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Hall of Fame

The CYCA Hall of Fame was established in 2018, recognising Members past and present with notable involvement to the Club and sailing achievements.

Members of the CYCA Hall of Fame by year of induction:

Lou Abrahams

Richard hammond, peter kurts, iain murray am, sir james hardy obe, gordon ingate oam, alan payne am, kay cottee ao, mervyn davey, jack earl oa, grant simmer oam, stan darling, syd fischer am obe.

• Magnus Halvorsen
• Trygve Halvorsen

Captain John Illingworth

Hugh treharne oam, michael york oam.

Lou Abrahams was a Member of the CYCA from 1970 until 2014. He was also a Member of Sandringham Yacht Club (SYC) from 1964, where he was Commodore in 1972/73.

The Junior Sailing Centre at SYC is named after Lou due to his influence on young sailors and his generosity.

He competed in 44 Sydney Hobart Yacht Races between 1963 and 2007. The first with Sir Arthur Warner on Winston Churchill before becoming an owner and racing 43 consecutive races in eight yachts.

He won the race twice, first with Challenge 11 in 1983 and the second with Ultimate Challenge in 1989. He was also second overall in 1991. With the 1983 victory, Challenge II became the first Victorian yacht to win the race.

Lou’s ocean racing success was not restricted to the Hobart.

• He was Australia’s Team Manager for the 1979 Admiral’s Cup, which Australia won.
• He won the 1980 Great Circle Around Tasmania with Vittoria.
• He raced in the Kenwood/Clipper Cup in 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990 and 1996.
• He was part of the Admiral’s Cup team in 1985 & 1987 – on Challenge III and Ultimate Challenge.
• He was third overall on Challenge in the 2002 and 2006 Rolex Sydney Hobarts.
• He was first in the Sydney 38 Division on Challenge in the 2005 and 2006 Rolex Sydney Hobarts.
• He was Sydney 38 National Champion on four occasions.

In recognition of his achievements, Lou was awarded:

• Victorian Yachtsman of the Year – 1983
• CYCA Ocean Racing Yachtsman of the year – 1990
• CYCA Veteran Yachtsperson of the year – 1996, 2002 and 2006

Lou Abrahams was inducted into the CYCA Hall of Fame in 2023.

Better known in the sailing fraternity as ‘Sighty’, Richard Hammond went from a young skiffy out of Manly to become one of the most renowned ocean racing navigators.

Sighty was a Member of the CYCA from 1967 until he passed in 2013. He competed in his first Sydney Hobart in 1952 aboard Wanderer (the stories of his early voyages were legendary) before joining Russell Slade aboard Janzoon and Janzoon II, where he met his lifelong sailing mates Colin Betts and Richard Norman.

He went on to become the first yachtsman to compete in 40 Hobarts, winning overall in 1968 aboard Koomooloo , taking Line Honours the following year on Crusade and being instrumental in navigating Sovereign to the line and handicap double in 1987. In addition, he navigated yachts to second and third places in several races.

Australia’s involvement in the Admiral’s Cup was a particular favourite of Richard’s, where he represented Australia seven times, including seven Fastnet races, all as navigator and becoming the only Australian to be on two winning Australian team sin 1967 and 1979.

He was instrumental in Australia’s success over the years, with his intimate knowledge of English conditions, and was mentor to all Australian Teams from 1967 to 1989.

Sighty was also part of several Australian teams in the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii, winning the inaugural event in 1988.

Richard Hammond was inducted into the CYCA Hall of Fame in 2023.

Peter Kurts was a Member of the CYCA for 38 years from 1967 until he passed in 2005. Peter competed in 31 Sydney Hobarts, winning twice overall, a second place and two fourth places, as well as six divisional wins.

Peter competed in his first race in 1964 aboard Kaleena before launching the first of his five yachts, Mister Christian , followed by the famous Love & War, in which he won two of her three Hobarts, becoming only the second boat to achieve three wins in the history of the race.

He also built Once More Dear Friends, Drake’s Prayer and Madeline’s Daughter , all successful yachts which in his career carried him to:

• Win the 1966 Brisbane to Gladstone Race.
• Win the 1967 Sydney to Brisbane Race.
• Represent NSW and Australia in six Southern Cross Cups, three as Team Captain.
• Have the top scoring yacht in the 1987 Southern Cross Cup as a member of the winning team.
• Win the 1973/74 Blue Water Pointscore with Love & War
• Be owner/skipper of six challenges for the Admiral’s Cup (only Syd Fischer has done more) with a second and third place.
• Be the Australian Team Captain twice.
• Compete in eight Fastnet races.
• 1983 Australian Team at Kenwood Cup in Hawaii.
• Win Line Honours in the 1980 Bermuda Race aboard Bumblebee 4.
• Helm Nefertiti as Trial Horse for Dame Pattie in 1967 America’s Cup in Newport, Rhode Island.

