Wild Oats XI is a state-of-the-art maxi yacht designed by Reichel/Pugh and built by Mcconaghy Boats, five months after her near-sistership Alfa Romeo II, from which she borrowed extensively. [1] She was launched in December 2005 after a 9-month build and won her first Sydney-Hobart the same month. She is distinctively narrow with a 5.1 m (17 ft) beam and originally featured "canting ballast ...
Without Wild Oats XI, the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Has a Boat-Size
Dec. 23, 2023. When the hundred-foot Maxi yachts hit the starting line for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, one absence will loom as a powerful presence. There will be no Wild Oats XI, and Wild ...
Rivals predict Wild Oats XI will be back
Dec 23, 2023 - 1.21pm. Wild Oats XI's would-be rivals for Sydney to Hobart line honours have backed the champion yacht to return to the fleet in 2024. The most successful yacht in Sydney to ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
Wild Oats XI returns in 2022 racing under a refreshed name, Hamilton Island Wild Oats.Mark Richards and crew recently returned to racing in the fluky 2022 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race and finished third on Line Honours behind Andoo Comanche and Black Jack.. Wild Oats XI last competed in the Rolex Sydney Hobart in 2019 and finished third over the line, pipping SHK Scallywag by 38 seconds ...
Disappointed rivals sow seeds for return of Wild Oats XI
Wild Oats XI last won the Sydney to Hobart in 2018. Credit: ... skipper Matt Allen is looking to be the first yacht to win the honour three times after taking out the cup in 2017 and 2019.
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
Wild Oats XI secured her sixth line honours victory under the guidance of Mark Richards in last year's Rolex Sydney Hobart, broke her own race record, which now stands at 1 day, 18 hours, 23 minutes 12 seconds and won the race overall. It was the second time the super maxi had achieved this historic treble and the only boat to do so twice in the race's history.
Wild Oats XI
Wild Oats XI was launched only a matter of days before her first Rolex Sydney Hobart race. She proved to be so fast that she blasted her way to a rare 'Triple Crown' victory - line honours, a race record time and victory on handicap. Her time for the 628 nautical mile course was 1 day, 18 hours, 40 minutes, and 10 seconds, more than an ...
The Yacht
The supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI, owned by the Oatley family, is one of the fastest and most technologically advanced ocean racing yachts in the world. Her record in Australia¹s international offshore classic, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, is unrivalled. The sleek, 30-metre (100ft) long ocean racing thoroughbred is undisputedly the most ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
Brett Eagle purchased Wild Rose in 2020 and reverted to her original name Wild Oats.The late Roger Hickman, crewed by male and female amateurs, won the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart with her as Wild Rose and scored wins in the Australian and NSW IRC Championships, among many great victories with this famous yacht, including taking Division 4 of the Rolex Sydney Hobart in 2011, 2012, 2013.
Sydney Hobart: No go for Wild Oats XI
As a former race record holder and a nine-times line honors winner, the 30-metre (100ft) supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI is undisputedly the most successful yacht in the 75-year history of the ...
Wild Oats XI: Bruised but not beaten
Launched in 2005, the 100-foot Wild Oats XI is as much about the 628nm Sydney Hobart Yacht Race as family is about Christmas. The two go together, so the thought of the supermaxi not being on the ...
Sydney to Hobart yacht race
Hamilton Island Wild Oats is seven nautical miles from the leader, going at 22.3 knots. Black Jack (20.4 knots) is now 8.2 nautical miles from the leader. Copy link
Wild Oats XI
Wild Oats XI, Hamilton Island. 20,065 likes. Official Facebook account for WildOats XI - 9 Times Line Honours winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart. O
Wild Oats XI out of Sydney Hobart yacht race but not sailing towards
Steve Jarvin after Wild Oats XI took line honours in the 2107 Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Picture: Richard Jupe. Jarvin, 61, who has sailed on WOXI in all her Hobart races, will be on the 72-foot ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024
Brett Eagle bought Wild Rose in 2020 and reverted to her original name Wild Oats. With partners, Gordon Smith and Marc Skjellerup, the Farr 43 placed 26 th in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart. When owned by Roger Hickman, she won the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart, with division wins the previous three years. With partners Bruce Foye and Lance Peckman ...
