Chris Canty, an experienced sailor from Pittwater, NSW, with his life partner Shona Forsyth will take on the Melbourne Osaka race aboard a Northshore 370 Sailor Moon. Chris has an extensive sailing background, including completing a world circumnavigation in 2017-18 […]
Peter Tardrew and Rod Gunther, long-time sailing friends going way back to their days sailing Sharpies. Together they are preparing their boat Quest, a Nelson Marek 43 for double handed sailing. Peter, who competed in the race back in 2003 […]
‘Lord Jiminy’ a Class 40, hull number 119 owned and skippered Kevin Curtis will sail with co skipper Dylan Ooosterweghel. Lord Jiminy was designed by Verdier and built in 2012, in France, for French skipper Bruno Jourdren where she participated […]
Roaring Forty is a one-off 1997 Lutra BOC Open 40 designed by Adrian Konyendyk of Lutra Design Group and purchased by Kevin Le Poidevin in 2017. The yacht was 3rd on Line Honours and 2nd overall in the 2007 Rolex […]
Jazz Player, a Bakewell-White Z39 yacht, has seen countless ocean adventures. For co-skippers Kayoko Nakano and Mitsuo Nakanishi, this race is a shared dream and dedication to making it come true. The two first met at the awards ceremony […]
Blue Moon II is an Adams 16.4 bought by father and son Ken and Tristan Gourlay. Between them, they have cruised the Med, Caribbean, North Pacific, with a couple of jaunts around the South Pacific and raced in the Launceston, […]
Katsuhiro Yamada and Masayuki Kobayashi, are co-skippers of the IMX-40 yacht Zero. Yamada, who chose the 2000-built yacht four years ago, made several modifications to meet Category 1 race standards, including adding a bulkhead, hard dodger, solar panels, furling jib, […]
Initially, Peter and Neil added their names to the Melbourne Osaka Cup expressions of interest with plans to compete on Neil’s OVNI 435. However, they quickly realised that the extensive modifications required on the aluminum hull wouldn’t meet the stringent […]
Escapade, a Bruce Farr-designed cruiser/racer, will be sailed by father and son duo Robert and Michael Bradley from Hobsons Bay Yacht Club. Robert competed in the 2013 Melbourne Osaka Cup on Escapade with Joey Gough from Scotland, and they won […]
Alive will be sailed by Duncan Hine and Glenn Myler. This Reichel Pugh 66 yacht has been successfully campaigned, winning the Sydney to Hobart in both 2023 and 2018, as well as the 2023 Brisbane to Hamilton Island Race, Bruny […]