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Neville Crichton, the Australasian businessman, Kiwi owner and skipper of Alfa Romeo, has notched up three wins at the Boat International Super Yacht this week in Sardinia (24-26 June 2008), taking both the overall classification and the title open only to the fastest super maxis in the world, the Performance Division. [ MORE ] | |
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| 16/06/2008 |
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Kiwi yachtsman and Australian businessman, Neville Crichton has reaped the rewards for his record breaking line honours win in the Rolex Giraglia Race, collecting the Rolex Trophy and the Rene Levainville Trophy, as well as the Beppe Croce Trophy for being the first to round the Giraglia Rock and for breaking the course record, 'Alfa Romeo' was awarded the Coppa del Record, while Neville Crichton also was given a Gold Rolex Submariner timepiece. [ MORE ] | |
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| 12/06/2008 |
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Three regattas into his fifth year of sponsorship by Italian car maker Alfa Romeo and Kiwi sailor and Australasian businessman, Neville Crichton is maintaining his winning ways with what is arguably the world's most successful super maxi, 'Alfa Romeo'. [ MORE ] | |
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| 12/06/2008 |
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Kiwi yachtsman and one of Australia's leading businessmen, Neville Crichton, has smashed the race record in the Rolex Giraglia Race, Europe's answer to the Rolex Sydney to Hobart, by an outstanding margin of four hours in the super maxi 'Alfa Romeo' at 08.03 European time on Thursday 12 June. [ MORE ] | |
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| 11/06/2008 |
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Line honours favourite Alfa Romeo led a fleet of 170 boats out of the Gulf of St Tropez this afternoon as the fleet set out on the 243-mile Giraglia Race. After winning two of the three inshore races of the Giraglia Rolex Cup, Alfa Romeo's skipper Neville Crichton has high hopes of notching up a handicap victory in the offshore race to Genoa.
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| 10/06/2008 |
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Alfa Romeo dominated the final heat of the inshore series in the Giraglia Rolex Cup today, but it wasn't good enough to win the series. In IRC Group A, a 5th place was good enough for Paolo Scerni's Swan 42 Kora 4 to secure overall victory comfortably from the 40-footer Fissa. [ MORE ] | |
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| 9/06/2008 |
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It was champagne sailing for day 2 of the Giraglia Rolex Cup, with beautiful sunshine and up to 13 knots of wind in the Gulf of St Tropez. [ MORE ] | |
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| 8/06/2008 |
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Day one of the Giraglia Rolex Cup was a day for keeping a cool head in a day of ever-changing breeze in St Tropez. [ MORE ] | |
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| 24/05/2008 |
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Rolex Capri Sailing Week ended today in a fading breeze, but with no reduction in the entertainment value or the intensity on the water. [ MORE ] | |
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| 23/05/2008 |
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Today was a good day. A good day to be sailing and an extremely good day to be sailing at Rolex Capri Sailing Week. [ MORE ] | |
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| 22/05/2008 |
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Rolex Capri Sailing Week returned to some sense of normality today with blue skies, warm breeze and sunshine. [ MORE ] | |
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| 21/05/2008 |
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Rolex Capri Sailing Week 2008 opened with a 33.4 mile coastal course that took all classes on a short beat to windward, followed by a fetch across the Golfo di Napoli from Capri to a mark off the equally glamorous island of Ischia and back again in a fresh south-south westerly, that at times was gusting upwards of twenty knots. [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/05/2008 |
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Santa Margherita, 30 April 2008 - Alfa Romeo, the most successful super maxi yacht in Europe in 2007, "defender" of a long series of victories, is set to continue her dominant record in 2008. [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/05/2008 |
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Whilst Rolex Capri Sailing Week has rapidly become a familiar feature on the early season Mediterranean sailing calendar, the weather ahead of the first day of racing tomorrow is distinctly unfamiliar. [ MORE ] | |
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| 4/05/2008 |
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Partnership between teams of Alfa Romeo, the fastest maxi yacht in the world, and Alinghi, the America's Cup defender, gets off to the best possible start, with Neville Crichton adding more silverware to his trophy cabinet. [ MORE ] | |
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| 14/10/2007 |
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Kiwi skipper Neville Crichton and his Australian-built super maxi, Alfa Romeo, have beaten 1831 other yachts to smash the race record in the Barcolana Yacht Race at the weekend (14 October 2007), the Italian event that attracts more yachts and spectators than any other European race. [ MORE ] | |
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| 9/09/2007 |
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Alfa Romeo has taken line honours for the third time in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Sardinia, but narrowly missed out on the handicap win by just 15 seconds with Morning Glory taking the corrected time title. [ MORE ] | |
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| 9/09/2007 |
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Alfa Romeo and Kiwi skipper Neville Crichton have taken a clean sweep of line honours wins in all five races in the prestigious Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and capped off a fine week's sailing by taking the final race in the series on handicap as well as another line honours win on Saturday (8 September 2007). [ MORE ] | |
