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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
62nd 2006 3:20:17:24 ow 2:08:52:33 lh 78 starting fleet size
ow	Love & War	Lindsay May	Sparkman/Stephens
lh	Wild Oats XI	Mark Richards	Reichel/Pugh, USA
61st 2005 1:18:40:10 ow 1:18:40:10 lh 85 starting fleet size
ow	Wild Oats XI	Bob Oatley	Reichel/Pugh, USA
lh	Wild Oats XI	Bob Oatley	Reichel/Pugh, USA
60th 2004 4:02:52:09 ow 2:16:00:44 lh 116 starting fleet size
ow	Aera	N. Lykiardopulo, UK	Jason Ker, UK
lh	Nicorette *	L. Ingvall, NSW	Simonis/Voogd, SA/NED
59th 2003 3:14:14:17 ow 2:15:14 lh 56 starting fleet size
ow	First National	Michael Spies	Farr/Beneteau, France
lh	Skandia	G. Wharington, VIC	Don Jones, VIC
58th 2002 2:04:46:46 ow 2:04:58:52 lh 57 starting fleet size
ow	Quest	Bob Steel, NSW	Nelson/Marek, USA
lh	Alfa Romeo	Neville Crichton, NZL/AUS	Reichel/Pugh, USA
57th 2001 2:20:46 lh 75 starting fleet size
ow	Bumblebee 5	J Kahibetzer/I Murray, NSW	Murray Burns Dovell, NSW
lh	Assa Abloy	Neil McDonald, Sweden	Farr Yacht Design, USA
56th 2000 2:14:02 lh 82 starting fleet size
ow	Sap Ausmaid	Kevan Pearce, SA	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
lh	Nicorette *	Ludde Ingvall, Sweeden	Simonis/Voogd, SA/NED
55th 1999 1:19:48 lh 79 starting fleet size
ow	Yendys	Geoff Ross, NSW	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
lh	Nokia	S Myralf/M Spies, Denmark	Philippe Brand, France
54th 1998 2:20:03:05 lh 115 starting fleet size
ow	Afr Midnight Rambler	E Psaltis/B Thomas, NSW	Robert Hick, VIC
lh	Sayonara	Larry Ellison, USA	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
53rd 1997 2:23:37 lh 114 starting fleet size
ow	Beau Geste	K Kwok, Hong Kong/China	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
lh	Brindabella	George Snow, ACT	Scott Jutson, Australia
52nd 1996 2:14:07 lh 95 starting fleet size
ow	Ausmaid	George Gjergia, VIC	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
lh	Morning Glory	Hasso Plattner, Germany	Reichel/Pugh, USA
51st 1995 3:00:54 lh 98 starting fleet size
ow	Terra Firma	S. Carlile/Dean Wilson, VIC	Iain Murray, NSW
lh	Sayonara	Larry Ellison, USA	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
50th 1994 2:17:48 lh 371 starting fleet size
ow	Raptor	A. Eichenauer, Germany	Iain Murray, NSW
lh	Tasmania	Robert Clifford, TAS	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
49th 1993 ** 4:00:54 lh 104 starting fleet
ow	IOR: Wild Oats	R. Hickman/B. Foye, NSW	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
ow	IMS: Cuckoos Nest	Nigel Holman, NSW	David Lyons, NSW
lh	Ninety Seven	Andrew Strachan, NSW	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
48th 1992 ** na ow/ior 2:15:44:57 ow/ims 2:19:19 lh 110 starting fleet
ow	IOR: Ragamuffin	Syd Fischer, NSW	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
ow	IMS: Assassin	John Crawford, NSW	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
lh	NZ Endeavour	Grant Dalton, NZ	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
47th 1991 ** 2:20:05 ow/ior 2:21:15 ow/ims 3:01:14 lh 99 starting fleet
ow	IOR: Atara	H Cudmore/J Storey, Ireland	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA
ow	IMS: She's Apples II	David Strong, NSW	John King, NSW
lh	Brindabella	George Snow, ACT	Bruce Farr, NZ/USA

* The winners in 2004 and 2000 were both named Nicorette, but are different
yachts. Both were sponsored by Nicorette, hence the names.

** The International Offshore Rules (ORC) were superseded by the International
Measurement System (IMS). This resulted in two Overall Winners in 1993,
1992 and 1991.

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