"I found it interesting that five of the top 10 boats overall in the recent Sydney Hobart race were built in the 1970s or earlier.
Just goes to show, it is hard to beat a well-sailed boat on handicap. There has been much said in Scuttlebutt bout how to increase participation in our sport of sailing. How about getting out there in a bunch of inexpensive, well-preparred old boats with a decent crew and knocking the socks off a
bunch of expensive, high tech boats?"
- Dennis Palmer
Scuttlebutt 2256, 01/09/07
Wild Oats XI, her exhausted crew of 23 along with owner Bob Oatley, gybed their way under spinnaker in the dark up Hobart's Derwent River to secure her second consecutive line honours win in the Rolex Sydney Hobart..., Full ~ story
Hourly reports from Sail-World ~ link
Helicopter rescues Sydney-Hobart injured
December 27, 2006 08:41am
Three crewmen have been winched by helicopter from the maxi yacht Maximus after it was dismasted in the middle of the night... Full ~ story