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| 5/09/2007 |
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Alfa Romeo took line honours in the second race at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in a day of high drama with who Australian rival, Wild Oats, suffering a spectacular mast failure that rolled the yacht and flung all the crew into the sea. [ MORE ] | |
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| 4/09/2007 |
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Alfa Romeo, skippered by New Zealand's Neville Crichton, has taken line honours in the first race in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2007, which started yesterday (3 September 2007) in Porto Cervo, Sardina, beating Australian rival, Wild Oats. [ MORE ] | |
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| 14/08/2007 |
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Alfa Romeo has pulled out of the 2007 Rolex Fastnet Race, joining more than a third of the yachts contesting the event that have retired as storms and gale force winds hit the fleet. [ MORE ] | |
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| 9/08/2007 |
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Alfa Romeo has taken on ICAP Leopard, the newest challenger for Alfa Romeo's crown as the fastest super maxi in the world, and beaten her by more than 40 minutes to take line honours and the RYS Trophy in the opening race in the Skandia Cowes Race Week. [ MORE ] | |
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| 16/07/2007 |
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The organisers of the toughest yacht race in Europe, the Rolex Fastnet Race, have named 'Alfa Romeo' and Neville Crichton as the yacht and the skipper to beat in the 2007 event, which starts on 12 August off the Isle of Wight. [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/06/2007 |
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Kiwi super maxi Alfa Romeo defeated her Australian arch-nemesis, Wild Oats, in the final race of the Superyacht Cup, but it wasn't enough to enable Neville Crichton to beat Bob Oatley in the three race series, with Wild Oats taking the regatta 2-1. [ MORE ] | |
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| 14/06/2007 |
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She may not have broken the current record, but Kiwi Neville Crichton's 100-foot super maxi Alfa Romeo still had a stunning race win in Giraglia Rolex Cup yesterday (Thursday 14 June) in the waters off the Port of Genoa. [ MORE ] | |
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| 12/06/2007 |
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'Alfa Romeo' and her Kiwi skipper, Neville Crichton, have proved they remain the team to beat with a crushing 12 minute victory over Australian rival, 'Wild Oats', in the final inshore race of 2007 Girgalia Rolex Cup to win the series 2-1 for line honours. [ MORE ] | |
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| 10/06/2007 |
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The first day (10 June 2007) of the Giraglia Rolex Cup finished with a beautiful line honours victory for Neville Crichton's 'Alfa Romeo' over arch rival Wild Oats, which tried but could not compete with the Kiwi boat's supremacy on the course. [ MORE ] | |
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| 29/04/2007 |
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Super maxi yacht Alfa Romeo, owned and skippered by New Zealander Neville Crichton, has opened their 2007 account with five line honours wins at the Hublot Palmavela in Palma de Mallorca, confirming Alfa Romeo as, once again, the yacht to beat. [ MORE ] | |
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| 24/10/2006 |
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Alfa Romeo fulfilled her status as favourite for line honours in the Rolex Middle Sea Race when the sleek 100-foot SuperMaxi ghosted across the finish line in Malta at 14.42 hours yesterday (24 October 2006) having lead one of the toughest European yacht races almost from start to finish. [ MORE ] | |
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| 8/10/2006 |
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Kiwi Neville Crichton has beaten 1788 other yachts and more than 20,000 sailors to win Europe's largest single yacht race, the Barcolana, taking line honours for the third time at the helm of 'Alfa Romeo' and watched by more than 320,000 spectators. [ MORE ] | |
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| 10/09/2006 |
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The Kiwis have won yachting's world cup, with skipper and owner Neville Crichton proving that 'Alfa Romeo' is the fastest super maxi in world with a dominant performance in the week long Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup with Aussie rival, Wild Oats forced into third place behind German super maxi, Morning Glory. [ MORE ] | |
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| 6/09/2006 |
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Kiwi super maxi ‘Alfa Romeo’ and skipper Neville Crichton have consolidated their lead in yachting’s World Cup, with their second line honours and handicap win in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup’s third race. [ MORE ] | |
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| 5/09/2006 |
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Kiwi super maxi, ‘Alfa Romeo’ has extended her lead over her Aussie challenger Wild Oats after skipper Neville Crichton took his super maxi to a double win, collecting line honours and the handicap win on the second day of the super yacht World Cup, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. [ MORE ] | |
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| 4/09/2006 |
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The New Zealand super maxi ‘Alfa Romeo’ has taken the lead in Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, the world’s premier maxi yacht series which started this week (4 September 2006) in Sardinia, from Australian Super Maxi Wild Oats. [ MORE ] | |
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| 15/06/2006 |
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New Zealand super maxi Alfa Romeo has won line honours in the Europe’s leading yacht race, the Giraglia Race, by a massive margin, although light winds prevented Neville Crichton from getting anywhere close to breaking his own course record for the 243-mile race.
