 40th Race — 1984 — 151 starting fleet size | |||
| 3:07:45:03 ow 3:11:21 lh | Indian Pacific New Zealand | J Eyles/G Heuchmer, NSW NZ Round the World Cmtee | Bruce Farr, NZ-USA Ron Holland, NZ |
| 39th Race — 1983 — 173 starting fleet size | |||
| 2:23:07:42 ow 3:00:50 lh | Challenge Condor | Lou Abrahams, VIC Bob Bell, Bermuda | Sparkman & Stephens USA Ron Holland, NZ |
| 38th Race — 1982 — 118 starting fleet size | |||
| 2:19:19:16 ow 3:00:59 lh | Scallywag Condor of Bermuda | Ray Johnston, NSW Bob Bell, Bermuda | Bruce Farr, NZ-USA John Sharp, UK |
| 37th Race — 1981 — 159 starting fleet size | |||
| 3:19:25:59 ow 3:22:30 lh | Zeus II Vengeance | Jim Dunstan, NSW Bernard Lewis, NSW | Peter Joubert, VIC Rolly Tasker, WA |
| 36th Race — 1980 — 102 starting fleet size | |||
| 2:18:45 ow 2:18:45 lh | New Zealand New Zealand | NZ Round the World Cmte NZ Round the World Cmte | Bruce Farr, NZ-USA Bruce Farr, NZ-USA |
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The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) was formed in 1944 and, despite its name, quickly became the leading exponent of ocean racing in Australia, at that time a little-known sport both here and elsewhere.
The CYCA began when some keen sailors started meeting informally in a photographic studio in Sydney. They soon acquired a boatshed in Rushcutters Bay and the rest, as they say, is history.
In 1945 a planned cruise to Hobart quickly turned into a race and the famous Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was born.
The race captured the imagination of the Australian public and it soon developed into an international yachting classic, attracting competitors from around the world.
With the CYCA conducting ocean races such as the Sydney Hobart Race since 1944, it has given the Club an expertise in race organisation and sea safety which is internationally acclaimed and widely emulated, some techniques being adapted world-wide following CYCA development.
These days, the CYCA is the ‘Club of choice’ for its more than 3,100 members, sailors and non-sailors, who enjoy the world-class facilities, the extensive sailing calendar and the social programme of member’s nights, prize giving and just relaxing in the Sydney Hobart Bar after a hard-fought race.
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Sydney Harbour and boat races have gone together for a long time. One writer, referring to 'what may fairly be termed the national sport of the colony, boat-racing', has left us with a lyrical description of a typical race day on the harbour:
… the glancing waters, fresh with the breeze that prevailed throughout the day, were studded by a thousand boats of every description, all freighted with life and gaiety; and round the harbour, from every point commanding a view of the course prescribed for the contesting boats, gay parties were assembled. [1]
This was 26 January, Foundation Day (also known as Anniversary Day, now called Australia Day) in 1848, and it showed the sense of adventure and exhilaration associated with yachting that has continued to be felt on Sydney Harbour.
The most famous race that has emerged is the Sydney to Hobart, as it is locally known. The race covers 628 nautical miles, starting from Sydney Harbour at 1 pm on Boxing Day (26 December), as it has done for over six decades. It has been held every year since 1945, with the inaugural fleet of nine yachts growing to a record 371 starters in the 50th race in 1994 – the largest fleet in the world for a Category 1 Ocean Race. In 2007, 82 yachts took part.
Postwar celebration
It all began in 1945, when a group of Sydney yachtsmen started planning for a post-World War II cruise to Hobart. Captain John Illingworth, who was a British Royal Navy officer stationed in Sydney at the time, had been a keen racing yachtsman in Britain before the war. He bought the 39-foot (11.8-metre) Rani , and joined them.
Because of weather conditions, the race is rarely without incident: in the first, several of the boats were briefly 'lost' during the race, among them Rani , although it did complete the course to take both 'line' (first over the line) and 'handicap' (corrected time for type of yacht) honours.
In 1984, a fleet of 150 yachts started, but 104 retired in the face of 'strong to gale force' southerly winds that battered the fleet. In 1993, there were 110 starters, but only 38 finished: crews abandoned two yachts as they sank, while the skipper of another was washed overboard and spent five hours in high seas. Luckily he was spotted by a search vessel and picked up by another yacht.
Stormy weather
In 1998 the race became a major disaster, when wild storms took their toll. The 115-yacht fleet sailed into the worst weather in the Sydney to Hobart's history. Six sailors died and just 44 yachts survived the gale-force winds and mountainous seas to finish the race. Two crew members died on the Launceston yacht Business Post Naiad , one by drowning, the other from a heart attack at the height of the storm. Several yachts were sent to the bottom and the biggest maritime rescue operation in Australia's history was mounted to pluck about 50 sailors from the sea. The storm highlighted some of the more foolhardy aspects of the race and led to a major review of race procedures. The ensuing enquiry made several recommendations for raising safety standards and requirements for competitors.
Despite such risks, the Sydney to Hobart is one of the great ocean races of the globe. No other annual yachting event in the world attracts such huge media coverage and popular attention.
The weather risks are not the only source of controversy. In 1990, a spokesman for the NSW Cancer Council ruffled a few cravats by claiming that the name and logo of the British yacht Rothmans breached the NSW voluntary advertising code – which stated that any vehicles propelled by petrol, diesel, gas, solar or wind power were banned from advertising cigarettes. This was in the midst of a war between tobacco companies – who were denying any adverse effects of smoking – and doctors and public health advocates, so it saw much heated debate. Gin-and-tonics were spilt at the bar.