Peter Kurts was inducted into the CYCA Hall of Fame in 2023.

A skiff sailor, yacht designer, ocean racer, Olympian, America’s Cup helmsman, Regatta Director, High Performance Manager for Australian Sailing and an innovator in yachting technology. Iain Murray AM is the complete package.

He is a World Champion in 18-footers and Etchells, as well as Australian Champion in Cherubs, 18-footers & Etchells.

A Member of the CYCA since 1985, Iain has competed in 27 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Races, winning three times, including as the designer of three winning yachts and crewing aboard 10 Line Honours victors, including in 2022 aboard Andoo Comanche.

He won the 1973 Cherub Championship at age 14, in a boat he designed and built himself at 12. He won six World 18-footer Championships in a row from 1977

Iain was the first to use carbon fibre in boat building in Australia with John McConaghy.

His first Hobart of 26 was in 1977, when he sailed with Denis O’Neil and Peter Kurts, before skippering Bumblebee 5 to win the 2001 Hobart on the yacht he also designed and built.

Iain competed in three Admiral’s Cups, winning in 2003.

He was the Australian Yachtsman of the Year in 1984 and was awarded an Order of Australia in 1991.

In the America’s Cup, Iain was skipper of the 12 Metre Advance in 1983 and stayed on in Newport to skipper trial horse for Australia II .

His America’s Cup record included:

• 1987 Skippered, managed and designed Kookaburra.
• 1991 – Skippered, managed and designed Spirit.
• 1995 Head of the design team for One Australia.

He was also Etchell World Champion in 1984 & 2019.

Iain represented Australia at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the Star.

He has been Regatta Director for the America’s Cup in 2013 (San Francisco), 2016 (Bermuda), 2021 (Auckland) and has been appointed for the 2023 edition in Barcelona.

Iain became Regatta Director for Sail GP in 2019 and was High Performance Manager for the Australian Sailing Team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Iain Murray AM was inducted into the CYCA Hall of Fame in 2023.

Sir James has been a Member of the CYCA since 1971, celebrating his 50th anniversary last year.

As one of the first committee members of the CYCA Youth Sailing Academy, he played a key role in establishing the YSA, which has become an institution of our Club.

A successful sailor from an early age, he was Australian champion in the 12 square metre Sharpie class in 1959, Flying Dutchman class in 1964 and world 505 champion in 1966.

Sir James represented Australia in two Olympic Games, skippered three America’s Cup challenges and competed in four Admiral’s Cups.

His name is deeply etched in the history of the America’s Cup, having competed as crew, then skipper aboard Gretel in 1967, skipper of Gretel II in 1970, on Southern Cross in 1974, on Australia in 1980 and as relief skipper and advisor to John Bertrand for Australia II’s win in 1983.

As helmsman aboard Impetuous in the 1979 Admiral’s Cup, Sir James assisted the Australian team in winning the prestigious trophy for the CYCA.

He also enjoyed many Sydney Hobart Yacht Races over the years, from his first in 1955 with Norm Howard on Southern Myth to those as skipper of his own yachts – Nyamba , Police Car and the famous family yacht Nerida , on which he raced in the 50th Sydney Hobart in 1994.

In recognition of his contribution to sailing and the community, Sir James was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1975 and knighted for his services to yachting in 1981.

He was then inducted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame in ’94 and was awarded the Australian Sport Medal in 2000.

Inducted in 2022.

Gordon served as the CYCA’s Rear Commodore in 1965. He is currently the second longest serving Member of the Club, having joined in 1949.

A year later, he competed in his first Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, aboard the 29-foot Jasnar .

In 1962, Gordon purchased Caprice of Huon , and competed in four Sydney Hobarts, his best result being second-place overall in 1972.

Gordon and Caprice of Huon qualified for the 1965 Admiral’s Cup, where she recorded the exceptional result of three wins in four races, resulting in the team placing second.

Gordon qualified Caprice of Huon again for the 1967 Admiral’s Cup team. As he was campaigning with Sir Frank Packer’s team for the ’67 America’s Cup, he lent the boat to Gordon Reynolds, assisting that famous Admiral’s Cup win.

Gordon sailed on a wide range of yachts, from ocean racers to one-design Dragons and 5.5s. He won the 5.5m Australian Championship in 1961, 1962 and 1969, also winning the Scandinavian Gold Cup in 1969.

Following the 1967 America’s Cup campaign, Gordon went back to one-design sailing in the Tempest class, winning a national championship and selection to the Australian team for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

In 1976, Gordon purchased Gretel II from Alan Bond and challenged for the 1977 America’s Cup. He continued to race Gretel II on Sydney Harbour and in 12m World Championships, before returning to the Dragon Class, where he has had exceptional results. In 2018, at the age of 91, Gordon won his fourth Prince Philip Cup, a remarkable achievement.