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| 14/06/2006 |
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After dominating the Line Honours in shore race results in 2006 Giraglia Rolex Cup, New Zealand Super Maxi and skipper/owner Sydney businessman Neville Crichton have lead the way out of St Tropez in the main event, the 243 mile off shore race.
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| 12/06/2006 |
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Neville Crichton, skipper and owner of New Zealand super maxi 'Alfa Romeo', didn't expect to win on handicap in Europe's most glamorous regatta, the Giraglia Rolex Cup, but weather conditions in race two played right into the hands of 'Alfa Romeo' and Crichton took both a line honours win by nearly an hour and the handicap win in a rare double.
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| 11/06/2006 |
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New Zealand Super Maxi, Alfa Romeo, is in a class of its own in the Giraglia Rolex Cup, taking line honours in the first inshore race by more than 40 minutes in ideal preparation for skipper Neville Crichton's attempt on the race record in the long distance race.
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| 23/04/2006 |
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Neville Crichton and Alfa Romeo have dominated the maxi class in their first European regatta of the season with the New Zealand super maxi taking four race wins our of five races to take the Maxi Class in the Hublot PalmaVela held in Spain at the weekend (21-23 April 2006). [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/04/2006 |
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New Zealand super-maxi, 'Alfa Romeo' has won its first race in Europe with skipper/owner Neville Crichton bring her home first in the opening round of the Hublot Palmavela regatta in Spain. [ MORE ] | |
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| 28/12/2005 |
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Wild Oats XI has set a new course record on the way to winning line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, maintaining her lead over Alfa Romeo despite a fight back from New Zealand team after a tactical error put them into second place. [ MORE ] | |
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| 26/12/2005 |
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A gale warning for eastern Bass Strait has reignited hopes for a race record in the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race with Wild Oats slipping ahead of Alfa Romeo. [ MORE ] | |
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| 25/12/2005 |
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As the 85 boats in the fleet enter the first evening of the race the character of this race is becoming evident: don’t muck about with fancy tactics - put your foot to the floor and get to Hobart the shortest way possible. [ MORE ] | |
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| 25/12/2005 |
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In perfect Sydney summer weather the 85 boats of the 2005 Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet staged an incident free start to the race, with Wild Oats leading Alfa Romeo through the heads, but Neville Crichton's super maxi took the lead just off Botany Bay and both yachts are now fighting for the lead. [ MORE ] | |
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| 22/12/2005 |
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Neville Crichton, owner and skipper of Rolex Sydney to Hobart favourite Alfa Romeo, has hit back at claims by a rival skipper that his yacht has yet to complete a one hour race and that this puts him out of contention for this year's blue water classic. [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/12/2005 |
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Neville Crichton, owner and skipper of 'Alfa Romeo' and the front runner for line honours in the 2005 Rolex Sydney to Hobart race, has secured a substantial sponsorship package to take 'Alfa Romeo' to Europe in 2006 to contest the leading blue water classic events through the coming northern summer. [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/12/2005 |
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Alfa Romeo Crew For The 2005 Rolex Sydney To Hobart [ MORE ] | |
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| 18/12/2005 |
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'Alfa Romeo' and her rivals may be the most advanced super maxis to ever
take part in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race when they set off on
Boxing Day, but skipper Neville Crichton believes that the deciding factor
in which boat takes line honours will not be technology, but traditional
sailing skills. [ MORE ] | |
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| 17/12/2005 |
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'Alfa Romeo' has won the Rolex Trophy with a race to spare with Neville Crichton's super maxi cruising to victory in the last build up event before Boxing Day's start of the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race. [ MORE ] | |
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| 17/12/2005 |
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Lightning storms, shifting and gusting winds, and the infamous Sydney swell all contributed to a topsy-turvy third day of the Rolex Trophy Ratings Series. [ MORE ] | |
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| 16/12/2005 |
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Bob Oatley's Wild Oats XI won her first race in this morning's (16 December 2005) race three in the Rolex Trophy series, but it was a hollow victory as Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo missed the start after a plastic bag jammed the water intake, overheating the engine which also powers the hydraulics that control the canting keel and the primary and mainsail winches.
