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Sydney
to Hobart Yacht Race
-
annual
ocean race conducted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia
since 1945.
-
starts
from Sydney Harbour on Boxing day (Dec 26) and finish in Hobart,
Tasmania.
-
route:
Sydney Harbour - East coast of Australia - Bass Strait - Tasmanian
east coast - Storm Bay - Derwent River - Battery Point in
Hobart.
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distance
of 630 nautical miles.
-
Rani
won the inaugural Sydney to Hobart race in 1945.
9 yachts competed the race.
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RECORDS:
SYDNEY TO HOBART YACHT RACE
- FASTEST
RACE:
RECORD:
1 Day 18 hr 40 m 10s by Wild Oats XI (Australia), 2005
PREV RECORD: 1 Day 19 hr 48 m 2s by Nokia (Denmark) with water ballast,
1999
- SMALLEST
FLEET: 9 starters, 1945 (first race)
- SMALLEST
YACHT: 27 ft / 28.23 m - Klinger, NSW, 1978
- SMALLEST
YATCH LINE WINNER: 35 ft - Nocturne, NSW,1952
- LARGEST
FLEET: 371 starters, 1994 (50th anniversary)
- LARGEST
YACHT: 98 ft - Skandia, AUS, 2003
- LARGEST
YATCH LINE WINNER: 89 ft / 27.4 m - Alfa Romeo Shockwave, AUS/NZ,
2002
- DOUBLE
LINE & HANDICAP WINNERS:
1945, Rani, NSW
1972, American Eagle, USA
1977, Kialoa, USA
1980, New Zealand, NZ
1987, Sovereign, NSW
2005, Wild Oats XI, NSW
- CLOSEST
RACE FINISH: 7 seconds in 1982; Condor (UK) beat Apollo (NSW)
- MOST SUCCESSFUL
YATCH DESIGNER: Bruce Farr (NZ), 14 overall winners
- FIRST
ALL FEMALE YACHT: Barbarian, 1975 (skipper: Vicki Wilma)
- MOST RACES:
record 44 starts by John Bennetto
- MOST RACES
FOR WOMAN:
13 by Adrienne Cahalan (AUS); she was the navigator for 2002 winner
Nicorette
- INAUGURAL
RACE WINNER, 1945:
Rani
- WORST DISASTER:
1998, 6 sailors died; 115 started but only 43 finished.
- TREBLE
RACE WINNER: (line, handicap, record time)
1945:
Rani
2005 Wild Oats XI
WINNERS:
SYDNEY TO HOBART LINE HONOURS
- 2005: Wild
Oats XI, 1D
18hr 40m *** record time ***
- 2004: Nicorette
2D
16hr
- 2003: Skandia,
2D
15hr 14m
- 2002: Alfa
Romeo
- 2001: Assa
Abloy, 2D
20hr 46m
- 2000: Nicorette
- 1999: Nokia,
1D
19hr 48m *** record time ***
- 1998: Sayonara
**** 6 sailors died ****
- 1997: Brindabella,
2D
23hr 37m
- 1996: Morning
Glory, 2D
14hr 7m
- 1995: Sayonara,
3D
0hr 53m
- 1994: Tasmania,
2D
17hr 48m
- 1993: Ninety
Seven, 4D
0hr 54m
- 1992: NZ
Endeavour, 2D
19hr 19m
- 1991: Brindabella,
3D
1hr 14m
- 1990: Ragamuffin,
2D
21hr 5m
- 1989: Drumbeat,
3D
6hr 21m
- 1988: Ragamuffin,
3D
15hr 29m
- 1987: Sovereign,
2D
21hr 58m
- 1986: Condor
of Bermuda,
2D 23hr 26m
- 1985: Apollo,
3D 4hr 32m
- 1984: New
Zealand, 3D
11hr 21m
- 1983: Condor,
3D
0hr 50m
- 1982: Condor
of Bermuda, 3D
0hr 59m
- 1981: Vengeance,
3D
22hr 30m
- 1980: New
Zealand, 2D
18hr 45m
- 1979: Bumblebee
IV
- 1978: Apollo
- 1977: Kialoa
II
- 1976: Ballyhoo
- 1975: Kialoa
- 1974: Helsal
- 1973: Ondine
III
- 1972: American
Eagle
- 1971: Kialoa
- 1970: Buccaneer
BRITISH
WINNERS: SYDNEY
TO HOBART OVERALL
- OVERALL
HANDICAP WINNERS
- 1945, Rani,
skipper Royal Navy Captain John Illingworth
- 1969, Morning
Cloud,
skipper British Prime Minister Edward Heath
- 2004, Aera,
skipper Jez Fanstone
INTERNATIONAL
WINNERS: SYDNEY
TO HOBART OVERALL
- Rainbow
II (NZ), 1967, 1969
- Pathfinder
(NZ), 1971
- American
Eagle (USA), 1972
- Ceil III
(Hong Kong), 1973
- Kialoa
II (USA), 1977
- New Zealand
(NZ), 1980
- Atara (Ireland),
1991
- Raptor
(Germany), 1994
- Beau Geste
(Hong Kong/China), 1997
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