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Oceanbridge Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on Monday
Sunday, 29 January 2012, 12:40 pm | Regatta News
Flying Cats, Water Dragons, Waka and a beautiful Pea-Green Boat Assemble for Oceanbridge Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on Monday More >>
Race Day Waitemata Spectacle with Classic Yachts
Monday, 17 January 2011, 12:17 pm | Regatta News
A full fleet of sailing craft from the graceful Jessie Logan, built in 1878, to the grunty Ports of Auckland tugboats and nippy P class yachts skippered by the next generation of racing sailors will bring the Waitemata Harbour alive in a maritime ... More >>
Omega Auckland Match Racing Regatta
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 6:02 pm | Regatta News
Some of the world’s top international match race teams are set to descend on Auckland for the Omega Auckland Match Racing Regatta in March. A mix of America’s Cup experience plus rising young talent will do battle in the invitational regatta on the Waitemata ... More >>
Sydney Hobart Race Winners Collect Their Trophies
Tuesday, 1 January 2008, 5:54 pm | Regatta News
The official prizegiving took place today, New Year's Day, at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania in Sandy Bay where the His Excellency, the Honourable William Cox, Governor of Tasmania, and RYCT Commodore Alastair Douglas among other dignitaries. More >>
Rosebud Is Overall Winner Of Sydney Hobart Race
Sunday, 30 December 2007, 6:37 am | Regatta News
The Commodore of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Matt Allen this afternoon formally announced the US STP65 Rosebud, owned by Roger Sturgeon (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida), as the provisional overall IRC winner of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. More >>
Line Honours Winner, Wild Oats XI, Three In A Row
Friday, 28 December 2007, 5:36 pm | Regatta News
While Wild Oats XI finished two hours and 44 minutes outside the record time of one day, 18 hours, 40 minutes, and ten seconds she set in 2005, her third consecutive win equaled the record set in the race's very early days, by Claude Plowman's Morna. More >>
Wild Oats XI Wins 2007 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Friday, 28 December 2007, 2:50 pm | Regatta News
Bob Oatley's 98-foot super-maxi Wild Oats XI, with Mark Richards as skipper, crossed the finish in Hobart at 10:24am local time to take line honours for the third consecutive year. The yacht's elapsed time was 1 day, 21 hrs, 24 mins. More >>
Roller Coaster Stop & Go For Sydney Hobart Fleet
Friday, 28 December 2007, 12:26 pm | Regatta News
The pace slowed at the head of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race as the three leading maxis sailed into southerly headwinds crossing Bass Strait on the approach to the northeast coast of Tasmania. At 8pm Thursday (Dec 27) Wild Oats XI was still leading. More >>
Fleet In Reaching Mode Heading Into Bass Strait
Thursday, 27 December 2007, 2:09 pm | Regatta News
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet passed through light transitional winds early this morning between the strong overnight northerly, of up to 22 knots and into a weak southwest change. The three maxis leading the fleet were close reaching. More >>
About The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2007
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 1:00 pm | Regatta News
No yachting event in the world attracts such huge media coverage - except, of course, the America's Cup and the Volvo Ocean Race every four years or so - than does the start in Sydney Harbour on the 26th of December every year. More >>
2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race Record Run Doubtful
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 9:08 am | Regatta News
Soft and swinging winds on the second day will slow the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet; probably removing any chance of the 98 foot canting-keeled maxis have of breaking the race record and producing a handicap winner from the mid-fleet 40-65-footers. More >>