Swan 43 Santana and Swan 65 Eve participated in the last edition of this iconic race.

Mr. Steve Capell, owner of Swan 65/35 “Eve” commented on their participation with these words: << “Eve” competed in her third Sydney-Hobart race this year, the 75th anniversary of the race.The winds weren’t really in our favour so results weren’t as good as previous years such as the 2017 race where we won two trophies.However, we had a wonderful sail in a variety of mostly light conditions.One lesson for me was our performance in very light airs in Storm Bay where we sailed the grand old lady like a dinghy, chasing every puff and doing maybe 20 kite gybes.We overtook at least 12 other boats and often achieved 4 or 5 knots of boat speed in only 4 knots of wind.The grand old lady can still get up and go! Our next adventure is a big loop of the south pacific starting with Sydney-Tahiti via New Zealand and Isle Gambier.We’ll do the Tahiti Pearl regatta and cruise around a bit then come back for another go at the 2020 Sydney-Hobart race!We are calling our adventure “SwanningAround”.>>