The
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event, starting on
Boxing Day (
26th December), racing a distance of around 1170km from
Sydney, NSW to
Hobart,
TAS,
Australia. This race is considered one of the most difficult yacht races in the world, and proves to be one of the sporting highlights around the
Christmas period.
More
Information:
http://goughlui.com/2016/01/05/radio-monitoring-the-2015-sydney-to-hobart-yacht-race-on-hf-radio
Reports 1
VTime UTCDate UTCend Localend
Description
0:00 20151226 0545 1645
JBW HRC signal check
1:40 20151226 0610 1710
Dare Devil retires
4:10 20151226 1136
2236 St Jude keel difficulties (partial)
5:11 20151226 1150
2250 HRC yacht tracker Koa direction enquiry
6:41 20151226 1156
2256 HRC
Comanche phoned in retirement
9:01 20151226 1205 2305 St Jude retires
10:51 20151226 1207
2307 JBW confirmation (not audible)
11:41 20151226 1223
2323 Koa steering damage, Comanche withdraws retirement
15:11 20151226 1229
2329 Perpetual
Loyal retires
17:31 20151226 1239
2339 Koa retires
19:41 20151226 1418 0118
Ichiban (partial - missed transmission)
19:56 20151226 1428 0128
Rambler Green Cape declaration
21:26 20151226 1518 0218 HRC Comanche position enquiry
22:26 20151226 1629 0329
Ragamuffin 100 communications difficulties
27:26 20151226 1651 0351
Maserati communications difficulty
28:46 20151226 1654 0354 HRC relays Green Cape declaration for Maserati
31:26 20151226 1725 0425 Pazazz retires
33:56 20151226 1741 0441
Rush relays
Pretty Fly's retirement
37:56 20151226 1744 0444 Ichiban Green Cape declaration (great signal!)
39:46 20151226 2034 0734 HRC pre-sked signals check
39:56 20151226
2153 0853
Celestial & Victoire declaration, Not a
Diamond contact
43:26 20151226
2201 0901
Unidentified transmission (too weak)
44:56 20151226
2214 0914 Victoire relays
Blackjack's retirement with injury (bad atmospheric)
47:16 20151226
2217 0917 Victoire relays message for Blackjack from JBW
49:06 20151226
2241 0941
Chutzpah relays
Hollywood Boulevard's Green Cape declaration
52:46 20151226 2554 1254 JBW calling She's The
Culprit EPIRB activation
- published: 05 Jan 2016
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