LawConnect owner/skipper, Christian Beck, during the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Media Launch. Credit: Andrea Francolini
LawConnect owner/skipper, Christian Beck, during the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Media Launch. Credit: Andrea Francolini

Footage and photos from the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Media Launch – held at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia on Wednesday 24 November – are now available to download.

SHOTLIST

  • 00:00  Matt Allen AM: Owner/skipper, Ichi Ban 
  • 04:22  Christian Beck: Owner/skipper, LawConnect 
  • 07:53  David Griffith AM: Owner/skipper, Whisper
  • 10:40  Jen Linkova: ​Owner/co-skipper, Flat White ​(Two-Handed Division)
  • 13:36  Jules Hall: Owner/co-skipper, Disko Trooper_Contender Sailcloth (Two-Handed Division)

ABOUT THE PANEL

  • Matt Allen AM: Matt is a three-time winner of the Tattersall Cup, winning Overall honours on his Botin 52 Ichi Ban in the 2017 and 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobarts, and as crew on ​Challenge ​in 1983. Only two boats have won the Tattersall Cup three times – Freya and Love & War.
  • ​Christian Beck: Christian’s new-look Juan-K 100 LawConnect was formerly known as InfoTrack and Perpetual LOYAL (which won Line Honours for Anthony Bell in 2016, setting a new race record). ​InfoTrack was first out of the Heads in 2019 and finished second on Line Honours, behind Comanche.
  • David Griffith AM: David is a Director of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. His JV62 Whisper was fifth Overall in 2019 and recently won the Line Honours/Overall double in the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore’s Flinders Islet Race.
  • Jen Linkova: Jen will race her Radford 12.2, Flat White, with co-skipper Jason Cummings in the Two-Handed Division. Flat White was previously named Red Jacket, which won IMS Division C in the 1999 Sydney Hobart.
  • Jules Hall: Jules will race his J/99 Disko Trooper_Contender Sailcloth with his good mate, Jan Scholten, in the Two-Handed Division. Disko Trooper is one of the form boats, having recently scooped wins in the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore’s Flinders Islet Race and Bird Island Race.