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New owner wants to build Fischer legacy

Sydney to Hobart hope: Scallywag during the Big Boat Challenge.

He lives overseas, but Scallywag owner Seng Huang Lee grew up watching the Sydney to Hobart from close to the start line and wants to continue building the legacy set by his boat's previous owner, Syd Fischer.

Yachts hit head-on in fatal sailing accident

David Booth, the yachtsman who died in a sailing accident on Saturday.

The two yachts involved in Saturday's tragic accident, which killed one man and left another in a critical condition fighting to keep his leg, hit head-on as one approached a mark off Clareville in Sydney's Pittwater, and the other began its run downwind.

Syd Fischer is ready, willing and 'likely' to go again

Super-maxi Ragamuffin 100 owner and skipper Syd Fischer sits onboard.

After Syd Fischer declared that he will likely race the Sydney to Hobart for a 49th time next year after skippering his Ragamuffin 100 to second on line honours on Tuesday, his sailing master David Witt beamed and then quipped: "If he is stupid enough to keep going then I am."

Ragamuffin 100 wins nail-biting finish for second place

Race to the finish: Rambler 88 was edged out by Ragamuffin 100.

Super-maxi Ragamuffin 100, owned and skippered by Syd Fischer, took second place on line honours in the Sydney to Hobart on Tuesday morning in a nail-biter of a finish with Rambler 88  – albeit an agonisingly slow nail-biter as winds virtually petered out.

Foreign raider calls for more racing before the big one

Race to the finish: Rambler 88 was edged out by Ragamuffin 100.

Sydney to Hobart organisers should schedule a three day regatta of harbour racing before the Boxing Day start to provide foreign entries more value for their campaigns, says American George David, the owner and skipper of the US 88-footer Rambler 88.