The sight of dozens of yachts zigzagging around Sydney Harbour's blue water on Boxing Day has competed with the cricket for TV audience eyeballs for a while now - so why all the fuss?

Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in Melbourne, Australia. He started at Sportal.com.au before being a part of the transition to Sporting News in 2015. Just prior to the ...

Where is the start line? What happens if someone falls off? So many questions — let's try and answer them. The annual event — the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is its official name — is now ...

Master Lock Comanche, left, and LawConnect sail out of the heads following the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. Credit: AP/Mark Evans “That is one of ...

Bowline sails out of the heads following the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Sydney on Dec. 26. AP “We’ve got police getting talking to them, doctors and counselling. They’re ...

Master Lock Comanche has retired in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, leaving Law Connect to lead the fleet and possibly break the record. As of 1:30am AEDT, Law Connect led Celestial V70 by 9 ...

The start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race December 26, 1998. (Photo by Nick Wilson/Getty Images) According to the official listings, Flying Fish Arcos has a crew of 10 plus a skipper and a ...

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 ...

Organizers said Friday that two Sydney to Hobart sailors have ... The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, which administers the yacht race, has said that one sailor each on entrants ...

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 ...