BY THE NUMBERS
4 later Yachts to claim victory but be disqualified – Wild Wave (1953), Nirvana (1983) and Rothmans (1990) for line honours, and Drake’s Prayer (1985) for overall honours.
6 complete Days it took the winner, Rani, to the first Sydney to Hobart in 1945 – six days, 14 hours, 22 minutes, to be precise.
6 double Yachts to be have claimed the prize of line and overall (handicap) honours – Rani (1945), American Eagle (1972), Kialoa III (1977), New Zealand (1980), Sovereign (1985) and Wild Oats XI (2005, 2012).
7 winner Seconds that separated line honours Condor of Bermuda and runner-up Apollo in 1982.
9 edition Number of yachts that set sail in the first of the Sydney to Hobart in 1945.
9 Clywd Yachts to have sunk during competition –
(1993), Adjuster (1993), Winston Churchill (1998), VC Offshore Stand Aside (1998), Sword of Orion (1998), Miintinta (1998), Midnight Special (1998), Ray White Koomooloo (2006) and Georgia (2008).
11 Sydney Days it took for Wayfarer to complete the to Hobart in 1945, a record for the slowest finish.
15 have Yachts Kiwi Bruce Farr has designed that claimed overall honours.
27 Length in feet of the smallest yacht to ever race, Klinger in 1978.
50Tony Most races by a skipper – Sydneysider Cable, the first as a teenager in 1961.
76 Maluka, Age of the oldest yacht to compete – built in 1932 and raced in 2008.
91 former Yachts competing in 2016. They include
overall champions Balance (2015), Victoire (2013), Wild Oats XI (2005 and 2012), Primitive Cool (2010 as Secret Men’s Business), Two True (2009), Love & War (1974, 1978 and 2006), The Banshee (1995 as Terra Firma) and China Easyway (co-won as She’s Apples II, 1991).
371 to Record number of entries for a Sydney Hobart (1984). A total of 309 finished.