Sydney to Hobart: Sandy Oatley's team 'gobsmacked' by Wild Oats XI
In this photo provided by Rolex, the yacht Wild Oats XI is under way after the start of this year's Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Credit: Daniel Forster "We've got to sit back and assess what went ...
Sydney to Hobart yacht race sees first electric yacht J-Bird enter
An electric yacht will race in this year's Sydney to Hobart for the first time — making history as cannons fire at the starting line. Non-profit conservation group Ocean Crusaders will launch 'J ...
Wild Oats XI: A giant of Australian racing
Wild Oats XI was commissioned by well-known winemaker the late Robert Oatley AO in 2005, the largest in a series of successful ocean racers he had owned and sailed on. It was designed by celebrated team Reichel/Pugh Yacht Design in San Diego USA. A protégé of Doug Petersen, John Reichel's partnership with UK yacht designer Jim Pugh has ...
Wild Rose declared overall winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race
Wild Rose, Bob Oatley's first grand prix ocean racer, sailed into Hobart yesterday, her owner Roger Hickman having to wait until today to be declared overall winner of the race with the 29-year-old yacht. On Sunday, Bob Oatley's 100-foot supermaxi Wild Oats XI logged a record eighth line honours victory after an epic battle with brand new super ...
Wild Oats XI
Earlier this year, Wild Oats XI claimed her third line honours win in the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race and set a new Open race record of 22hrs, 3mins, 46secs, finally beating the 13 year record set by conventional yacht, Brindabella.The super maxi also broke her own 2010 Cabbage Tree Island Race record in November, slicing nearly two hours ...
Sydney to Hobart a 'thriller in slow motion' as four do battle for line
The lead has been changing throughout day two with just 5 nautical miles separating the four yachts as they crossed Bass Strait. Wild Oats XI is keeping pace with the leaders' pack, after earlier ...
Bob Oatley dies, Wild Oats, Sydney to Hobart
January 10th, 2016 12:00 am. AS a little boy with a big imagination Bob Oatley used to pretend he was racing round the world in his dinkey canoe propelled by a bed sheet sail on Sydney Harbour ...
Wild Oats XI
She is the reigning line honours champion after a thrilling race-long battle with Black Jack, Comanche and InfoTrack, which finished in that order. It occasioned Wild Oats XI's record ninth line honours victory, an accomplishment destined to remain unbeaten. Wild Oats XI pipped 100ft Black Jack (by 3mins 31secs - the closest finish in 15 ...
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Wild Oats XI is a state-of-the-art maxi yacht designed by Reichel/Pugh and built by Mcconaghy Boats, five months after her near-sistership Alfa Romeo II, from which she borrowed extensively. [1] She was launched in December 2005 after a 9-month build and won her first Sydney-Hobart the same month. She is distinctively narrow with a 5.1 m (17 ft) beam and originally featured "canting ballast ...
Dec. 23, 2023. When the hundred-foot Maxi yachts hit the starting line for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, one absence will loom as a powerful presence. There will be no Wild Oats XI, and Wild ...
Dec 23, 2023 - 1.21pm. Wild Oats XI's would-be rivals for Sydney to Hobart line honours have backed the champion yacht to return to the fleet in 2024. The most successful yacht in Sydney to ...
Wild Oats XI returns in 2022 racing under a refreshed name, Hamilton Island Wild Oats.Mark Richards and crew recently returned to racing in the fluky 2022 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race and finished third on Line Honours behind Andoo Comanche and Black Jack.. Wild Oats XI last competed in the Rolex Sydney Hobart in 2019 and finished third over the line, pipping SHK Scallywag by 38 seconds ...
Wild Oats XI last won the Sydney to Hobart in 2018. Credit: ... skipper Matt Allen is looking to be the first yacht to win the honour three times after taking out the cup in 2017 and 2019.
Wild Oats XI secured her sixth line honours victory under the guidance of Mark Richards in last year's Rolex Sydney Hobart, broke her own race record, which now stands at 1 day, 18 hours, 23 minutes 12 seconds and won the race overall. It was the second time the super maxi had achieved this historic treble and the only boat to do so twice in the race's history.