For his many services to sailing, Gordon was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.

After competing in the inaugural Sydney Hobart Yacht Race aboard Horizon , Alan became one of the CYCA’s earliest Members in the late 1940s.

He was a cadet draughtsman during World War II while training as a naval architect, and established a naval architect practice following the war.

Alan enjoyed early success with his designs Nocturne , Solo and Cherana – three overall wins and three Line Honours wins between them in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

Alan was commissioned to design Gretel , Australia’s first challenger for the America’s Cup in 1962, as well as Gretel II for the 1970 America’s Cup.

In the 1980s, Alan was co-opted by the CYCA, along with Professor Peter Joubert and Gordon Marshall, to assess the construction of ocean racing yachts. They recommended the American Bureau of Shipping Rules be adopted in Australia and eventually, with Alan’s support, they were used as a worldwide reference for construction standards.

Aside from being a most talented designer, Alan was known as a thorough gentleman, never pursuing financial success, nor trading on his reputation. He was unflappable, meticulous, warm, sincere, patient, understanding and always good for a laugh.

Alan was a Member of the CYCA until he passed away in 1995.

Vic Meyer joined the CYCA in 1950, when he owned the motor sailor, Lauriana .

He assisted the Club in purchasing its first property, the Rushcutter Yacht Service, for 10,000 pounds, with a loan guaranteed by Vic, Merv Davey and Colonel Albert Saafeld.

In 1952, Vic offered Lauriana for use as the Radio Relay Vessel in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. On the cruise back from Hobart, the engine was shut down and Vic experienced the joy of sailing. From then, he was hooked.

In 1954, Vic approached a young naval architect, Alan Payne, to design him a cruising yacht. A 57-foot steel-hulled sloop was built by Vic and his son. They named her Solo – a born winner.

Vic was a hard driving skipper and never expected his crew to do anything that he would not do himself. Vic and Solo enjoyed incredible success in the 1950s and 1960s.

In eight Sydney Hobart Yacht Races between 1955 and 1962, Solo won two Tattersall Cups, two John H Illingworth Challenge Cups and was second on line four times.

She won many other major ocean races, including six Line Honours wins and four overall wins in the Montague Island Race, as well as five Line Honours wins and two overall wins in the Brisbane Gladstone Race.

Vic circumnavigated Australia in 1962 and retired Solo from racing the following year, spending the next decade cruising around the world, often with an all-female crew.

Vic retired to Maroochydore, where he passed in 1991.

Kay Cottee could be termed a CYCA baby; the daughter of prominent members of the time Jim and Joy McLaren, she was taken sailing for the first time when only a few weeks old.

Kay along with her four sisters spent her youth around the CYCA where her love of sailing developed and where she met and married the son of another prominent CYCA family. She was a member of the club in 1970’s re-joining in 1993.

In 1988, Kay became the first woman to sail single handed non-stop and unassisted around the world, aboard the 37ft yacht Blackmores First Lady. On her return through Sydney Heads on 5 th June 1988, she was greeted by tens of thousands of well-wishers.

Following the famous voyage Kay undertook an 18-month national schools tour, speaking to over 40,000 high school students and raised in excess of $1million for the Rev. Ted Noffs’ Life Education Program.

Kay was the Australian of the Year in 1988; awarded an Order of Australia in 1989 and was Chair of the Australian National Maritime Museum from 1995 to 2000. In 2017 she was an inaugural inductee of the Australian Sailing Hall of Fame.

Inducted in 2019.

Stan Darling was born in Hobart in August 1907. He worked for the ABC as a radio announcer and in 1936 was transferred to Sydney before enlisting for service in World War II in the Royal Australian Navy. Stan returned from the war as one of the most decorated Australian naval officers being awarded three Distinguished Service Crosses.

In 1947, Stan joined Trygve and Magnus Halvorsen as navigator aboard Peer Gynt thus embarking on a yachting career with equal distinction, making up the third member of the most consistently winning ocean-racing team ever put together.

Stan competed in 27 Sydney Hobart Yacht Races, taking Line Honours twice (1953 Solveig and 1976 Ballyhoo) and was overall winner five times (1954 Solveig, 1957 Anitra, 1963 and 1964 Freya and 1970 Pacha).

Due to illness, the Halvorsen Brothers did not sail in 1954, leaving Stan to skipper Solveig to an overall win. In 1967, Stan was navigator in the winning Admiral’s Cup team aboard Balandra.

Inducted in 2018.

Mervyn Davey could be termed Mr. CYCA.

Merv joined the CYCA in 1945, the 25 th member. He served on the Board of Directors for a number of years before becoming Rear Commodore 1947 and 1948 and Commodore from 1949 to 1951 and again in 1957 to 1958.

