One of the best yachting photographers out there must be Carlo Borlenghi. His lens captures the most beautiful, most dramatic and most heroic images off all the big races. We are a huge fan of Carlo at the 52Sails staff.
Check out this video compilation of the 2010 Sydney to Hobart race, which was won by Wild Oats for the fifth time in six years. Amazing performance, amazing race, amazing photography!
Wild Oats XI won this year’s edition of the Sydney - Hobart race for the forth time in a row. Never before in the history of this 628 mile ocean classic has a yacht achieved this.
Although Wild Oats made it very clear that they absolutely wanted to win the Sydney-Hobart this year, the race didn’t start extremely well for skipper Mark Richards. A torn spinnaker soon after the start, a close encounter with a two-meter long shark and the fierce competition by Skandia didn’t make things easy for the maxi’s crew.
By finishing after 1 day, 20 hours and 34 minutes, Wild Oats was just under two hours too late to break their own record-time which they established in the 2005 race. Although they now hold the record of the most consecutive wins and the record-time, they still need a fews years to beat the Morna/Kurrewa IV record. Morna managed to win the race seven times (under two different owners and two different names). If anyone will ever be able to break that record, Wild Oats will be it!
On of the best Maxi’s in the water today is Wild Oats. It finishes top positions in every big race, and has won the last two editions of the Sydney-Hobart race. Their mast exploded and broke into three pieces this week during the Maxi Yacht World championships in Porto Cervo, Italy. The team will work very hard to have Wild Oats ready for this years edition of Sydney-Hobart.
