Rolex Sydney Hobart: Alive wins, Reichel/Pugh boats dominate.
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After a last-meter duel between Comanche and Law Connect, won by the latter, the Rolex Sydney Hobart delivered its verdicts. Not before engaging the crews at sea in the “usual” grueling upwind in Bass Strait.
In this 2023 edition, the mythical Tattersall Cup, or the overall victory of the regatta awarded to the first boat in the IRC overall standings, went to Phillip Turner’s R/P 66 Alive. Aboard a crew with many race veterans, consisting of skipper Duncan Hine, with Gavin Brady, Adrienne Cahalan, Darren Jones, Shane Gaddes, Stu Bannatyne, Sam Tiedemann, Dean Van Teylingen, Silas Nolan, Brad Farrand, Sean O’Rourke, Logan Andersen, Christopher Cowan.
Second place in the IRC overall ranking was the Maxi 71 Urm Group, another Reichel/Pugh design, third place for Moneypenny, still an RP but 69 feet.
What a boat Alive is, the winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart
Launched in 2006 as a custom design, Alive is 22 meters long but rather narrow, just 4.30 with over 4 meters of draft (with canting keel), for just 11 tons of displacement.
This Reichel Pugh 66 is a real racing war machine. Purchased in early 2014 by Phillip Turner, a Tasmanian businessman, it has broken several records in Australian offshore regattas. Before her name was Alive, she was one of the Black Jacks and last raced at the Sydney Hobart in 2016 when she was 17th overall and eighth at the finish.
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