Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race: Latest updates and live boat cam coverage
by Richard Gladwell 26 Dec 2023 19:25 AEDT
2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race start © Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
To see the latest positions in the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race check the official race tracker.
rolexsydneyhobart.com/tracker
For those unfamiliar with the tracker it shows the leading boats for line honours in the default view. You can pull up selected boats in the pull down menus.
It also shows the position of the race record holder (LDV Comanche) at the same stage of the race in 2017 - not to be confused with the current entry Andoo Comanche.
To bring up the data on the individual boats you need to click on the boat icon (not just the name) - you should see the current speed and distance to the finish. Note this is a course directly to the finish, not the fastest course to the finish. The boat is located on a chart of the current fleet location. The solid line is the direct course to finish.
The current position of the boat in its respective fleets is also shown.
In the peloton of the fleet it can be very tricky to bring up a boat, and you need to set the screen to as large a scale as possible to make this easier. For more data on each boat click on the boat names to the right side of the tracker which shows amongst other data Speed over the Ground (SoG) and Course over the Ground (CoG).
For those who missed it, line honours was taken by LawConnect, the former Speedboat - by Juan K, and built by the Cookson yard in New Zealand. They won a tense battle all the way up the Derwent River with the race record holder from 2017, now andoo Comanche. The race is now on for overall honours - with five boats in contention, including the two supermaxis, which have just finished. The others are URM, Alive and Moneypenny.
The 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will go down in history as a "Big Boat" race with the top three yachts all being over 60ft and early finishers. The smaller boats in the race encountered head winds of 35-45kts and rough seas - making it impossible to finish ahead of their deadlines to take the top trophy, the Tattersall Cup.
The Overall Honours and winner of the Tattersall Cup was the Tasmanian Reichel/Pugh 66 design, Alive, skippered by Duncan Hine. It was his second overall win in five years. Second overall was URM Group, a Reichel/Pugh 72 (Anthony and David Johnston), and to complete the trifecta a Reichel/Pugh 69, Moneypenny (Sean Langman) was third in the overall standings.
The top two yachts in the overall standings had women navigators - Adrienne Cahalan (Alive) and Alison Parker (URM Group).
Doyle Sails powered the line honours winner, Law Connect and the Overall honours winner, Alive.
Live webcam coverage from Law Connect as they win Line Honours in the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart
If you missed the start on Boxing Day - here is the full replay