Merv was elected to Life Membership of the club in 1961 and in 1962, was appointed Secretary and continued in that capacity until 1971 when he became the full time Sailing Secretary.

Along with the Board, Merv was responsible for the acquisition in 1951 of the small boatshed at Rushcutters Bay as the first CYCA clubhouse and was one of the guarantors for the loan; the first marina in 1952 and the building of the addition to the clubhouse in 1958, the marina extensions in 1960 and the completion of the new clubhouse building in 1965 and the acquisition of the adjoining boat yard and marinas in 1968.

Merv designed and supervised the construction of his 44 foot yacht “Trade Winds” which was the first modern ocean racing yacht constructed of steel in Australia. He skippered her to wins in the 1948 Montagu Island race and the 1949 Sydney to Hobart race.

As a highly qualified engineer, Merv was also well known for his measuring skills and was a leading exponent of the RORC rule and the development of the IOR rule in the 1970’s. A very principled man, he was Chief Measurer for the Australian Yachting Federation and represented the country on the world rating Councils.

He was described by the highly respected yacht designer Olin Stephens as “a brilliant young man who was a credit to the CYCA and Australian yachting”.

One of the founding fathers of the CYCA and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Jack Earl OA, the noted marine artist owned a Colin Archer designed 43’ gaff rigged ketch named after his beautiful wife “Kathleen Gillett”. Jack and Kathleen lived aboard and cruised with their son Mick and daughter Maris. He and Peter Luke were friends who cruised together and had the idea of forming a cruising club, which they did on 6 th September 1944.

Jack competed in the first CYCA race in October 1944 from Sydney to The Basin in Pittwater.

It was Jack’s intention to cruise to Hobart in December 1945 along with Peter Luke and the Walker brothers which was the foundation of the Sydney to Hobart race.

In 1947 Jack departed Sydney for a circumnavigation of the world only the second Australian yacht to do so, arriving home in November 1948. He completed another circumnavigation in the 1960’s aboard his Tasman Seabird yawl “Maris”.

Jack was a great supporter of the CYCA over his long membership until his death in 1994.

Syd Fischer has been a Member since 1962, and has competed in 47 Sydney Hobart yacht races, owning 14 different yachts along the way. His first Hobart in the Lion Class Malohi in 1962 was followed in 1968 by the most famous of his yachts, the 48’ Sparkman and Stephens-designed Ragamuffin, in which he went on to race to Hobart in six races, rarely out of a podium finish either overall or in division. Syd won the race overall in 1992 and took Line Honours twice in 1988 and 1990.

Syd was a committed competitor and was part of the Australian Team in the Admiral’s Cup in six events, Captaining the Team on five occasions and winning the Fastnet race in 1971 and leading the winning team in 1979. In addition, Syd challenged for the America’s Cup five times involving many CYCA Members, particularly junior sailors in many of his challenges.

Trygve Halvorsen & Magnus Halvorsen

Trygve and Magnus Halvorsen are among the most successful ocean racers ever to have sailed out of Sydney. Their record performance in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is unlikely ever to be broken and overshadow their unquestioned distinction in boat building, yacht design (Trygve’s great talent) and ocean yacht navigation (Magnus’s self-taught specialty).

Trygve joined the CYCA in 1946 serving on the Board of Directors and Rear Commodore 1953-54. Magnus joined in 1947 and had an active role in the Safety Committee

The brothers designed and built all their boats meeting great success in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race with five overall wins (1954 Solveig, 1957 Anitra, 1963,64 and 65 Freya), in addition to five second-place finishes.

Magnus went on to win the race again in 1974 as navigator on Love & War, as well as Line Honours twice, 1971 Kialoa II and 1975 Kialoa III. The race record, set by Kialoa III in 1975, stood for 21 years.

Captain John Illingworth was one of the greatest exponents of sailing and ocean racing. Following World War II, he was the Chief Engineer Officer at the Royal Navy Repair Base at Garden Island. His reputation as an accomplished ocean racer in the UK had preceded him, notably his knowledge of all aspects of yacht design, rigging and racing and his willingness to share his knowledge with others earned him the deep admiration of would-be ocean racers in Australia.

Following a meeting of the newly formed CYCA in May 1945, Illingworth was invited to join Peter Luke, Jack Earl and Bert Walker in a cruise to Hobart over Christmas that year. Illingworth suggested  “Why don’t we make a race of it” and the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was established.

Through Illingworth’s connection with the RORC, their rating rule was utilised to measure the fleet. Illingworth went on to take Line Honours in the first race and win the event on handicap.

John Illingworth is considered the Father of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and was elected a Life Member of the CYCA in 1957 and remained a friend of the CYCA for the rest of his life.

