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Dec 25, 2015 8:32 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
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Dec 25, 2015 9:12 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
galrads
galradsgalradsDublin, Ohio USA2,264 Threads 279 Polls 36,283 Posts
robplum: http://www.rolexsydneyhobart.com/



Is the USA's Supermaxi Comanche going to take it this year?
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Dec 25, 2015 10:27 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
Certainly looks like it.
Commanche came second last year and has won every international yacht race its been in since. Certainly took off ahead the rest today, brilliant run out of the heads and down the coast, they might strict heavy weather tonight, not over yet....
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Dec 26, 2015 1:54 AM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
Some really good photos on this news page


Comanche storms to the lead in the Sydney to Hobart, leaving rivals in her wake

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Dec 26, 2015 3:35 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
Eight-times line honours winner Wild Oats XI is out with a torn mainsail and is returning to Sydney; the US frontrunner Comanche, which had been leading the race, suffered a broken rudder, initially retired but is now trying to effect repairs at sea and continue in the race; Anthony Bell’s Perpetual Loyal, with former Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke aboard, has retired, also with a broken rudder and is returning to Sydney.

The other US entry, George David’s 88 foot Rambler now leads the race, ahead of Comanche and Syd Fischer’s Ragamuffin 100.
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Dec 26, 2015 3:42 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
read about the carnage here

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Dec 26, 2015 3:51 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
pat8lanips
pat8lanipspat8lanipsbabinda, Queensland Australia67 Threads 14 Polls 6,372 Posts
Well they killed Phar Lap, so who knows what lengths they'll go to to win.
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Dec 26, 2015 4:17 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
galrads
galradsgalradsDublin, Ohio USA2,264 Threads 279 Polls 36,283 Posts
robplum: Eight-times line honours winner Wild Oats XI is out with a torn mainsail and is returning to Sydney; the US frontrunner Comanche, which had been leading the race, suffered a broken rudder, initially retired but is now trying to effect repairs at sea and continue in the race; Anthony Bell’s Perpetual Loyal, with former Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke aboard, has retired, also with a broken rudder and is returning to Sydney.

The other US entry, George David’s 88 foot Rambler now leads the race, ahead of Comanche and Syd Fischer’s Ragamuffin 100.



Any chance Comanche was sabotaged? I was really hoping it was their year.
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Dec 26, 2015 4:25 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
na i don't think so, no no chance

They sailed way out over edge of continental shelf, out there with strong southerly current and 30 kn south westerly wind high seas stack up, yacht was lost out there few years ago, the waves stack up and yacht sliding off wave easily break rudder and fin, so is my guess they slid off a wave sideways, but dunno
but nobody would sabotage commanche I'm pretty certain no chance downunder they'd do tat
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Dec 26, 2015 9:49 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
As the leading yachts reach the halfway mark of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the US supermaxi Comanche has made, arguably, the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

Comanche has closed on race leader Rambler, also from the US, and resumed the lead in the race for line honours.

While Comanche is back in the lead, just two nautical miles separates the two boats, and the southerly buster, which has taken out more than 20 per cent of the fleet, is expected to abate over the next 48 hours. On paper, the much lighter conditions expected in the bottom half of Bass Strait and along the Tasmanian coast later this afternoon and tonight favour the less beamy Rambler. So a fascinating duel could develop off Tasmania tonigh
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Dec 26, 2015 9:55 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
galrads
galradsgalradsDublin, Ohio USA2,264 Threads 279 Polls 36,283 Posts
robplum: As the leading yachts reach the halfway mark of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the US supermaxi Comanche has made, arguably, the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

Comanche has closed on race leader Rambler, also from the US, and resumed the lead in the race for line honours.

While Comanche is back in the lead, just two nautical miles separates the two boats, and the southerly buster, which has taken out more than 20 per cent of the fleet, is expected to abate over the next 48 hours. On paper, the much lighter conditions expected in the bottom half of Bass Strait and along the Tasmanian coast later this afternoon and tonight favour the less beamy Rambler. So a fascinating duel could develop off Tasmania tonigh


Oh wow, as you probably already guesse, I'm rooting for Comanche! yay
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Dec 27, 2015 12:56 AM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
Ha ha ha
Except, this afternoon, Comanche staged a dramatic comeback, slowly reeling in her smaller rival, and eventually regaining the lead. What was happening? Had the guys on Comanche pulled off some sort of miraculous jury rig?

Not quite. Somehow, in the vast sweep of Bass Strait, Rambler had found her very own submerged object, twisting and bending her starboard side daggerboard.

“We have no idea what we hit, we couldn’t see it,” Rambler’s Australian navigator Andrew Cape said by satellite phone a short time ago. “It might have been marine life or flotsam, but it was a solid hit. It shook the boat.

“Our port tack performance has been badly affected, and it is all upwind to Tasman Island, so we have a lot of pain to come.”

Cape estimates that they have lost about 10 percent of their speed on port tack and, because they can’t lift the daggerboard, they are losing a bit on starboard tack as well. “It’s tricky,” Cape says, “ä serious structural problem impeding our boat speed.

“I don’t know what will happen overall. We’ll just try to get the shifts right and do our best.”

So right now we have an American two-horse race, and both horses are running with broken legs. The same broken leg.
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Dec 27, 2015 12:36 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
galrads
galradsgalradsDublin, Ohio USA2,264 Threads 279 Polls 36,283 Posts
It looks like Comanche is still in the lead 1 day, 16 hours and 35 minutes into the race. yay
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Dec 27, 2015 6:24 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
ha ha ha, oh well

With 150 miles to go Comanche is almost 16 miles ahead of Rambler, while any potential challenge from the last standing Australian supermaxi Ragamuffin 100 appears to have evaporated with the morning mist. She trails Rambler by 34 miles, unable to take anything out of the wounded Americans overnight.

doh
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Dec 27, 2015 7:53 PM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
galrads
galradsgalradsDublin, Ohio USA2,264 Threads 279 Polls 36,283 Posts
robplum: ha ha ha, oh well

With 150 miles to go Comanche is almost 16 miles ahead of Rambler, while any potential challenge from the last standing Australian supermaxi Ragamuffin 100 appears to have evaporated with the morning mist. She trails Rambler by 34 miles, unable to take anything out of the wounded Americans overnight.



I haven't checked stats. I wonder if Comanche wins, will they set any records?
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Dec 28, 2015 12:29 AM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
no Wild Oats i think holds fastest trip, here is page with race stats on it




Comanche still may not get line honers, though probably will Rambler may yet over take it and or slight chance AU Ragamuffin 100 could beat both of them to the line, ever so slight outside chance that could occur so don't count the chickens yet matelaugh
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Dec 28, 2015 12:32 AM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
Getting line honors isn't the end and b-all of the race results, the winner wins based on handicap count.
Smaller boats on handicap likely be the over all winner... tongue money don't buy everythingscold
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Dec 28, 2015 12:37 AM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
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Bspoken4
Bspoken4Bspoken4My forest, Western Cape South Africa636 Posts
Not exactly yachting but this article in BBC got my attention:

John Beeden sets non-stop solo Pacific row record - A nice read

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Dec 28, 2015 6:09 AM CST Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live feed
One way to cross Pacific but not one i'd entertain

Comanche has won lines honors and maybe handicap, has berthed safely in Hobart and they all hooking into celebrating

Well done Yankscrying
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