The 52nd Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race started at 10am off Portsea Pier on ... retired just after the start citing gear damage. Assistant Start Race Director Ray Shaw anticipates a challenging and ...

In that disastrous race, six sailors died, five yachts sank, and more than 60 retired ... through to Hobart a bit worse for wear, a lot of gear broken but we were relatively intact," he said.

A competitor who survived being thrown overboard during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race has recounted how he ... helped him survive as he kicked into gear, checked his pockets for supplies and ...

The Sydney to Hobart yacht race suffers a double tragedy ... "We used all our safety gear, retrieved him, he popped up the back and came on board looking as if he'd just had a quick dip in ...

Moonbeam, which is a canoe stern ketch, was designed by Phillip L. Rhodes, a sailboat designer from 1920 to 1970, he said.

Screenshot from aboard the yacht during the racing. “It absolutely became more ... lights and her crew decked out in full wet weather gear after a torrid Sydney to Hobart. In the wake of the ...

LawConnect finished the race in one day ... lights and her crew decked out in full wet weather gear after a torrid Sydney to Hobart. The yacht recorded its win by crossing the Derwent River ...

Richard Lynn and his team sailing Gordon are clinging to a one point lead at the end of the penultimate day of the Dragons’ ...

Sydney to Hobart racing yacht Bowline has arrived in Batemans Bay ... they were still wearing their life vests and safety gear. Earlier on Friday morning, the Flying Fish Arctos — on which ...

Yacht Andoo Comanche competes during the start of the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Boxing Day at Sydney ... knots it feels like it’s in second gear. “It’s very fast and very ...