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| 15/12/2005 |
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The duel between the world's newest and fastest 30m maxi yachts, Alfa Romeo and Wild Oats XI, began in earnest today with their first offshore encounter. Alfa Romeo took the honours, but her dominance may not continue. [ MORE ] | |
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| 13/12/2005 |
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The concept of such a close finish to the battle for line honours to Hobart was the view of rival owner/skippers Neville Crichton (Alfa Romeo) and Bob Oatley (Wild Oats XI) after this first encounter of the world's two fastest 30m maxi boats in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Big Boat Challenge on Sydney Harbour.
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| 29/11/2005 |
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Alfa Romeo and Channel Seven have joined forces to win the 2005 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race with Australia's leading broadcaster backing the super maxi that is tipped as the favourite to win the world's toughest blue water classic yacht race.
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| 27/11/2005 |
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Neville Crichton’s new super maxi Alfa Romeo scored a double double on the first day of Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s 28th annual Savills Short Ocean Racing Championship sailed offshore from Sydney on 26-27 November. [ MORE ] | |
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| 11/11/2005 |
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Big boats have dominated provisional corrected time results in the CYCA's Cabbage Tree Island Race with ten boats still to finish the 180 nautical mile race 36 hours after the Friday evening start. [ MORE ] | |
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| 28/08/2005 |
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Alfa Romeo began the prestigious Hamilton Island Hahn Premium Race Week
with a stunning record-breaking line and IRC handicap victory in a gentle
13-knot tropical sea breeze and the 30-metre super maxi finished the series
today (27 August 2005) with another brilliant double victory on a wet and
windy day, with a 26 knot wind, gusting to 30 knots, and short steep seas
in the Whitsunday Passage off the coast of Queensland. [ MORE ] | |
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| 26/08/2005 |
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A decision not to fly a spinnaker in fresh winds within the narrow confines of the Dent Passage, because of safety concerns for other yachts, proved costly for Neville Crichton's super maxi Alfa Romeo in today's 30 nautical mile Baynham Island Race. [ MORE ] | |
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| 24/08/2005 |
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For a super maxi yacht to take out a long race or a regatta pointscore double of line and handicap honours in IRC racing is still a somewhat rare achievement.
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| 21/08/2005 |
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The Edward Island Race, the second event in the Hamilton Island Hahn
Premium Race Week, has provided New Zealand super maxi 'Alfa Romeo' her
second line honours win when skipper Neville Crichton completely outsailed
the rest of the fleet in the IRC division yesterday (Sunday 21 August
2005). [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/08/2005 |
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The world's newest super maxi yacht, New Zealander Neville Crichton's Alfa
Romeo, today made a stunning race debut in equally stunning sailing
conditions - the opening race of the Hahn Premium Race Week at Hamilton
Island in the tropical Whitsunday Islands of Far North Queensland.
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| 15/08/2005 |
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New Zealand super maxi 'Alfa Romeo' has the potential to shatter race records around the world, predicts owner and skipper, Neville Crichton, having spent two weeks testing the new super maxi prior to the Hahn Premium Race Week at Hamilton Island (20-27 August 2005). [ MORE ] | |
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| 24/07/2005 |
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Following her launch on Tuesday 19 July 2005, Kiwi super maxi 'Alfa Romeo'
set her sails for the first time, tested her canting keel and bettered 19
knots in a light breeze during a highly successful maiden voyage around
Sydney Harbour on Friday 22 July 2005.
