Only 50 of the 88 participating ships managed to complete the 628 nautical miles tour between Sydney and Hobart as a testimony to the conditions they found in the feared Tasmanian Sea

The 76 edition of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has consolidated the formidable reputation of the most important race in the southern hemisphere, which has been organized since 1945 by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia with the support of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania... the race has had the sponsorship and collaboration of Rolex for no more than 20 years.

The overall victory after the correction of times, was for Matt Allen's TP52 Ichi Ban... winner earlier in 2017 and 2019, the Australian team became thus the third able to get three titles in the history of the race and the first to chain two consecutive victories since the Freya got it in 1965.

In the struggle for real-time victory among the maxis... the SHK Scallywag 100 came out in the head of Sydney Bay, but a problem with its candles allowed its rivals to pass it at the beginning of the New South Wales coast crossing. The LawConnect would then exchange leadership with the Black Jack until Peter Harburg's ship, with a Monegasque flag and Australian crew, took advantage of the downfall in wind intensity to build an advantage that his rival would not be able to neutralize by going back to the ever-complicated Derwent River to Hobart. Black Jack stopped the crone in two days, 12 hours, 37 minutes and 17 seconds, far from the record set in 2017 by Comanche in one day, nine hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds, but enough to enter the gold book of the race as 76th real-time winner since the first edition of 1945.

2021-12-23: After two wins... the TP52 Ichi Ban to make history again at the Rolex Sidney Hobart

The departure of the 76th Rolex Sydney Hobart will be held at 13: 00 next Sunday (local time, 3: 00 a.m. in Peninsular Spain). It will be broadcast live through the official website of the race, www.rolexsydneyhobart.com

The most important ocean race in the South Hemisphere will feature in its 76th edition about a hundred boats, an eminently Australian fleet due to the restrictions on entry into the country associated with the pandemic.

The legendary 628 nautical mile tour from Sydney to Hobart and a meteorological part that adds uncertainty and emotion to the struggle for the title are ahead.

The TP52 Ichi Ban seeks a historic third absolute victory after being imposed on two of the last three editions. The departure will take place on Sunday, 26 December.

The applicants will take the exit in Sydney Bay next Sunday, December 26, the one known as Boxing Day. The Rolex Sidney Hobart is a must of southern summer and is followed live literally throughout the country, both through live broadcast on national television and on the bay itself, which is filled with ships of spectators and public on the coast to fire the participants. Two Australian icons act as an exceptional backdrop for the show of the exit: the Sydney Opera and the Harbour Bridge, the imposing steel bridge from which fireworks are launched every New Year's Eve.