A member since 1987, Grant came to prominence in 1983 when he navigated AUSTRALIA II to win the America’s Cup, an obsession which has seen him involved with 6 America’s Cup campaigns, winning 4 times.

In addition, Grant is a distinguished ocean racer having competed in 21 Sydney to Hobart races, winning aboard Yendys in 2000 and a Line Honours victory aboard Drumbeat . He also competed in the Australian Admirals Cup Team in 1981, 1985 and 1983 and other major regattas throughout the world.

After the 1983 success Grant stayed with Alan Bond’s syndicate and was navigator on AUSTRALIA IV during the 1987 Defender selection series.

He was co-owner of North Sails Australia for 17 years until 2000 when he joined ALINGHI as managing director and head of design. Grant helped design the winning 2003 and 2007 America’s Cup boats as well as ALINGHI 5 for the 2010 America’s Cup defence.

In 2010 Grant joined Team Origin as CEO but they withdrew and in 2012 he became general manager of Oracle Racing, overseeing the day to day operations at the 2013 and 2017 America’s Cup.

Grant was inducted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Australian Sailing Hall of Fame in 2017.

He joined Ben Ainslie Racing in late 2017 to prepare for the current America’s Cup.

A Member since 1971, Hugh Treharne is one of the most exceptional sailors in Australia, having won the America’s Cup in 1983, Admiral’s Cup in 1979, Sydney Hobart race twice (1992 and 1993), the Fastnet Race in 1971, the World One Ton Cup in 1971 and Half Ton Cup in 1975 and the World 18-foot Skiff Championship in 1970 as well as numerous national titles in yachts and skiffs.

Hugh has sailed in 30 Sydney Hobart races commencing with Norm Brooker aboard Seawind in the mid 1960s. He sailed aboard many top-quality yachts including Ragamuffin winning the race overall in 1992 and winning overall again in 1993 aboard Cuckoo’s Nest.

Hugh sailed in six Admiral’s Cup campaigns, including winning the Fastnet Race aboard Ragamuffin in 1971 and winning the Cup for Australia in 1979 as helmsman aboard Impetuous.

Michael York is the longest-serving member of the CYCA, having joined in 1945. Mick and his wife Jeannette have been a part of the CYCA virtually since inception and have contributed much to the fabric of the club. The annual drinks party at the York’s waterfront home for visiting international yachts out for the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race are fondly remembered.

The consummate seaman Mick was in high demand aboard ocean-racing yachts in his day and was a crew member aboard Gretel in Australia’s first challenge for the America’s Cup in 1962 and aboard Caprice of Huon in the 1965 Admiral’s Cup team. With the arrival of the maxi yachts contesting Line Honours in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Mick was a regularly crewman aboard Kialoa and was aboard Kialoa III in 1975 when she set the race record which stood for 21 years.

In 1974 Mick skippered his Tasman Seabird yacht Tui Manu to an overall win in the Sydney Noumea Yacht Race. He and Jeanette spent many years cruising their yacht Rockhopper in the Pacific.

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Special Report: Sydney-Hobart Race

Veteran Sailor Is Back for His Annual Jaunt With Friends

By Christopher Clarey

• Dec. 25, 2011

Iain Murray has bigger concerns than his latest Rolex Sydney to Hobart race. He has his beloved America’s Cup to help save from irrelevance. As regatta director for the next Cup, in San Francisco in 2013, he has teams to recruit, budgets to trim and new and old publics to convince as the competition shifts from graceful, traditional mono hulls to high-performance, adrenaline-guaranteed catamarans with wing sails and a certain propensity to flip.

“The thing with the America’s Cup is that this isn’t a 10-year business plan,” Murray said. “We have to make all this work and happen by 2013 if not earlier.”

But Murray, a 53-year-old father of three daughters who is one of the most respected figures in Australian yachting, is still making the time for his now-annual pilgrimage to Hobart among friends. He has long been a key member of the crew on Wild Oats XI, the 100-foot supermaxi that has been the most successful big boat in the Sydney-to-Hobart’s history, taking line honors in five of the last six races.

“A 100-footer is quite a beast and the loads and the dangers are quite substantial, so it needs to be treated very carefully,” Murray said. “You’ve got to watch yourself, but of course the Oatleys prepare the boat immaculately and spare no expense on safety. So it’s a good boat to go on.”

Bob Oatley, Wild Oats’ 84-year-old owner and one of Australia’s wealthiest individuals, no longer races on board, but Murray has deep personal and professional connections to the Oatley family. He grew up competing against Oatley’s children in youth sailing races at the Middle Harbour Yacht Club.

“Of course, we’re all old people now,” Murray said. “But Bob was no different to any of the other parents back then. We had little dinghies on top of the roof of cars and rigged them up on the grass there together and off we’d go.”

