Sydney Hobart: Giacomo/Wizard (NZ/US) has back to back wins
by Sail-World.com/nz 1 Jan 2018 00:06 PST
1 January 2018
Wizard (formerly Giacomo) won IRC Class 0 in the 2016 and 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart - under two different owners © Michael Chittenden
For the second successive year, in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the 2011/12 Volvo Ocean Race champion Groupama IV has won IRC Class 0 - and under different owners.
Formerly the New Zealand owned and skippered Giacomo (Jim Delegat), she was second boat home in the 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart, winning overall and divisional honours.
Under US owners David and Peter Askew, Giacomo, now renamed Wizard was fifth boat home in Hobart in the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, and once again took divisional honours.
Michael Chittenden was on the water at the start of the 2017 race to capture these images of Wizard, still sailing in her distinctive Giacomo livery.