Oceanracing 2003 - Sydney-Hobart Race 2003

Ocean-Yachting - Hobart Race 2003

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Over the past 58 years, the Rolex Sydney Hobart
has become an icon of Australia’s summer sport, ranking in public interest with such national events as the Melbourne Cup horse race, the Davis Cup tennis and the cricket tests between Australia and England. No yachting event in the world attracts such huge media coverage – except, of course, the America’s Cup and the Whitbread Round the World Race – than does the start on Sydney Harbour. And they only happen every four or five years.
Over those years, the Sydney Hobart Race and Cruising Yacht Club of Australia have had marked influence on international ocean yacht racing.
The Club has influenced the world in race communications and sea safety, indextaining the highest standards of yacht construction, rigging and stability for ocean racing yachts.

28.12.2003
0600 AEDT - Skandia takes line honours by 14 minutes from Zana

Grant Wharington's Skandia collected line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart this morning when the Australian yacht crossed the finish line just 14 minutes and 24 seconds ahead of Stewart Thwaites' New Zealand-registered Maxi Zana. Skandia finished at 04:14:06 on Monday morning with an elapsed time of 2 days, 15 hours, 14 minutes and 6 seconds.

The 98-foot Super Maxi from Melbourne has lead the 59th edition of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's flagship race for most of the 628-mile course. Tough upwind conditions for much of the course have meant that the race record was never in any danger, the two giant boats finishing almost 20 hours behind the reference time.

The Super Maxi pair has been locked in a match race from the start, Wharington making the first move to engage the opposition shortly before the start gun fired on Boxing Day in Sydney. The two boats have only had eyes for each other over the past two and a half days. As a result Wharington and Thwaites have often concentrated on their own personal match race leaving the way for Sean Langman's much smaller Grundig to surprise them frequently with bold initiatives elsewhere on the course. With the leaders approaching Tasman Island, just 40 miles from the finish the wind dropped leaving no serious options left for Grundig to pass Skandia or Zana, but the line honours race was far from over.

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28.12.2003 - Skandia hanging onto lead as race finale approaches

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