Murray, an understated overachiever with a wide-ranging skill set that includes yacht design, would go quite a bit further than most: He won a record six consecutive 18-foot skiff world titles, from 1977 to 1982, and at only 25 earned an invitation from his fellow Australian Syd Fischer to be the helmsman on his challenger for the 1983 America’s Cup.

But only one Australian yacht would make history that year in Newport, Rhode Island: Australia II, bankrolled by Alan Bond and skippered by John Bertrand, ended the New York Yacht Club’s 132-year hold on sailing’s most prestigious competition.

Murray would still get his chance at winning the Cup for Australia, however. When the Cup was contested off Fremantle in 1987, Murray was the skipper and principal designer of Kookaburra III, which ended up winning the defender series. But in the Cup match itself, Murray and the Australians were swept in four straight races by Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes as Conner returned the trophy to the United States.

Although Murray persevered, participating again in 1992 and 1995 in San Diego, he did not come close to winning the Cup again and shifted his focus to private business and property development.

But the opportunity to play what he insists is an independent executive role in the Cup has brought him back on board this time, and, in preparation for 2013, he has been directing the lead-up events known as the America’s Cup World Series. While Murray’s work has elicited widely favorable reviews, the Cup’s commercial leaders have struggled to find significant sponsorship beyond Louis Vuitton, which has renewed its long-running commitment to the Cup. For now, the considerable financial load is being borne by Larry Ellison, the American billionaire whose team won the Cup in 2010.

“Clearly right now this wouldn’t be happening without Larry’s underwriting,” Murray said. “So look, we are working furiously to make ourselves less dependent on Larry’s underwriting and get things, particularly things like the America’s Cup World Series, standing on its own two feet as quickly as we can.”

The World Series will resume in April in Venice with the 45-foot catamarans that will eventually be replaced by the 72-foot versions that will be used in the Cup itself. Having watched how physical and draining the racing has been so far in the smaller boats, Murray is increasingly concerned that the 11 crew slots each team has been allotted will not be enough to handle the challenge of the larger yachts with their much bigger sail plans.

“Look at Wild Oats, where you have eight powered winches, a 250-horsepower engine and 20 crew,” Murray said. “We’re going to be handling similar sized sails to what the 72s are going to do, and yet they’re supposed to be doing that with 11 people and no power. I have an appreciation of how big and heavy these sails and the power they generate are to handle. Trying to do it manually over a short course in San Francisco is one hell of a mission.”

He said one or two extra crew members might solve the problem. “My point of view is that it’s important we race these boats at the highest level of quality we can and it not just be survival to get around the course,” he added. “Having said that, the 72s are going to be spectacular boats. They are going to be the supremo racing machines on this planet.”

The Hobart race was only an intermittent diversion for Murray in the early stages of his sailing career, in part because of a bad first impression. He competed for the first time in 1977 on a British yacht called Knockout.

“We sort of got half rolled over and the boat was a mess, and I cracked a rib and I was sick,” Murray said. “I was finding out what ocean racing is about, and I was 19 years old and probably totally oblivious to the dangers, really.”

He was given another reminder in 1998 when the 46-foot yacht he was sailing on broke its rudder early in the race and had to withdraw. That allowed Murray and his crew to miss the worst of the storm that would leave six sailors dead. “We ended up on the south coast of New South Wales, which was probably quite fortunate,” he said.

Murray has only become a consistent presence in the Hobart race in the 2000s, and his wide-ranging role with Wild Oats is reflective of his career. He was instrumental in the design modifications that have been implemented over the last two years in an attempt to maintain Wild Oats’s supremacy. On board, he is in the rotation at the helm and helps determine tactics, among other duties.

“His fundamental intuition on how to win a boat race is very important to our overall tactics and his design background gives him a second nature on how to make the boat go faster,” Adrienne Cahalan, Wild Oats’s veteran navigator, wrote in an email message.

Intuition and a deep background do not always suffice, of course. This month, Murray and his crewmate Andrew Palfrey struggled at the ISAF sailing world championships in Perth in the Star class, the same class in which they represented Australia at the Olympics in 2008.

“We put in two days of practice prior to the event and got a two-days-of-practice type result,” Murray said. “It was a week off for me. I lived in Perth for three years, so I was catching up with a lot of friends.”

But the Hobart race, despite the friends on board, like Ian Burns and the skipper Mark Richards, will not be an ocean-going respite. It will be an intense, two-day push for another trophy on a volatile stretch of water that has earned Murray’s full attention and respect.

“You can get a horrible place out there in a very short period of time,” he said.

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South Australia's Adventures of a Lifetime: Cruise the Murray River

Cruise Australia’s longest river from the Australian Alps to the windswept South Australian coast.

