Impressive!

[Drinky Crow]

80th ROLEX Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

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[PaulK]

Interesting protest with poling out of an asymmetrical spinnaker changing podium results. Many withdrawals in the early half, beating into 4m swells. Lots of Doublehanded boats did really well

 

[Drinky Crow]

Can't figure out why Perplexity sailed so far off the rum line. He sail way more miles than he had to lots of boat he was competitive with sailed shorter distance and beat him.

 

[danstanford]

There will be a lot of noise about the benefit of autopilots after this dominant performance by the two handers. I am of the opinion that letting all boats use pilots is the only solution to this issue.
Another causal element is the Time on Time handicap system. The upwind nature of much of the race caused it to take longer which modifies the results by the TOT.