2005–Champions · Offshore records
Wild Oats XI
Wild Oats XI is a canting-keel IRC supermaxi, launched in December 2005, which won her first Sydney to Hobart the same month.
Builder’s plate
- Class
- Canting-keel IRC supermaxi
- Length
- 30.48 m
- Beam
- 5.1 m
- Draft
- 5.91 m
- Displacement
- 32 t, of which 14 t ballast
- Design
- Reichel/Pugh
- Builder
- McConaghy, Sydney
- Launched
- 2 December 2005
What she won
- 2005Sydney to HobartLine honours, corrected time and the race record: the first boat since 1945 to do all three1 d 18 h 40 m
- 2006Sydney to HobartLine honours2 d 8 h 52 m
- 2007Sydney to HobartLine honours, a third in a row, equalling Morna's 59-year-old record
- 2008Sydney to HobartA fourth consecutive line honours, a record of its own
- 2010Sydney to HobartLine honours for the fifth time
- 2012Sydney to HobartLine honours, corrected time and a new race record1 d 18 h 23 m
- 2005–2018Sydney to Hobart, in allNine line honours between 2005 and 20189
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