The Murray River is Australia’s longest river at approximately 1,500 miles   (2,500 kilometers). Flowing from the Australian Alps to the windswept South Australian coast near Goolwa, its waters irrigate vast tracts of farmland. Only the last few hundred miles flow through South Australia, but this stretch has some of the country’s best scenery, through limestone gorges, past lagoons teeming with birdlife, and along riverbanks lined with majestic river red gums. Once a major route into the interior, hundreds of paddle steamers carrying wool, wheat, and supplies once plied the river. Now, old inland ports like Mannum and Murray Bridge harbor pleasure crafts. Houseboats provide an ideal way to unwind and explore the river, or take one of the many cruise boats, which can be rented just over an hour’s drive from Adelaide.

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Houseboats can be rented at Murray Bridge, Mannum, Blanchetown, Morgan, Waikerie, and Renmark, heading upstream in order. Only an unrestricted driver’s license is required to rent a boat, and you will be given a practice run, safety drill, and boating guide before you head off. Tie up to a tree on the bank at the end of the day and throw in a fishing line, bird-watch, swim, or just kick back. The river is popular with water skiers, kayakers, and other boats on weekends and holidays, but quiet backwaters can always be found. Some houseboats provide simple cabin-style comfort while others are more like upscale apartments on water, complete with spa baths and other luxuries. They range from one to six bedrooms, but bigger boats catering to families are more common. Minimum rental is usually three days. Most require you to bring your own food and drink, though some boats use local caterers who can stock up before you arrive.

P.S. Murray Princess is the biggest and most impressive craft on the river. This purpose-built old-style paddleboat has the scaled-down trappings of an ocean liner, with six state rooms and 54 cabins with private facilities. It leaves Mannum on three-, four-, and seven-day cruises and includes winery, farm, wildlife, aboriginal, and other tours. The similar but smaller Proud Mary runs two- and five-day tours out of Murray Bridge.

Day trips are also very popular. A few of the original paddle steamers still operate and run irregular trips, including P.S. Marion , dating back to 1897. When not steaming on the river, you can board it at the Mannum Dock Museum to inspect the galley, lounges, and cabins. P.S. Industry is the pride of Renmark and dates to 1911. Moored next to the information center, it operates on the first Sunday of every month and other selected days.

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Barranjoey pin program launched to recognise Australia's greatest sailors

Australian sailing great Iain Murray believes the establishment of the Barranjoey Pin alumni program brings sailing into line with other iconically Australian sports and lays a foundation from which subsequent generations can launch.  

Murray – a 2008 Olympian, America’s Cup stalwart and current Australian Sailing Performance Director – was speaking at the public launch of the Barranjoey Pin at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney on Tuesday.

The uniquely numbered pins will be presented around the country this year and next to those athletes who have represented and continue to represent Australia at the highest levels in sailing. It is named after the yacht ‘ Barranjoey ’, which was sailed to Australia’s first Olympic sailing gold medal, at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Murray – recipient of Pin No.159 – called on Australia’s top Olympic class sailors to utilise the knowledge offered by their predecessors, as they set about forging their own path.

“We’ve seen it very strongly in other sports, whether it be rugby or cricket, but it’s probably been missing in sailing a little bit,” Murray said. “There’s a change in the wind and I think it’s time for us to hoist a different sail. Celebrating this with the awarding of these Pins is a good way to start.

“By producing this pin and bringing all these people back to the fold, having their stories exposed, having the people that are around available to come and talk to the young guys and share their experiences, I think it’s part of the brotherhood of where we’re trying to get to.

“We’ve all had our fun, had our successes, had our journeys representing Australia in sailing. There comes a time, I think, where you have a duty to put back in to your sport and try to make it better for the next group of sailors.”

Australian Sailing President, Matt Allen, said the Barranjoey Pin was a natural extension from the establishment of the Australian Sailing Hall of Fame last year.

“This creates the start of a process to bring a lot of sailors back in to the sport, renew friendships, and also allow us to go on doing mentoring programs and other programs to bring people together,” Allen said. “We will utilise the expertise that a lot of people who’ve retired have … to help the sailors of today to the mutual benefit of the people involved.”

Allen presented Pin No.1 to Virginia Jamieson, the daughter of legendary sailor Jock Sturrock MBE, a four-time Olympian, bronze medallist, America’s Cup skipper and the 1962 Australian of the Year.

Barranjoey crew member James ‘Dick’ Sargeant became emotional as he received Pin No.28, recalling stories of their groundbreaking triumph more than half a century ago.

Allen then presented pins to the latest recipients, current Australian Sailing Team 49er crew David Gilmour (No.205) and Joel Turner (No.206), who are preparing for the World Championships in Denmark in August.

“It sets a really big platform that we have to work from,” Turner said. “There’s a lot of history in our sport. We know that Australians have been very successful. It sets us up with [the knowledge of] how hard we have to work. We’re definitely under no illusion that it’s an easy target to get an Olympic medal, but that’s what we’re here for.”

