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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
31st 1975 2:13:16:56 ow 2:14:36 lh 102 starting fleet size
ow	Rampage	Peter Packer, WA	Bob Miller, NSW
lh	Kialoa III	Jim Kilroy, USA	Sparkman & Stephens USA
30th 1974 3:13:25:02 ow 3:13:51 lh 63 starting fleet size
ow	Love & War	Peter Kurts, NSW	Sparkman & Stephens USA
lh	Ondine III	SA (Huey) Long, USA	Britton Chance, USA
29th 1973 2:17:28:28 ow 3:01:32 lh 92 starting fleet size
ow	Ceil III	Bill Turnbull, Hong Kong	Bob Miller, NSW
lh	Helsal	Tony Fisher, NSW	Joe Adams, NSW
28th 1972 3:04:42 ow 3:04:42 lh 79 starting fleet size
ow	American Eagle	Ted Turner, USA	Bid Luders, USA
lh	American Eagle	Ted Turner, USA	Bid Luders, USA
27th 1971 3:03:14:34 ow 2:14:36 lh 79 starting fleet size
ow	Pathfinder	Brin Wilson, NZ	Sparkman & Stephens USA
lh	Kialoa II	Jim Kilroy, USA	Sparkman & Stephens USA
26th 1970 3:10:07:39 ow 3:14:06 lh 61 starting fleet size
ow	Pacha	Sir R Crichton-Brown, NSW	Camper & Nicholson, UK
lh	Buccaneer	Tom Clark, NZ	John Spencer, NZ
25th 1969 3:04:25:57 ow 3:15:07 lh 79 starting fleet size
ow	Morning Cloud	Edward Health, UK	Sparkman & Stephens USA
lh	Crusade	Sir Max Aitken, UK	Alan Gurney, UK
24th 1968 3:13:3852 ow 4:30:20 lh 67 starting fleet size
ow	Koomooloo	Denis O'Neil, NSW	Ted Kaufman, NSW
lh	Ondine II	SA (Huey) Long, USA	Bill Tripp, USA
23th 1967 3:16:39:15 ow 4:04:10 lh 67 starting fleet size
ow	Rainbow II	Chris Bouzaid, NZ	Sparkman & Stephens USA
lh	Pen Duick III	Eric Tabarly, France	Eric Tabarly, France
22nd 1966 4:02:46:24 ow 4:08:39 lh 46 starting fleet size
ow	Cadence	HS Mason, NSW	W Ward/R Swanson, NSW
lh	Fidelis	JV Davern, NZ	Knud Reimers, Germany
21st 1965 3:10:03:26 ow 3:20:30 lh 53 starting fleet size
ow	Freya	Trygve & Magnus Halvorsen, NSW	Trygve Halvorsen, NSW
lh	Stormvogel	C Brynzeel, South Africa	Vanderstadt, Holland
20th 1964 3:05:58:14 ow 3:20:05 lh 38 starting fleet size
ow	Freya	Trygve & Magnus Halvorsen, NSW	Trygve Halvorsen, NSW
lh	Astor	Peter Warner	William Fife, UK
19th 1963 3:06:03:17 ow 4:10:53 lh 44 starting fleet size
ow	Freya	Trygve & Magnus Halvorsen, NSW	Trygve Halvorsen, NSW
lh	Astor	Peter Warner	William Fife, UK
18th 1962 2:12:45:14 ow 3:03:46 lh 42 starting fleet size
ow	Solo	Vic Myer, NSW	Alan Payne, NSW
lh	Ondine	SA (Huey) Long, USA	Bill Tripp, USA
17th 1961 3:03:57:31 ow 4:04:42 lh 35 starting fleet size
ow	Rival	A Burgin & N Rundle, NSW	Alan Buchanan, England
lh	Astor	Peter Warner	William Fife, UK

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