Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Sydney to Hobart Race

Every year on Boxing Day, a fleet of sailboats leaves Sydney Harbour to race to the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania in Hobart.  The race is famous in part for the tragedy of its 1998 race where only 44 boats made it out of the fleet of 115 boats.  Six people were lost when the fleet encountered a Force 12 storm.

Here is the fleet distribution as of this morning.  The red line is the rhumb line from the entry to Sydney Harbour to the approach to Hobart.



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