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| 2/11/2004 |
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International shipping schedules have ended the dream of 'Alfa Romeo' skipper Neville Crichton of making a line honours win in the 2004 Rolex Sydney to Hobart the 75th win that the remarkable Australian super maxi yacht has captured since its launch in 2002 [ MORE ] | |
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| 27/10/2004 |
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In a race that contained every sailing challenge and tested both crew and yacht to the extreme, Aussie super maxi, Alfa Romeo, has come through it all to end her second European season as she started, with total domination and a line honours win in both the supporting races and the long distance race in the Rolex Middle of the Sea Race. [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/10/2004 |
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Alfa Romeo, the 90 Australian-built and crewed super maxi yacht that has dominated maxi racing for two years since winning the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart, has taken its 72nd line honours win with victory in the first race the Rolex Middle of the Sea Regatta, the final major event in the northern summer season. [ MORE ] | |
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| 12/10/2004 |
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More than 10 million Italians tuned in their TVs at the weekend (10 October 2004) to watch Aussie super maxi Alfa Romeo beat 1,960 other yachts in the 36th annual Barcolana Cup, taking Line Honours for the second year in succession. [ MORE ] | |
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| 12/09/2004 |
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Neville Crichton, the owner and skipper of the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart winner, Alfa Romeo, has announced at the Rolex Maxi World Championships, which finished at the weekend (12 Sept 2004) in Sardinia, that he has started building the replacement for 'Alfa Romeo', which has taken 70 line honours wins including the Australian Blue water classic. [ MORE ] | |
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| 5/09/2004 |
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The Rolex Maxi World Championships, which starts this week in Sardinia, will see two Australian super maxi yachts battle for the title of the world's fastest maxi yacht with defending champion, Alfa Romeo, up against the new canting keel Wild Oats in a fight that has been called the old technology versus the next generation. [ MORE ] | |
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| 17/06/2004 |
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Australian yacht, Alfa Romeo, the winner of the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race, has taken line honours Europe's most prestigious yacht race, the Giraglia Rolex Cup, giving skipper and owner, Neville Crichton a clean sweep of line honours wins in the event following his victories in the three in-shore events prior to main event 243 mile off-shore race which finished in Genoa today (18 June 2004). [ MORE ] | |
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| 15/06/2004 |
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Alfa Romeo, the Aussie supper maxi yacht dubbed the world's fastest yacht and winner of the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race, has made it three out of three line honours wins in the Giraglia Rolex Cup, the major event in the 2004 northern Summer European Sailing season. [ MORE ] | |
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| 14/06/2004 |
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Aussie Super Maxi and winner of the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race, Alfa Romeo, took another step towards a clean sweep of the Mediterranean's leading yachting event, the Giraglia Rolex Cup with the line honours victory in the event's second inshore race. [ MORE ] | |
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| 13/06/2004 |
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Australian super maxi yacht Alfa Romeo has taken line honours in the first race of the Giraglia Rolex Cup in St Tropez, opening the way for a repeat of last year's line honours win in all the in-shore races and the off-shore long distance race in which Alfa Romeo also set a new race record. [ MORE ] | |
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| 16/05/2004 |
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Australian super maxi, Alfa Romeo, has opened her 2004 Account the way she finished her 2003 season with another round of line honors wins by crossing the finish line first in the prestigious Zegna Trophy three times in Italy at the weekend (14-16 May 2004). [ MORE ] | |
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| 27/04/2004 |
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Australia's leading sailors and their yacht, Alfa Romeo, the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart winner, will be campaigning under the Italian car maker's colours for a second European season after their total dominance of the 2003 European regatta season. [ MORE ] | |
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| 29/11/2003 |
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Neville Crichton, owner and skipper of the super maxi yacht 'Alfa Romeo' and one of New Zealand and Australia's leading businessmen, has been awarded the Sir Bernard Fergusson Trophy as the Yachting New Zealand Sailor of the Year in recognition of his remarkable run of wins in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. [ MORE ] | |
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| 28/10/2003 |
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Sydney to Hobart winner, Alfa Romeo has taken line honours in the Rolex Middle Sea Race and the Australian-built super maxi and her New Zealand skipper, Neville Crichton, have become the first ever to take European sailing's Grand Slam... [ MORE ] | |
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| 26/10/2003 |
