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Event Briefing


Fast across the Tasman... twice


Two dramatic and tantalising new ocean (and we mean ‘ocean’) race courses are being shoe-horned into a busy America’s Cup summer


With the 36th America’s Cup as the centrepiece, the summer of 2021 in New Zealand is set to be a sailing jamboree including two ocean races across the Tasman Sea: the first from Sydney to Auckland starting in January and the second from Auckland to Southport in June. The Tasman Sea has an unruly reputation but interest is building in the contests, which will challenge contestants and provide irresistible opportunities to stoke the always intense sporting rivalries between Australia and New Zealand. Both are timed to form part of the celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) and enable competitors to engage in additional fixtures in both countries, creating an attractive Australasian campaign circuit.


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Sydney to Auckland Race 2021


In June last year, the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) announced a partnership with the RNZYS for a 1,250-mile race to Auckland starting in Sydney on 30 January. The Moonen Yachts Sydney-Auckland Ocean Race is classified as a Category 1 event and is open to offshore cruising and racing yachts, superyachts, ocean racing multihulls, as well as incorporating a rally for cruisers. Moonen Yachts is a Netherlands- based builder of luxury superyachts that was recently acquired by Australian owners Matthew and Louise Baxter. Welcoming its support, RPAYC’s Robert McClelland, chairman of the race organising committee, says: ‘We are delighted to be entering this partnership with Moonen Yachts. Their commitment to producing global voyaging vessels of the highest standard adds to the prestige of this


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organisers of the brand new Moonen Yachts Sydney- Auckland Ocean Race are hoping that the race will feature a spectacular duel of


super-maxis at the head of the fleet


Auckland


great ocean challenge.’


Moonen Yachts’ new investors, Matthew and Louise Baxter, live in Sydney and are no strangers to the world of yachting. ‘I started sailing when I was eight,’ says Baxter, who heads AM Group, a global group of manufacturing companies he founded in 1972 – the same year the couple bought Barbarian, a Sparkman & Stephens-designed Finninsh Nautor’s Swan 60, which they still own.


‘We sailed all over the Pacific in that boat. I circumnavigated New Zealand and I’ve sailed to Nouméa with Louise five times,’ Matthew Baxter says. ‘We’ve certainly been to lots of places, as we love to explore the unknown.’ The Baxters first connected to the brand when they spotted a Moonen yacht in Pittwater harbour, north of


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