This is why the Melges 24/32 are so successful as both a company and a yacht, we met Buddy Melges in the beer tent at Key West 2006, and without a question he gave us quick interview in the style of Victor Kiam, Buddy Melges you’re the Man. Buddy is Melges yachts (more…)
| Overall winner LOVE & WAR crew |
| Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2006 Sydney/Hobart, AUS Photo by: Carlo Borlenghi / Rolex |
Love & War, the magnificent timber Sparkman & Stephens 47 skippered by Lindsay May, has been declared the official winner of theTattersalls Cup, the trophy awarded to the winner of the race on IRC handicap. The Race Committee has calculated that none of the remaining yachts at sea have a reasonable prospect of finishing in time to beat her. (more…)
I found this on youtube, nice clip of some starting action. Thanks to www.livesaildie.com for the action, looks alot warmer there than in Scotland right now. It would freeze the “BAWS OFF A BRASS MONKEY” right noo.
Here is another wee clip of the start http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22MM7QB_65E
Quantum Racing, pre race trainning from LSD onboard coverage.
It is going to be a long wait for Matt Allen, the skipper of Ichi Ban. Safely in Hobart already, his is the time to beat for the Tattersalls Cup and the title of overall winner of the 2006 Rolex Sydney Hobart. (more…)
At 20:57 local time (11:57 UTC), Sir Robin Knox-Johnston crossed the finish line in Fremantle (Western Australia) in leg one of the VELUX 5 OCEANS. After 67 days, 00 hours and 57 minutes alone at sea, SAGA INSURANCE sailed past the race committee boat in the waters off the Fremantle Sailing Club. (more…)
The Australian maxi Wild Oats XI has taken back-to-back line honours wins in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the first time this has happened since 1964 and only the sixth time in the event’s 62 year history. (more…)
The Rolex Sydney Hobart front runners have crossed Bass Strait and are sailing almost in a straight line 52 nautical miles east of St Helens off the far north east coast of Tasmania. Based on current speed, it will be a line honours finish in Hobart under the cover of darkness early tomorrow morning, Friday 29 December. (more…)
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With a count of 8 yachts out of the race, masts lost, boats sunk to the bottom, and air lifts of injured persons and many boats suffering gear damage, the race is still to be won. The current leaders on the board are Wild Oats x1 for line honours with Ichi ban for handicap leader. Skandia lying in 2nd place limping with damage but still doing 8.1 kts and race leader Wild oats travelling at 11.9 kts, but there is still along way to go.
Sydney Morning Herald photographer Dallas Kilponen, who was sailing on board Rolex Sydney Hobart 2006 entrant Maximus, has described the minutes immediately after the dramatic collapse of the maxi’s giant mast this morning. (more…)
Overnight the gruelling Rolex Sydney Hobart claimed the scalp of race leader and round the world Volvo 70 ABN AMRO ONE skippered by New Zealand yachtsman Mike Sanderson and a short time later Charles St Clair Brown and Bill Buckley’s 30m maxi Maximus was also dismasted. (more…)
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