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The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is an icon of Australia’s summer sport, ranking in popularity with other national events such as the Davis Cup tennis and the Melbourne Cup horse race.

No yearly yachting event in the world attracts such huge media coverage as this race. The course covers a distance of 628 nautical miles from Sydney Harbour to the East coast of Australia, Bass Strait, the Tasmanian east coast, Storm Bay, Derwent River and finally Battery Point in Hobart, Tasmania.

Line Honours goes to the first yacht to cross the finishing line. The Overall Winner is determined by each yacht's finish time adjusted by several factors set down in the prevailing rules. In other words, the fastest boat is often not the Overall Winner.

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Information

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Winners
Present to 1991 1990 to 1976 1975-1961 1960 to 1945

Overall Winner = ow Line Honour = lh
Time is shown as DD:HH:MM:SS Days:Hours:Minutes (and Seconds where available)

	YACHT NAME		DESIGNER
16th 1960 3:07:48:04 ow 4:08:11 lh 32 starting fleet size
ow	Siandra	Graham Newland, NSW	Arthur Robb, England
lh	Kurrewa IV	F & J Livingstone, NSW/VIC	William Fife, UK
15th 1959 3:08:33:02 ow 4:13:33 lh 32 starting fleet size
ow	Cherana	Russ Williams, NSW	Alan Payne, NSW
lh	Solo	Vic Myer, NSW	Alan Payne, NSW
14th 1958 3:13:46:35 ow 5:02:32 lh 22 starting fleet size
ow	Siandra	Graham Newland, NSW	Arthur Robb, England
lh	Solo	Vic Myer, NSW	Alan Payne, NSW
13th 1957 3:00:55:37 ow 3:18:30 lh 20 starting fleet size
ow	Anitra	Trygve & Magnus Halvorsen, NSW	Trygve Halvorsen, NSW
lh	Kurrewa IV	F & J Livingstone, NSW/VIC	William Fife, UK
12th 1956 3:08:33:52 ow 4:04:31 lh 28 starting fleet size
ow	Solo	Vic Myer, NSW	John Alden, USA
lh	Kurrewa IV	F & J Livingstone, NSW/VIC	William Fife, UK
11th 1955 3:09:21:05 ow 4:18:13 lh 17 starting fleet size
ow	Moonbi	HS Evans, NSW	John Alden, USA
lh	Even	FJ Palmer, NSW	J Laurent Giles, UK
10th 1954 3:17:58:01 ow 5:06:09 lh 17 starting fleet size
ow	Solvig	Trygve & Magnus Halvorsen, NSW	T & M Halvorsen, NSW
lh	Kurrewa IV	F & J Livingstone, NSW/VIC	William Fife, UK
9th 1953 3:16:12:12 ow 5:07:12 lh 23 starting fleet size
ow	Ripple	Ron Hobson, NSW	AC Barber, NSW
lh	Solvig	Trygve & Magnus Halvorsen, NSW	T & M Halvorsen, NSW
8th 1952 4:09:56:18 ow 6:02:34 lh 17 starting fleet size
ow	Ingrid	JS Taylor, SA	Bill Atkin, USA
lh	Nocturne	JR Bull, NSW	Alan Payne, NSW
7th 1951 2:19:48:26 ow 4:02:29 lh 14 starting fleet size
ow	Struen Marie	Tom Williamson, NSW	Robert Clark, UK
lh	Margaret Rintoul	AW Edwards, NSW	Phillip Rhodes, USA
6th 1950 3:20:17:13 ow 5:05:28 lh 16 starting fleet size
ow	Nerida	Colin Haselgrove, SA	Alfred Mylne, Scotland
lh	Margaret Rintoul	AW Edwards, NSW	Phillip Rhodes, USA
5th 1949 3:23:39:43 ow 5:10:33 lh 15 starting fleet size
ow	Tradewinds	Mervyn Davey, NSW	Mervyn Davey, NSW
lh	Waltzing Matilda	Phil Davenport, NSW	Jock Muir, TAS
4th 1948 3:07:45:48 ow 4:05:01 lh 18 starting fleet size
ow	Westward	GD Gibson, TAS	Jock Muir, TAS
lh	Morna	Claude Plowman	William Fife, UK
3rd 1947 4:24:56 ow 5:03:03 lh 28 starting fleet size
ow	Westward	GD Gibson, TAS	Jock Muir, TAS
lh	Morna	Claude Plowman	William Fife, UK
2nd 1946 4:11:53:27 ow 5:02:53 lh 19 starting fleet size
ow	Christina	JR Bull, NSW	Lars Halvorsen, NSW
lh	Morna	Claude Plowman	William Fife, UK
1st 1945 6:14:22 ow 6:14:22 lh 9 starting fleet size
ow	Rani	Capt. John Illingworth, UK	AC Barber, NSW
lh	Rani	Capt. John Illingworth, UK	AC Barber, NSW

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