“The sky looked wrong, the waves look wrong, everything was wrong. “The waves are coming from different directions, which didn’t make any sense. And all your senses are assaulted with sound and sights ...

Richard Winning was skipper of the veteran yacht Winston Churchill in the 1998 Sydney to Hobart. It sank after falling off a massive wave. Three of her nine crew were later lost at sea. It’s not hard ...

It started as a race to Hobart and became a fight for survival. Two decades on, tales told at the end of the race are still vivid. Sailing writer AMANDA LULHAM remembers. From the wharves of ...

Liz Wardley is now one of the world’s most respected around-the-world sailors. But in 1998 she was a skinny 19-year-old contesting her second Sydney to Hobart in the height of the killer storm. The ...

Eden’s Ian Whiter is clocking up 33 years as a volunteer radio operator with Marine Rescue NSW, formerly the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol.

The Sydney to Hobart yacht race celebrates its 80th anniversary this year and few sporting events have the same mystique and memorable moment - good and bad. While a relatively short distance of 628 ...