The interest both nationally and internationally for Jackson and her Ocean Respect Racing crew was phenomenal, and was also helped by having the team’s ambassador and Australia’s former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on board Wild Oats X for the Boxing Day start of the race in Sydney, jumping from the boat as they raced past Bondi, making the team front page news and helping promote their message.
ocean than fish. That's why our team is ditching single-use plastic and encouraging our fellow sailors to do the same.’
Ahead of the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Ocean Respect Racing joined forces with Clean Up Australia, the not-for- profit Australian environmental organisation, to raise awareness about how rubbish finds its way into the ocean, and encourage positive behaviour change. At beautiful Whiting Beach in Sydney Harbour, the team removed 12 large bags of rubbish, filled with soft plastic wrappers from food, cigarette butts, plastic water bottles and many tiny plastic pieces that were unidentifiable. As part of its commitment to leave a lasting legacy in Australia, 11th Hour Racing awarded a $10,000 grant to Clean Up Australia to support the organisation’s mission and expand its waterway cleanups.
Top: Stacey Jackson’s team, Ocean Respect
Racing, was sixth across the finish line and second overall on handicap. Above: think global, act local. Before the start, the team removed 12 big bags of plastic waste from a
supposedly clean Sydney Harbour beach
As the team’s ambassador was being safely collected in a chase boat, the Ocean Respect Racing crew pushed south, just behind the five 100-footers leading the fleet to Hobart. The challenge for the fleet in this year’s race was the Bass Strait transition, and navigator Libby Greenhalgh nailed it, emerging through the fog and shaking off all but one competitor, the fellow Reichel/Pugh 66 Alive, which they match raced down the east coast of Tasmania to Hobart. Having blown out a panel in their A2 pushing the boat hard earlier in the race, Jackson and her crew were without that key sail to stay close to Alive, who pulled away from them up the Derwent river to win the race overall on handicap. It was a superb performance for the Ocean Respect Racing team to secure second place on IRC and sixth place over the line – all of this with only 12 days sailing on the boat before the race. The reception the team received when they docked in
Hobart was extraordinary, showing the power of Jackson’s vision around sustainability, ocean stewardship and female leadership, creating a catalyst for change in Australia and beyond. Though the 2018 Rolex Sydney- Hobart Race is over, the work inspired by 11th Hour Racing continues: it started immediately with the crews on both Wild Oats X and XI collecting ocean water samples from selected areas up the east coast of Tasmania, in the Bass Strait and off the NSW south coast on the delivery back to Sydney, for an analysis led by Griffith University to check levels of microplastics in the ocean, providing key data to assist in understanding the problem and help promote change for the health of our oceans.
11thhourracing.org/projects/ocean- respect-racing/
Complete crew list for Sydney Hobart Stacey Jackson Dee Caffari Katie Pettibone Katie Spithill
Faraday Rosenburg Sarah Crawford Carolijn Brouwer Jade Cole
Libby Greenhalgh Sophie Ciszek Bianca Cook Vanesa Dudley Keryn McMaster
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