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A Singular Experience: Watching the Sydney-Hobart Start

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By Herb McCormick at 2008-12-29 16:49

Over the years, as either a competitor or a journalist, I've had the opportunity to witness the starts of many of the world's great regattas and ocean races: America's Cups, Whitbreads and Volvos, Newport-Bermuda, the Transpac, and on and on. But on a year-in, year-out, annual basis, there's nothing that compares with the super-charged atmosphere every December 26th in Sydney, Australia, at the start of the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race. The 2008 edition, which got underway on "Boxing Day" at the stroke of one o'clock, local time, was another beauty.

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Ten Years After Tragedy, the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race is Going Strong

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By Herb McCormick at 2008-12-04 16:24

It's been a weird spring down here in Sydney, Australia. If you don't believe me, ask the folks in the southern "alps" of Thredbo, New South Wales. A few days ago, a massive low wound its way up and across the Southern Ocean from Antarctica and pasted the ski resort with a highly unseasonable foot of snow before descending on Sydney and submerging the city under a cold, harsh deluge. Board sports are a way of life Down Under, but this time of year you're supposed to be thinking surfboards, not snowboards.

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Doneski

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By Michael Lovett at 2008-11-14 16:10

I just put the finishing touches on my story about the Vanguard 15 class for the January issue of Sailing World. It's nice to be finished with the story; truthfully, it's been a long time coming. I raced in the event back in June, then again in July, spent the next three months interviewing various V15 characters, then took the last few weeks to write the story and hone it into the carefully scultpted piece of junk that it has become. I hope that's not entirely true about the story being junk, but you'll have to see for yourself when the issue comes out next month.