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VIDEO | 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart - Official Prizegiving

Watch a replay of the Official Prizegiving for the 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the 80th edition of the great race, including a video race reflection courtesy of Rolex. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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‘Grumpy’ Ellis racks up record 55th Hobart on Midnight Rambler

Home 2025 ‘Grumpy’ Ellis racks up record 55th Hobart on Midnight Rambler Numbers mean nothing to Tony Ellis - known in sailing circles as both ‘Grumpy’ and ‘Ace’ - his age, the year of his first ...
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Race Committee Announces Race Protest Result | Min River Wins Rolex Sydney Hobart

The protest by the Race Committee versus BNC – my::NET / LEON following the 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has been upheld by the International Jury. The International Jury has imposed a time ...
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Race Committee protests BNC – my::NET / LEON

This morning at 0900 hours the skippers from BNC – my::NET / LEON made an official declaration with regards a breach of the Racing Rule of Sailing 55.3. Following the declaration, the Race Committee ...
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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 ...
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A Roller Coaster of Life - Hayes Reflects on Challenge and Triumph

“It’s like a roller coaster of life,” that’s how Matt Hayes, owner/skipper of Veloce, sums up the 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race — a race that delivered extremes of weather, emotion and endurance ...
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Mondo returns from 2024 heartbreak to win Sydney 38 Division

Mondo’s Lisa Callaghan was over the moon to finish the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart after the disappointment of retiring from last year’s race.
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Battered but Unbowed - Rum Bucket Fights Through Brutal Race to Finish

For Quintin Fowler, the finish line in Hobart felt as satisfying as any podium after surviving a brutal edition of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. “We also smashed our spinnaker pole in two coming ...
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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 handed crew of the 17 entries to cross the Castray Esplanade ...
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Crews persist through crew injury and other woes

Shortly after arriving at Kings Pier Marina in Hobart around 0630 hours today, co-skipper of the DK46 Team WhiteWave (former LCE Old School Racing), William Wu, emerged from the cabin – battered, ...