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Line honours dockside update and Skandia’s home

Rolex Sydney Hobart - News Update
12:23 AEDT December 28, 2008

Article By the Rolex Sydney Hobart Media Team

December 28, 2008.

At 09:34:14 AEDT Bob Oatley"s, Reichel Pugh designed, 30m (98-foot) supermaxi Wild Oats XI crossed the Hobart finish line at the end of the 2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart, to take line honours in the 64th edition of the 628 nautical-mile race. This is Wild Oats XI’s fourth straight line honours victory.

Bob Oatley's Wild Oats XI, skippered by Mark Richards (pictured), arriving to Hobart's docks after taking out Line Honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008.

Photo © Peter Andrews.

Wild Oats XI completed the course in 1 day 20 hours, 34 minutes and fourteen seconds; just under two hours outside the course record she set in 2005.

At a dockside ceremony at Constitution Dock, Bob Oatley and skipper Mark Richards were presented with a Rolex Chronometer and the Illingworth Trophy for being first yacht across the finish line.

Bob Oatley's Wild Oats XI, skippered by Mark Richards, alongside in Hobart after taking out Line Honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008.

Photo © Peter Andrews.

Second boat home was Grant Wharington’s Don Jones designed, 30m (98-foot) Skandia, which held the lead over Wild Oats XI for much of yesterday and had threatened to steal the show.

Grant Wharington's Skandia facing some incredible wind squalls on the nose for the last couple of kilometres to the Hobart finishing line, for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008.

Photo © Peter Andrews.

The countdown clock is now running for the overall corrected-time victory, with Bob Steel"s Quest currently lying in pole position according to the Yacht Tracker.

Bob Steel's TP52 Quest on Sydney Harbour during the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge, a lead-up race to the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008.

Photo © Peter Andrews.

Bob Steel's TP52 Quest on Sydney Harbour during the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge, a lead-up race to the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008. Photo copyright Peter Andrews.

The 100-boat fleet that started the 64th Rolex Sydney Hobart has crews representing the USA, UK, New Zealand, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia and New Caledonia as well as every Australian state.

Official race website: www.rolexsydneyhobart.com

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