Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

CYCA announce commentary team for Rolex Sydney Hobart

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) has finalised its multi-platform commentary team for the 2026 Rolex Sydney Hobart ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Kathleen Gillett - one of the 9 boats in the inaugural Sydney Hobart in 1945

Home 2025 Kathleen Gillett - one of the 9 boats in the inaugural Sydney Hobart in 1945 Evie Haseldine takes us aboard Kathleen Gillett, a competitor in the first Sydney Hobart Race in 1945 (under the ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

The XX Factor lives up to her name

As Janet Thornley’s XX Factor docked in Hobart after finishing the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race at 07.41.15 this morning, an all-female crew bar one, there were cheers and tears from aboard and from ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Double handed line honours for Quintin and Rigal

Home 2025 Double handed line honours for Quintin and Rigal Michel Quintin and Yann Rigal crossed the finish line of the 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart exhausted, soaked and relieved — the first double ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

ROLEX Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2026

About the Race The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is organised by Cruising Yacht Club of Australia with the co-operation of Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

AAPT too comfortable for Sean

Ironically, the weather conditions this year were probably better suited to the old downwind rocket ship than in any of the years that Langman raced her. AAPT, the former line honours winning (racing ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Oroton Drumfire

The eye-catching Oroton Drumfire, skippered by Phillip Neil, normally sails the race under PHS, but is going IRC for the 80th. She placed second on PHS and won Division 1 last year and won PHS and ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Top Cat

About the Race The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is organised by Cruising Yacht Club of Australia with the co-operation of Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

ROLEX Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2026

First production Farr 1104 to be launched, Rockie was 2nd overall in the 1976 Sydney Hobart, and has gone on to place well over the years, including 2nd under IOR and 3rd under PHRF in the 1989 ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Min River’s historic Rolex Sydney Hobart Overall victory

Home 2025 Min River’s historic Rolex Sydney Hobart Overall victory Min River has been declared the Overall winner of the 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, making her owner, Jiang Lin, the first ...
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Accepting your fate - in Love & War

For the past two days, Simon Kurts’ beautiful classic yacht, Love & War, hung in the top 10 boats, leading the Rolex Sydney Hobart at times, the only fully crewed yacht among a bevy of double handed ...