{"id":20808,"date":"2020-11-05T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/despite-covid-fears-yachts-depart-for-historic-sydney-to-hobart-race\/20808\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:05:02","slug":"despite-covid-fears-yachts-depart-for-historic-sydney-to-hobart-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/despite-covid-fears-yachts-depart-for-historic-sydney-to-hobart-race\/20808\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite COVID Fears Yachts Depart For Historic Sydney to Hobart Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Cruising<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> Yacht <\/span>Club of Australia (CYCA) confirmed the Boxing Day start of the race with a 100-strong fleet following \u201ca lengthy period of consultation with state governments, health authorities, and other key stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/328NapV\">RELATED BOOK: The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing\u2019s Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice\u00a0by Julian Guthrie\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have so many<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> yacht<\/span>s participating this year, particularly given the general uncertainty and necessary restrictions placed on many sporting events in Australia over the past six months,\u201d CYCA Commodore Noel Cornish said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe size of the fleet has exceeded all our expectations and is a tremendous show of support for the race. We are excited that we can host the Sydney Hobart<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> Yacht <\/span>Race in this challenging year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Previous winners Ichi Ban, Alive, and Quest are among the confirmed starters but several international competitors have been forced out by the ongoing global restrictions following the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Teams will be briefed online, social events around the race will not take place, and the organizers will prefer fans to watch digital livestream than throng the marina to follow Australia\u2019s most prestigious<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> yacht <\/span>race.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/328NapV\">RELATED BOOK: The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing\u2019s Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice\u00a0by Julian Guthrie\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) confirmed the Boxing Day start of the race with a 100-strong fleet following \u201ca lengthy period of consultation with state governments, health authorities, and other key stakeholders.\u201d RELATED BOOK: The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing\u2019s Greatest Race, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[7268,3888,1428,2482,13043,7369,6653,8314],"class_list":["post-20808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-covid","tag-depart","tag-fears","tag-historic","tag-hobart","tag-race","tag-sydney","tag-yachts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/20809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}