Just go out through the Sydney Harbour exit and turn right and head to Hobart 631 nautical miles away.

This is the 77th running of the Sydney to Hobart ocean yacht race. It always starts on Boxing Day and finishes a few days later for the big yachts. The race record is about 1day and 9 hours.
The smaller boats depending on the winds can take up to a week.
These leading boats are classified as “Maxi” yachts. And are just short of 30m (or 100ft) long at the waterline.
They cost many millions to buy and more millions to race.

[Wylie]

It was an impressive start and perfect conditions!

[John Falconer]

@pusspup
It was a beautiful day with a nice strong nor’easter. Great day.

[Sue Hecker]

Great shot!

[Peter Dulis]

big sales

[Mags]

Great big sails! Cool shot!

[Casablanca]

I learned to sail in this harbour......never forgot the first day of Spring when I had a lesson and EVERYONE was out in the harbour! I had a stressful 3 hours dodging skiffs, ferries, cruise ships, yachts, little dinghies......aye me, I remember it well! But I do love watching sailing racing. This is a lovely shot of the action on the Sydney-Hobart.

[Susan Wakely]

This looks like a great start.

[John Falconer]

@wakelys @casablanca @marlboromaam @pdulis @susanhecker @susanhecker

I have other shots showing how h cric and scary the spectator fleet is!! I was on dry land but my family were down amongst it. Very scary.

[Harry J Benson]

Nice action capture

[Linda Godwin]

Great action!!

[Steve Chappell]

Great capture, sounds like a fun event to go see

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Excellent capture.

[Vesna]

Interesting

[Agnes]

Beautiful shot

[Fisher Family]

A lovely shot of the start of this race!

Ian

[Diana]

What a wonderful capture of the action! We always used to watch it on tv, so much going on there.

[bruni]

Great capture of the rich men toys

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[Dione Giorgio]

Wow you are lucky to be able to see them outside the harbour. They are magnificent sailing boats.

[Bucktree]

Outstanding shot of those vessels.

[Corinne C]

Wow an impressive shot!

[Nigel Rogers]

Superb action shot.

[Desi]

Wow great shot. And thanks for all the info in the text below to make the shot even more interesting

[haskar]

Great action shot.

[Christine Sztukowski]

Awesome shot

[Ellen Bogenschutz]

How exciting, wonderful photo of this event!

[Skip Tribby - ​🖖]

Nicely composed and captured!

[Judith Johnson]

Great shot

[Carole Sandford]

Nice action shot!

[LManning (Laura)]

It looks like a collision waiting to happen! Nicely captured.

[Margaret Brown]

Super movement and capture

[Taffy]

Great action capture

[Joan Robillard]

Wonderful

[Valerie Chesney]

Super capture! just look at all of those small craft...

[Kathy A]

Great shot

[Kathy]

I read in the news that this race started yesterday. Nice that you have a birds eye view of the beginning of the race.

[Nina Ganci]

wow! Impressive capture
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[Christina]

Fabulous shot. I have a nephew on the Celestial. They are doing well and I've got my fingers crossed!

[Pam]

Wow!

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot of the sailing and boats.

[John Falconer]

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I missed all these comments. Sorry. But thanks for taking the time to make them!!!