Details about Pin qualification criteria, see www.australiansailing.org

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Relax and take in river views from this luxurious vessel.

Explore the stunning Murray River in the largest paddlesteamer in the Southern Hemisphere. Stretching 35 metres long, this 40-guest vessel from Murray River Paddlesteamers will combine heritage charm with contemporary luxury. This state-of-the-art paddlesteamer, known for now as the PS Australian Star, will be the only wood-fired, five star accommodated paddlesteamer in the world.

Expect back-to-back cruises lasting three and four nights, operating all year round. If you’d like a more immersive experience, you can combine two cruises to create a week-long journey. This paddlesteamer is expected to open in late 2024.

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This three-deck vessel will be a unique way to explore Victoria’s river communities. Expect 20 luxury cabins with a range of styles, from King & Queen suites to Queen & Twin bed cabins. All accommodation will open out onto a verandah, so you can take in gorgeous river views. Inside your cabin, you’ll find luxury linen, ensuite, seating area and writing desk.

On board, there will be an outdoor relaxation space and a Discovery Lounge, serving up panoramic views. Enjoy a fresh menu every day at the fine dining restaurant, which will showcase a range of fresh and delicious local produce. There will also be a function space and bars.

Your river journey will be paired with shore excursions, such as silo art tours, so that you can learn more about the region.

For now, this river cruise is going by the name PS Australian Star. However, Murray River Paddlesteamers are planning to launch a nationwide competition soon to select a more permanent name.

According to Craig Burgess, Director of Murray River Paddlesteamers, demand for overnight cruises on the Murray is at record levels. “Australians love cruising, and they love the Murray River but they want comfort and facilities akin to those on European rivers,” said Burgess. “PS Australian Star will help tap that demand, boost the local economy, create new jobs and cater for the most discerning of visitors, attracting new domestic and international visitors to our region for the first time.”

The vessel will be built in Mildura, and will operate out of Echuca. Cruise dates and itineraries are expected to be released in mid-2023.

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The Seven Network’s summer sport offering is getting hotter with the 77th running of the iconic Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day.

Complete with 120 boats, including four 100-foot Maxis, the race will host an international fleet as they sail from Sydney to Hobart for the first time since 2019.

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Hosted by acclaimed sports broadcaster Mark Beretta, Seven’s commentary team will be bolstered by Peter Shipway, a veteran who boasts more than 30 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races; Jimmy Spithill, an America’s Cup and Sydney Hobart Line Honours winning skipper; and Seven’s own Emma Freedman, who will broadcast live from Super Maxi, Andoo Comanche.

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Australian sailing great Iain Murray has predicted a classic Sydney to Hobart tussle between the two big dogs of the sailing kennel: comparing one to a great dane, the other a greyhound.

A former regatta director of the America’s Cup, Murray is preparing for his maiden voyage aboard Andoo Comanche, one of four 30-metre supermaxi yachts charting a course to Hobart from Sydney Harbour from Boxing Day.

Comanche has blitzed the pre-Hobart events - most recently taking line honours at December’s Big Boat Challenge on Sydney Harbour - and Tuesday’s long-range weather forecast only underlines her chances.

The other boat best suited to the predicted northerly and northeasterly winds is nine-time line honours champion Hamilton Island Wild Oats - formerly Wild Oats XI - upon which Murray has sailed in 15 previous editions of the race.

“They’re completely different boats,” Murray, who is Comanche’s sailing master for the 2022 race, told AAP.

“We’ve sort of got a greyhound and a great dane.

“One of them (Comanche) is an immensely powerful, big, wide boat and the other (Wild Oats) is a sleek, skinny little sprinter that just doesn’t have the same power.

“But it doesn’t have the drag, either.

“(Comanche) is probably a harder boat to sail. It’s got to be respected because the loads are just enormous.

“The potential to damage equipment, damage people - you’ve got to be very careful and tempered.”

Wild Oats navigator Stan Honey, who sailed with Comanche on her maiden Sydney to Hobart in 2014, agreed the predicted conditions would favour the supermaxis.

By the time the wind is predicted to shift on December 28, Wild Oats, Comanche, LawConnect and Black Jack are likely to have already made their way up the Derwent River to dock at Kings Pier.

“At this point, it does look like it could be a big boat race. It looks like the big boats will be able to do most of the race in that northeasterly,” Honey said.

But despite the favourable conditions, Murray is not expecting any records to tumble this time around.

Andoo Comanche’s latest estimates have her on track to complete the race in roughly 36 hours - shy of the line honours record of 33 hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds she set in 2017.

“We did some routing runs this morning and they had us finishing at two o’clock in the morning. I know Black Jack’s was similar,” Murray said.

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