While many of the same yachts compete around the world, and their focus is on the longer campaign to be best in Category 1, for many locals the Sydney to Hobart race is itself the point of it all. In its early years, the race was dominated by 'amateurs', many of whom were Wednesday and Saturday sailors for their local clubs. But over the years, the race has attracted the rich and famous, and many such Australians have been competitors: Alan Bond, and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch among them. The race has also attracted well-known sailors from overseas: Ted Turner, the founder of CNN cable network in the USA, for one, while Sir Edward Heath skippered Morning Cloud to victory in 1969, a year before he became Prime Minister of Britain.
Nowadays, major corporations sponsor both yachts and the race itself. Many yachts now have names like Alfa Romeo, Nokia, Skandia, Porsche, Hugo Boss, and Credit Index Leopard , while the race itself was, in 2008, the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, after the race's organiser, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, negotiated a multi-year sponsorship deal with the prominent international company Rolex.
The 2007 winner of line honours, Wild Oats XI, is only the second boat to win in three consecutive years; the first was Morna , in 1948. There have been several repeat winners, like 1975 and 1977 line honours winner Kialoa III.
Names can linger on, even though the boat itself has changed. There have been various famous Gretel s and Helsal s: the original Helsal took line honours in 1973 and set a race record, while Helsal IV competed in 2007.
On the other hand, some boats like Ragamuffin keep starting year after year: her placings in the Sydney to Hobart include a second in 1986 and two thirds, in 1985 and 1989 respectively. Among the fleet in 1994 were two yachts that had started in the inaugural race – Archina and Winston Churchill . Among the crews that year were two yachtsmen, Peter Luke and 'Boy' Messenger, by then in their 70s, who had sailed in 1945. Probably the 'grand old man' of the race is Syd Fischer, now in his eighties, who in 2008 competed in his fortieth Sydney to Hobart race.
Sail-world.com website, 'Rolex Sydney Hobart Milstone Race, Overall Winners Announced', http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Rolex-Sydney-Hobart-Milestone-Race,-Overall-Winners-Announced/52428, viewed 20 February 2009
Official Site of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/default.asp, viewed 20 February 2009
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia website, http://www.cyca.com.au/, viewed 20 February 2009
[1] BC Peck, Recollections of Sydney, John Mortimer, London, 1850, pp 150–1
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The Rolex Sydney Hobart race is one of the most famous yacht races in the world hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in conjunction with the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart, Tasmania.
The Sydney Hobart is considered one of the big 600 milers and is a key offshore race in the calendar for any number of big boat campaigns, sitting alongside other races of a similar length including the Fastnet Race , The Caribbean 600 and the Middle Sea Race .
The inaugural edition of the 630 nautical mile race in 1945 had nine starters. John Illingworth’s Rani , built at Speers Point was the winner, taking six days, 14 hours and 22 minutes.
Records fell for many years in the early days of the race, but in 1975 Kialoa from the United States set a new course record that would stand for fully 21 years before being beaten by the German yacht Morning Glory in 1996, and then only by a dramatic 29 minutes.
The race record now stands at 1 day 9 hours 15 minutes and 24 seconds and was set by the 100ft super-maxi Comanche in 2017.
Comanche is one of only a handful of yachts to have taken line honours in the race on multiple occasions, having now crossed the finish line into Hobart first on three separate occasions.
But the boat most associated with race wins is another super-maxi, Wild Oats XI which has won the race a hugely impressive nine times, including a four race winning streak between 2004-2008.
The Sydney Hobart is renowned for tough weather, with the Bass Strait, and the waters of the Pacific Ocean immediately to its east often experiencing high winds and difficult seas.
Even though the race is held in the Australian summer, southerly buster storms often make the it cold, bumpy, and very challenging for the crew. It is typical for a considerable number of yachts to retire, often at Eden on the New South Wales south coast, the last sheltered harbour before Flinders Island.
The 1998 Sydney Hobart was marred by tragedy when, during an exceptionally strong storm (which had similar strength winds to a lower-category hurricane), five boats sank and six people died.
Of the 115 boats that started, only 44 made it to Hobart. As a result, the crew eligibility rules were tightened, requiring a higher minimum age and experience.
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This is a list of Winners for the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race since 1945. [1] Line honours winners. Year Sail number Yacht State/country Yacht type LOA (Metres) Skipper Elapsed time d:hh:mm:ss 1945 44 ... 1984 3695 Indian Pacific: Farr 40 One Tonner 12.30 Gunter Heuchmer John Eyles IOR 3:07:45:03 1985 4117 Sagacious: Farr 40 One Tonner 12.20 ...
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The CYCA dock ahead of the 1984 SHYR. Photo: David Colfelt The 1946 SHYR fleet moored in Constitution Dock after the Race. CYCA Life Member Merv Davey in the cap and Davey Jones on the tiller of Trade Winds in the 1950s. ... In 1945 a planned cruise to Hobart quickly turned into a race and the famous Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was born.
starters in 1984 (46 finished); 147 started in 1979 (142 finished) . Largest fleet post-2000: 116 in 2004 (59 finished); 117 in 2014 (103 finished); 157 in 2019 (154 finished) Smallest fleet: Nine starters in the inaugural Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in 1945. Largest number of international entries: In 2015 and 2017 there were 27,
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Lindsay Bruce May OAM is an Australian sailor, known for his achievements in offshore yacht racing including 3 Overall Wins & 1 Line Honours win in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as well as holding the record for the most consecutive races sailed. [1] [2] [3]As an offshore sailor & navigator, May has sailed in many of the world's most regarded regattas & races including the Admirals Cup ...
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The crew of winning yacht Rani are pictured on their arrival in Hobart on January 1, 1946 Sydney Morning Herald Archives. Such equipment as suffered damage was, generally speaking, running gear ...
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