The Sydney to Hobart race stsrts today......

[oldsaltoz]

The Sydney to Hobart web site is rolexsydneyhobart.com/‎
You can download the tracker and see how our favorite is doing.

Hurry up it starts in a couple of hours.

Bad weather with up to 10 metre swells as they aproach Hobart.

Good luck and fair winds to all.

 

[mrming]

The Volvo 70 is in the lead at the moment. Only 14 minutes between 1st and 7th at the moment. Exciting stuff!

 

[Woodlouse]

The Volvo 70 is in the lead at the moment. Only 14 minutes between 1st and 7th at the moment. Exciting stuff!

I've just been looking at the website and it's very hard to tell who's in the lead. Different pages suggest differently between Perpetual Loyal and Wild Oats.

 

[mrming]

Yes agreed. I think we can safely ignore the standings page where I got the above info. According to the tracker both Perpetual Loyal and Giacomo are winning on IRC.

 

[William_H]

I've just been looking at the website and it's very hard to tell who's in the lead. Different pages suggest differently between Perpetual Loyal and Wild Oats.

The Volvo 70s (all in part of the Cliper around the world race) while very fast are no match for these maxis. With there huge canting keels and hydraulially operated winches and 20 crew men. However if the weather comes up really nasty the V70s will be in their element. IRC handicap is all very well but the media focus on the line honours. (So do the rich guys apparently) olewill

 

[Amulet]

At one point today Wild Oats XI was logged as doing 27.1 knots! Now running away with the race for line honours.

Interesting that on corrected time she is predicted 65th out of 74 in the IRC class, which isn't quite as good as first.

 

[Simondjuk]

The Volvo 70s (all in part of the Cliper around the world race)

There's no connection between the Volvo 70s and the Clipper 70s except the size.

 

[mrming]

The new Clippers are rather nice but they are different boats than the VO70s for a different purpose. The Clippers weigh twice what a VO70 weighs, and is designed for 24 crew rather than 11.

 

[William_H]

The new Clippers are rather nice but they are different boats than the VO70s for a different purpose. The Clippers weigh twice what a VO70 weighs, and is designed for 24 crew rather than 11.

Thanks I have obviously go them confused. olewill