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.
At 9.30am, on the second day of last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, about 60 miles off the New South Wales town of Narooma, Queenslander Mike Freebairn’s world began to come apart at the seams. Koomooloo, the beautiful timber ocean racing veteran that he and his father had so painstakingly r
The crew of HUGO BOSS II, the British Volvo 60 racing yacht competing in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, are this weekend making final preparations ahead of the start of the iconic yacht race on Boxing Day.
race favourite would be a cinch. Look at the likely weather conditions, see which boat is fastest in these and put your money down. But it isn’t a first past the post sprint, it is a handicap race and there are 66 boats ranging from 34 to 100 feet that are eligible to be the […]
Somewhere in the crew of Graeme Wood’s Sydney 47 Wot’s Next lies the future of Australian ocean racing. Wood, who created the highly successful Wotif.com web site, has two boats entered in the Rolex Sydney Hobart 2007, Wot’s Next and Wot Yot, a Nelson Marek TP52. He will be sailing the latter, a lig
Once the 82 boat Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet leaves Sydney Harbour at 1pm on Boxing Day, apart from the odd glimpse from the coastline or on television news programs they are mostly out of sight, but thanks to the highly awarded race website, the public, media and even the competitors can follow the r
Underwater search teams have found a second body inside a tug boat which capsized in the River Clyde. Strathclyde Police confirmed that Eric Blackley, 57, from Gourock, was located in the Flying Phantom during a recovery operation on Saturday morning.
The navigator of a cruise ship that ran aground off Alaska in May was only 22, had no real knowledge of the area and no training on the boat, a report says. Marino Cattiotti was put in charge for four hours because another navigator was ill, the National Transportation Safety Board report said.
Over the last couple of years, Europe’s offshore sailors have discovered a new, inexpensive route to thrilling, high speed sailing. They have discovered Class 40 racing.
