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How size doesn’t count in the Sydney to Hobart race
One crews on a maxi, the other skippers a 36-footer, but Sven Runow and Ed Psaltis share the same mad passion for Australia’s most notorious yachting challenge.
- Philippa Coates
December 2022
The team-building secrets this Sydney to Hobart winning CEO swears by
Sydney to Hobart champion John Winning, also the chief executive of his fourth-generation family company, says data is equally important in sport and business.
- Gus McCubbing
Andoo Comanche takes Sydney to Hobart line honours
The 100-foot yacht crossed the River Derwent finish line shortly before 1am AEDT on Wednesday with a time of one day, 11 hours, 56 minutes and 48 seconds.
- Ethan James
Sydney to Hobart race record still in sight
After 20 hours of racing, the favourite and three-time line honours winner, Andoo Comanche, was leading by about 12 nautical miles from LawConnect.
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- Adrian Warren
Why navigators rate the Sydney to Hobart as the world’s hardest race
The six navigational tests in the famous sailing race keep the world’s best navigators coming back again and again.
- David Schmidt
Sydney-Hobart leaders close to record pace
Andoo Comanche has overcome a difficult start to set the pace in the early stages of the Sydney to Hobart with the first retirement reported a couple of hours into the race.
Andoo Comanche eyes Sydney-Hobart history
Andoo Comanche skipper John Winning says his supermaxi is unstoppable if sailed correctly in the right conditions, with the boat poised to create Sydney to Hobart history if it lives up to his name.
April 2022
Yacht discovered among failed biotech outfit’s assets
Creditors are trying to find out what happened when key companies in iQ Group Global, which offered spectacular returns, tumbled into administration.
- Liam Walsh and Jonathan Shapiro
December 2021
Super maxi Black Jack wins line honours at Sydney-Hobart race
The Monaco Yacht Club-based Black Jack finished at 1.37am in 2 days, 12 hours, 37 minutes, 17 seconds.
Super maxi Black Jack leads battered Sydney-Hobart fleet
Super maxi Black Jack leads a much-reduced Sydney to Hobart race fleet after strong winds and high seas forced almost a quarter of the boats to retire.
LawConnect takes early lead as Sydney Hobart yacht race returns
Super-maxi LawConnect took the early lead as the Sydney Hobart yacht race set sail after a one-year hiatus with an 88-strong fleet on Sunday.
- Sudipto Ganguly
It’s the frustration that lures you back, say Sydney Hobart Race vets
In the leadup to Sunday’s departure from the Harbour City, veteran sailors Tony Ellis and Ed Psaltis talk disaster prep and moments of awe.
- Dan F. Stapleton
A Sydney-Hobart dream 45 years in the making
Boat-building icon Bill Barry-Cotter hopes Boxing Day dawns with light winds and a distinct absence of COVID-19.
- Joanna Mather
December 2020
Sydney facing uncertain summer of sport after Sydney-Hobart cancelled
There is disappointment over the cancellation of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race because of Sydney's growing coronavirus outbreak, but the India versus Australia test match is still planned to go ahead.
- Finbar O'Mallon
Sydney Harbour worked its magic on this CEO
Understanding the complexity of sailing and the need for teamwork meant Andrew Butler was able to endure the toughest Sydney-Hobart race in more than a decade.
- Life & Leisure
September 2020
Skippers fear Sydney to Hobart is on the rocks
Organisers will give an update in October on whether the 2020 Sydney to Hobart yacht race will go ahead.
- Finbar O'Mallon
January 2020
Sydney Hobart yacht sinks amid 'post-apocalyptic' fire smoke and winds
The crew of Showtime were forced to dive out of the yacht after it capsized in horrendous conditions caused by bushfires.
- Hannah Wootton
December 2019
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- Life & Leisure
The lure of the deep: 75 years of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Every sailor has their reasons for taking on the extreme challenges of this most demanding of ocean contests.
- Tony Boyd
