So many questions — let's try and answer them. The annual event — the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is its official name — is now in its 79th year and has been described as "one of the ...

Calls are growing for the Sydney to Hobart race to be banned after two men on separate yachts were killed by sail booms overnight. The sailors, who are yet to be identified, were killed as the ...

Crews of more than 100 yachts set sail Thursday on a "boat-breaking" Sydney-Hobart yacht race, with gale-force winds and high seas forecast for the gruelling bluewater classic. Under blue ...

By Yan Zhuang Two sailors taking part in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race died in separate accidents overnight during wild weather, the Australian authorities said Friday. They were the first ...

Two sailors on separate boats have been killed in boom accidents two hours apart on a storm-ravaged first night of the annual Sydney to Hobart race, adding to the event’s long history of deaths ...

SYDNEY — There have been plenty of “firsts” in the history of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race which was first held in 1945. An all-Filipino crew of 15 sailors will make it another when the ...

Forecasts of thunderstorms and wild winds have Sydney to Hobart captains on high alert two days out from the race. The conditions might also put at risk the race record set by LDV Comanche in 2017.

Two sailors died in separate accidents on the first night of the 2024 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in Australia, the event organizers announced. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia said in a ...

Two sailors on separate boats were killed in boom accidents two hours apart on the storm-ravaged first night of the annual Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race, adding to the event's long history of deaths ...

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney ... of the race, with four of those deaths resulting from sailor heart attacks. The fleet continued its passage to Constitution Dock in Hobart ...