International Yachts And Sailors Back For Sydney Hobart Race

International Yachts And Sailors Back For Sydney Hobart Race

For the first time since 2019, the Sydney to Hobart is back to its old self, with a bevy of international yachts and sailors competing in one of the world’s most grueling ocean races.

For the first time since 2019, the Sydney to Hobart is back to its old self, with a bevy of international yachts and sailors competing in one of the world’s most grueling ocean races.

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Following cancellations in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and heavy restrictions due to quarantines last year, the annual Sydney event starting on Monday will feature eight foreign yachts and crews from 21 countries, including Antigua, Panama and Thailand.

There will be 126 overseas crew members, all of whom are already based in Australia, compared to seven overseas sailors last year.

In 2020, for the first time since its inception in 1945, the race was not held from Sydney to the island state of Tasmania, across the infamous Bass Strait.

But next week there are no restrictions, and the usual buzz is back around the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, with particularly large crowds at the Australian Maxi Championship presentations in early December.

“All the maxi crews got together afterwards and there was good camaraderie and it was like old times,” Locknect Sailing Master and New Zealander Tony Matter, one of the few overseas sailors competing in the 2021 race, told the Australian Associated Press. “

The more than 100 entries in the 628-nautical-mile (1,170-kilometre) race include veterans Stan Heaney and Ian Murray. They have swapped out the bigger boats for the race, with Murray entering all four Super Maxis.

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Murray was aboard Australian sailing master, Endu Comanche, in the Wild Oats XI event run by the Oatley family during his record run of nine line-honors victories since 2005.

Haney, an American and navigator on Hamilton Island Wild Oats, formerly Wild Oats XI, has a success rate of better than 50% from Sydney to Hobart, taking line honors four times in seven races, including Comanche wins in 2015, 2017 and 2019.

Honey sailed on the Black Jack a decade ago when it was known as Alfa Romeo and was owned by Neville Crichton. Honey took his first Hobart line-honours win in 2011 on Investec Loyal, owned by Anthony Bell, who races as Locknect.

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“It was a bit upsetting that we managed to beat Wild Oats in that race because Wild Oats was quite fast,” Haney said.

International Yachts And Sailors Back For Sydney Hobart Race

The 67-year-old Californian said she was proud to be asked to be the Navigator on Hamilton Island Wild Oats this year.

“Rico (Oates skipper Mark Richards) called me up and asked me to do the last race, which he then pulled back and then of course canceled in 2020,” Haney said. “I stand by looking forward to an opportunity to navigate the Oats.”

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Early weather forecasts indicated that north-easterly winds would hit the east coast at the start of the race, giving yachts a comfortable journey downriver from the states of New South Wales and Victoria. The fast yacht is likely to see that season to the finish line.

The Black Jack, skippered by Mark Bradford that won last year, arrived at Constitution Dock in Hobart after two days, 12 hours, 37 minutes.

Of the 88 boats that left Sydney, 36 were forced to retire due to dangerous waves and weather conditions.

The 1998 race was marred by severe gale-force weather and storms. Six sailors died in the five boats that sank, and only 44 of the 115 boats that started the race finished.

Comanche set the race record in 2017 in one day, nine hours, 15 minutes, 24 seconds.

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