"Comanche" coming to Hobart as leader

26 / 12 / 2019: "Comanche" leads in its beginnings the legendary Rolex Sydney Hobart of the southern seas

When writing this information, he leads the burden of the Comanche of Jim Cooney, in which the singing of Paul Arrarte militates.

Sydney Bay marked its best gals for the Rolex Sydney Hobart exit... excellent weather, good wind conditions and two thousand ships with tens of thousands of spectators rallied the participants at the start of the 628 nautical mile tour to Hobart.

The Christian Beck Infotrack, in which the Spaniards Antonio 'Ñeti' Cuervas Mons, Carlos Hernández and Willy Altadill are active, was the first to reach the beacon located on the outside of the bay and to set a South direction in a spectacular set.

The fastest in the sprint that ejected the fleet out of the bay would be the Christian Beck Infotrack, one of the five 100-foot supermaxis of the grill, which this year counts on board with the Antonio 'Ñeti' Cuervas- Mons, the canary Carlos Hernández and the Catalan Willy Altadill. They would be followed by Wild Oats XI (winner of the last edition), SHK Scallywag, Black Jack and Comanche. From that point on, a spectacular, built-in South direction began and the first tactical decisions came into play. Comanche decided to go inland in search of the most favourable conditions for its radical design.

25 / 12 / 2019: All prepared for tomorrow to begin the Rolex Sidney Hobart

With 628 nautical miles, the Rolex Sydney Hobart tour is a rigorous test for man and machine

The Rolex Sydney Hobart faces its 75th edition exhibiting muscle: five 100-foot supermaxis will compete among an impressive fleet of 170 ships, the largest since the event's gold weddings in 1994. The most important race in the Southern Hemisphere, 628 nautical miles between Australia's two oldest cities, is an essential quote of the ocean competition calendar since 1945 and is part of the Rolex sailing dossier since 2002.

The celebration of this 75th edition has attracted no less than 170 ships, the largest participation since the 50th anniversary of 1994, when the hardly repeatable figure of 371 ships was reached.

Calls to lead the fleet from the exit and fight for victory in real time stand out five supermaxis of 100 feet long (30.5 meters). The most laureate ship in the history of the event, the Wild Oats XI of the Oatley family, will not be missing, once again patronized by Mark Richards. Winner in real time in nine of its 14 participations since it was launched in 2005 (including the 2018 edition), the Reichel-Pugh design has been developed with constant modifications and put in place to defend a well-deserved fame of maximum aspiration to triumph.

Its rivals will be the Comanche of Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant (the fastest ship in history to complete the tour, with a 1 day, 9 hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds mark, established in 2017); Peter Harburg's Black Jack; Christian Beck's InfoTrack (winner in 2016 as Perpetual Loyal); and the Hongkong Seng Huang Lee's SHK Scallywag. The crews of these five colossus are a whole sample of the world's top ocean navigation experts, the only ones who can extract the maximum performance from these competition machines equipped with the latest advances in naval engineering.

The Tattersall Cup awards the winner in compensation under IRC formula, a league in which they literally all play and that a priori does not know of favorites. The participation of a dozen teams who already know what it's like to win the Rolex Sydney Hobart, including the title defender, the Reichel Pugh 66 Alive armed by Philip Turner and patronized by Duncan Hine, is guaranteed. Neither will the TP52 Ichi Ban (winner 2017) and Quest (winner as Balance 2015), the Cookson 50 Oskana (winner as Victoire 2013), the Sparkman & Stephens 47 Love & War (1974, 1978 and 2006) and Wild Oats XI (2005 and 2012). Among the debutantes is the Beneteau 47.7 Tribal Warrior, the first crew ship entirely formed by Australian Aboriginal in the history of the event. This year, participants from China, the United States, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Poland and the United Kingdom join the local army.