Wild Oats XI was launched only a matter of days before her first Rolex Sydney Hobart race. She proved to be so fast that she blasted her way to a rare 'Triple Crown' victory - line honours, a race record time and victory on handicap. Her time for the 628 nautical mile course was 1 day, 18 hours, 40 minutes, and 10 seconds, more than an ...
The supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI, owned by the Oatley family, is one of the fastest and most technologically advanced ocean racing yachts in the world. Her record in Australia¹s international offshore classic, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, is unrivalled. The sleek, 30-metre (100ft) long ocean racing thoroughbred is undisputedly the most ...
Brett Eagle purchased Wild Rose in 2020 and reverted to her original name Wild Oats.The late Roger Hickman, crewed by male and female amateurs, won the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart with her as Wild Rose and scored wins in the Australian and NSW IRC Championships, among many great victories with this famous yacht, including taking Division 4 of the Rolex Sydney Hobart in 2011, 2012, 2013.
As a former race record holder and a nine-times line honors winner, the 30-metre (100ft) supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI is undisputedly the most successful yacht in the 75-year history of the ...
Launched in 2005, the 100-foot Wild Oats XI is as much about the 628nm Sydney Hobart Yacht Race as family is about Christmas. The two go together, so the thought of the supermaxi not being on the ...
Hamilton Island Wild Oats is seven nautical miles from the leader, going at 22.3 knots. Black Jack (20.4 knots) is now 8.2 nautical miles from the leader. Copy link
Wild Oats XI, Hamilton Island. 20,065 likes. Official Facebook account for WildOats XI - 9 Times Line Honours winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart. O
Steve Jarvin after Wild Oats XI took line honours in the 2107 Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Picture: Richard Jupe. Jarvin, 61, who has sailed on WOXI in all her Hobart races, will be on the 72-foot ...
Brett Eagle bought Wild Rose in 2020 and reverted to her original name Wild Oats. With partners, Gordon Smith and Marc Skjellerup, the Farr 43 placed 26 th in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart. When owned by Roger Hickman, she won the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart, with division wins the previous three years. With partners Bruce Foye and Lance Peckman ...
In this photo provided by Rolex, the yacht Wild Oats XI is under way after the start of this year's Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Credit: Daniel Forster "We've got to sit back and assess what went ...
An electric yacht will race in this year's Sydney to Hobart for the first time — making history as cannons fire at the starting line. Non-profit conservation group Ocean Crusaders will launch 'J ...
Wild Oats XI was commissioned by well-known winemaker the late Robert Oatley AO in 2005, the largest in a series of successful ocean racers he had owned and sailed on. It was designed by celebrated team Reichel/Pugh Yacht Design in San Diego USA. A protégé of Doug Petersen, John Reichel's partnership with UK yacht designer Jim Pugh has ...
Wild Rose, Bob Oatley's first grand prix ocean racer, sailed into Hobart yesterday, her owner Roger Hickman having to wait until today to be declared overall winner of the race with the 29-year-old yacht. On Sunday, Bob Oatley's 100-foot supermaxi Wild Oats XI logged a record eighth line honours victory after an epic battle with brand new super ...
Earlier this year, Wild Oats XI claimed her third line honours win in the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race and set a new Open race record of 22hrs, 3mins, 46secs, finally beating the 13 year record set by conventional yacht, Brindabella.The super maxi also broke her own 2010 Cabbage Tree Island Race record in November, slicing nearly two hours ...
The lead has been changing throughout day two with just 5 nautical miles separating the four yachts as they crossed Bass Strait. Wild Oats XI is keeping pace with the leaders' pack, after earlier ...
January 10th, 2016 12:00 am. AS a little boy with a big imagination Bob Oatley used to pretend he was racing round the world in his dinkey canoe propelled by a bed sheet sail on Sydney Harbour ...
She is the reigning line honours champion after a thrilling race-long battle with Black Jack, Comanche and InfoTrack, which finished in that order. It occasioned Wild Oats XI's record ninth line honours victory, an accomplishment destined to remain unbeaten. Wild Oats XI pipped 100ft Black Jack (by 3mins 31secs - the closest finish in 15 ...