The melee outside the protest room at the 2013 Laser Radial Youth World Championships on Thursday night told the story of a roller coaster day on the water with both reputations and trophies at stake for the leading contenders.

It was all change at the top of the leaderboard in the 2013 Laser Radial Youth World Championships as a tricky day of racing, plagued by big wind shifts in Mussanah and patchy breeze, took its toll on form, rankings and race management.

The Notice of Race for the 2014 ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship set to be held in Cork, Ireland from 3-8 June 2014 has been released.

Sydney plastic surgeon Darryl Hodgkinson's 50-foot Cookson/Farr design yacht Victoire is the overall winner of the 69th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

With all of the "big" boats in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Race safely dockside in Hobart by the early hours of 29 December, attention turned to the fleet still racing on Day 4 of the 628 nautical mile offshore classic.

While not the record-setting pace, Wild Oats XI still made her indelible mark in the record books, taking the line honours win at the 2013 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.

Twenty-four hours after the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet raced out of Sydney Harbour the pace slowed up as the lead boats picked their way down the southeast coast of Australia.

The low pressure system that brought rain to the Sydney area yesterday moved out to sea, providing picture perfect conditions today - a 15-18 knot southeasterly, sunshine and blue skies - for the 94-boat fleet starting the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.