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The Shorthanded Ocean Racing Association of Australia Inc (SHORAA) is proud to announce the Race Around Australia 2028 (RAA), a doublehanded yacht race, forty years after and in the spirit of the 1988 Bicentennial race.

After weeks of unseasonably mild temperatures and gentle breezes it was perhaps predictable that we would wake up on Christmas Eve morning to windows rattling in their casements as it blew old boots straight out of the East.

The Lark Class has had a really strong 2025, but 2026 already looks to be even stronger with 40 to 50 boats expected for the Lark Nationals in Fowey.

Sixty-two kids and teenagers with their home-made model sailing yachts gathered at Setley Pond in the New Forest for the 43rd annual edition of the traditional Boxing Day races across the pond.

A selection of official images from the 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

After the boats exited the Heads and began the real slog towards yet more waves, Bow Caddy were in the air to capture these images of the maxis in all their glory.

It has been one day since the epic start of the 80th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, and the front of the fleet has entered Bass Strait and expect to face an increase in southerly winds and swell.

So, at what is basically 24 hours since the gun went off for the start of the 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, things have been good, from a damage point of view, anyway.

Master Lock Comanche continues to lead the 2025 Rolex Sydney Hobart this morning, but there is still little in it – just 14 nautical miles separates the top six, LawConnect just 3nm astern of the leader.

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