Race: 2018

Mister Lucky was named after the John Lee Hooker song (They call me Mr Lucky/Bad luck don’t follow me/Everything I touches turn to gold/That mean I can’t do no wrong). Perhaps the lyrics ring true in this case! A member […]

Force Eleven is a modified Adams 11.9 sailed by Tristan Gourlay and Jamie Cooper taking on the Bruny Island Race and a number of distance races double handed in preparation for the upcoming Melbourne to Osaka Yacht Race. The boat […]

International entrant Steve Ho from Hong Kong, attended the Melbourne Osaka Cup 2018 information session at SYC in March 2016 out of interest and signed up that night to undertake the race.  Surfdude is a Felci 45 and has competed […]

Morning Star, an S&S 34 hails from the Tamar Yacht Club where Jo Breen is the current Vice Commodore. Jo has a RYA Yachtmaster Offshore certificate and works for TYC as a dinghy and keel-boat instructor. She also works part […]

The yacht was originally named TryBooking.com after Grant’s last business and has since been changed to Blue Water Tracks after one of Grant’s new project. The boat is a Moody 54 Deck Saloon.  She was purchased new in late 2014 […]

Red Jacket is a Radford designed 12.2 metre yacht named after the clipper sailing ship which broke many passage speed records in the 1860’s and was one of the fastest ships of its time.  Red Jacket won the 1999 Sydney […]

Todd Giraudo and co-skiipper “Dubbo” (David White) will be taking a cake with them to enjoy on the way to Osaka in order to celebrate Dubbo’s 50th birthday.  The name Kraken, came from the black, spiced Carribean rum, bearing the […]

Maverick’s 2018 Osaka campaign originally started off with a boat named “Defiant”, a 13.8 m Van De Stadt cutter sloop which was being built from scratch. (Video clip) As time progressed however, the start line loomed and it became clear […]

Jazz Player was the name given to the boat by New Zealand based original owners Philip & Kim Bratton who first commissioned her back in 2004 when she was based out of Wellington. The Bakewell-White Z39 was the result of […]