NYYC Members Bill and Will Hubbard in Rolex Sydney Hobart Race<\/p>\n
The Hubbards’ Dawn Star at the start of the 2010 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.
\nPhoto Rolex\/Daniel Forster.<\/p>\n
Hobart, Australia — Jan 1, 2011 — It was a bright and windy morning today when boat owners, crews, friends and family gathered on the lawn of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania in warm sunshine for the official prize-giving of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2010. The race\u2019s rich 66-year history provides for an impressive collection of race booty: intricately crafted silver trophies, hand-carved half models and unique awards.<\/p>\n
Just finishing the race makes you a winner resonated with the father and son team aboard the US entry, Dawn Star. Keen sailors and competitors Bill and Will Hubbard \u2013 NYYC members — shared a life-long dream of sailing in a Rolex Sydney Hobart, what has become known as the world\u2019s toughest ocean going race. The 76-year old Hubbard said of the race, \u201cI can honestly say it was the worst race and the best race I\u2019ve ever done\u2014and that\u2019s the honest to God\u2019s truth. The second day was hell on earth. I\u2019ve never been so unhappy and thought that I made a major error in judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bill Hubbard, 26, said the race was, \u201cWet! It was a test of endurance, but we got here.\u201d At one point during the race south, Dawn Star was hit by a freak wave and knocked down, sending two crew members overboard. \u201cTheir safety gear kept them from being lost,\u201d admitted the younger Hubbard.<\/p>\n
And with a twinkle in his eye, the sunburned and unshaven elder Hubbard looked back on the adventure that was the 2010 Rolex Sydney Hobart and said, \u201cThe fourth day was the most fantastic day on the water we\u2019ve ever spent. The wind was perfect. The weather was perfect and in that night every star in the sky was out. It was beautiful.\u201d <\/p>\n
Before leaving Sydney, Bill Hubbard\u2019s son, Will, sailed their Baltic 46 Dawn Star from San Diego last February to be in Sydney for the race. This was the first Rolex Sydney Hobart for the pair.<\/p>\n
The American sailing duo has always wanted to compete in the Rolex Sydney Hobart. Bill said, \u201cThere are a couple of reasons. My grandfather was Australian, and we have a number of relatives here. Over the last 10 years we\u2019ve competed in a number of world-class races, including the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge and the Newport Bermuda Race, and have done well. The Rolex Sydney Hobart was a natural, and we thought we must add this race. It\u2019s one of the premier, if not the premier, rough ocean passage races of the circuit. We thought, what the heck, let\u2019s do it.\u201d <\/p>\n
The father and son team won the St. David\u2019s Lighthouse Trophy in the 2006 Bermuda Race in their previous Lively Lady II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NYYC Members Bill and Will Hubbard in Rolex Sydney Hobart Race The Hubbards’ Dawn Star at the start of the 2010 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. Photo Rolex\/Daniel Forster. Hobart, Australia — Jan 1, 2011 — It was a bright and windy morning today when boat owners, crews, friends and family gathered on the lawn of … Continue reading Hubbard,Bill&Will<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[579,580],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing","tag-bill-hubbard","tag-sydneyhobart-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}