The three maxis leading the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet entered Bass Strait around 4am this morning with Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats XI still in the lead. At 0500hrs the Sydney maxi, which is aiming for a hat trick of line honours wins, held a 9 mile break on Mike Slade’s British maxi City Index Leopard, [
Spirit of Koomooloo, the yacht currently leading the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on corrected time, this morning took time out to pay its respects to the sunken yacht that gave rise to its name. The original Koomooloo, which won the 1968 Sydney Hobart overall, sank off the NSW coast in last year’
The Sri Lankan military says it has destroyed several Tamil Tiger boats and killed as many as 40 rebels in clashes off the north-west coast of the island. It said attack boats, helicopters and jets were used against the rebel vessels, which it said were involved in ‘arms smuggling’.
The Isle of Man is set to see an increase in the number of cruise liners calling at the island. A spokesman for the tourism department said there were already 12 cruise ships scheduled to visit in 2008 – an increase on 2007 bookings.
The expansion and modernization of Ports remained amongst the top priority areas of the Government during the year 2007. Several developmental projects got underway at the major ports during the year. The year also witnessed significant growth in traffic and capacity at ports and also the growth in
From the opening seconds of the 63rd Rolex Sydney Hobart Wild Oats XI, the pre-race line honours favourite led the fleet down Sydney Harbour but prowling along the exclusion zone boundary and matching Wild Oats XI, at least to the first turning mark, was Mike Slade’s City Index Leopard.
A worrying trend in the increasing intensity and ferocity of pirate attacks on commercial shipping vessels has put the regional shipping industry on high alert, as attacks on container, vehicle and general cargo ships continue to rise.
It is tactical decision every skipper makes in any Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The right choice and you’re a hero. Get it wrong and it can cost you the race. And as the boats have changed over the years he equation has been shifting.
The Port of Hobart this week is preparing for the largest influx of yachts since the 50th Rolex Sydney Hobart Race in 1994, when 371 yachts set sail from Sydney and 307 made it to finish line on the Derwent River.
Sailing the seas in a luxury yacht sounds like a scene out of a James Bond movie, but Ferretti Custom Line Yachts bring that dream to life. The newest model, the 29.7m Custom Line 97’, has been dubbed the Lord of the Seas. In the world of VIP sailing, the vessels range in length from […]
Soft and swinging winds on the second day will slow the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet; probably removing any chance of the 98 foot canting-keeled maxis have of breaking the race record and producing a handicap winner from the mid-fleet 40-65-footers behind them.
‘It ain’t gonna happen’. That’s Mike Slade’s summation of the chase for the Rolex Sydney Hobart race record that was being touted as a possibility a couple of days ago.
A Cornish town is to host four days of festivities alongside a tall ship’s race in September 2008. Up to 30 vessels are due to take part in the Funchal 500 Regatta from Falmouth to Madeira.
The body of the skipper of the Flying Phantom tug has been found by police divers searching the capsized vessel. Stephen Humphreys, 33, from Greenock, was the last of three dead crew members to have been recovered.