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Sydney to Hobart winner 'Alfa Romeo' is in a race of her own in the last Blue Water Classic of the European season, well out in the lead after the first 24 hours of the 607-mile Rolex Middle Sea Race and a third of the way around the Italian Island of Sicily. [ MORE ] | |
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| 23/10/2003 |
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Sydney to Hobart winner, 'Alfa Romeo', has continued her winning ways by taking both line and handicap honours in the second race in the Rolex Middle Sea regatta in Malta... [ MORE ] | |
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| 22/10/2003 |
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Sydney to Hobart race winner 'Alfa Romeo' has started her final regatta of the European season in the manner she has raced all season - by taking line honours in the first race of the Rolex Middle Sea Race Week. [ MORE ] | |
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| 21/10/2003 |
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New Zealand skipper Neville Crichton and Australian-built 'Alfa Romeo' will bid this weekend (25 October 2003) to become the first skipper and yacht to have a clean sweep of wins in all the Blue Water Ocean Classics in one 12 month period. [ MORE ] | |
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| 13/10/2003 |
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Alfa Romeo, the Sydney-built super maxi that won the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart race, has added yet another race to her 2003 account by beating an enormous field of 1983 yachts to take line honours in the Barcolona 35 in Italy in front of a quarter of a million spectators at the weekend (12 October 2003). [ MORE ] | |
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| 13/10/2003 |
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New Zealand-born and Australia-based yachtsman, Neville Crichton, has been short-listed for the prestigious ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2003 for his outstanding performance in the super-maxi Alfa Romeo with victories in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. [ MORE ] | |
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| 14/09/2003 |
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There was no stopping Australian super maxi, Alfa Romeo, in the 2003 World Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup which finished on 13 September 2003. [ MORE ] | |
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| 8/08/2003 |
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Australian super maxi, Alfa Romeo, has taken the line honours in the 2003 Fastnet Race, which means that the Neville Crichton skippered maxi has added to its winning account of more than 60 races since she was launched 12 months ago... [ MORE ] | |
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| 22/07/2003 |
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Aussie super maxi and winner of the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart blue water classic, Alfa Romeo, will bid to win the Fastnet Race on 10 August 2003... [ MORE ] | |
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| 29/06/2003 |
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Alfa Romeo, the Australian built and crewed super maxi that won the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart, has smashed the race record by more than two hours in one of Europe's leading yacht races to win the Rolex Giraglia Cup. [ MORE ] | |
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| 25/06/2003 |
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Changes to the rules of the Rolex Sydney to Hobart race have rendered the 2002 winner, Alfa Romeo, ineligible from taking part in the 2003 blue water classic... [ MORE ] | |
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| 25/06/2003 |
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Alfa Romeo has for the second day running taken line honours in the St Tropez based Giraglia Rolex Cup... [ MORE ] | |
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| 24/06/2003 |
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The Australian built and crewed super yacht "Alfa Romeo" has taken line honours with a margin of 16 minutes in the first race in the prestigious Giraglia Rolex Cup, which is based in the Mediterranean super resort of St Tropez. [ MORE ] | |
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| 22/05/2003 |
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The Australian/New Zealand built and crewed super maxi yacht, Alfa Romeo, has made her European debut in the first major European regatta of the northern summer season and took the line honours win in four out of five races, despite weak winds and a short race circuit. [ MORE ] | |
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| 6/05/2003 |
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Neville Crichton is both renowned and respected for his exceptional performances in business and sport with a series of spectacular achievements in both arenas. [ MORE ] | |
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| 1/05/2003 |
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Alfa Romeo, the Line Honours winner of the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart
race, has secured full backing from leading European car maker, Alfa Romeo,
and support from Qantas, to enable her and a 24 strong Australian and New
Zealand crew to take on Europe's best yachtsman this northern summer in
some of the world's most prestigious sailing events.
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| 28/12/2002 |
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Alfa Romeo, Neville Crichton's super maxi has taken line honours in the 2002 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, surfing up the River Derwent under her massive spinnaker before a fresh sea breeze to cross the line off Hobart's historic Battery Point at 5.58.52 this afternoon (28 December 2002). [ MORE ] | |
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| 28/12/2002 |
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Had the 2002 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race started a day later, the 90-footer Alfa Romeo would have threatened Nokia's 1999 race record, owner/skipper Neville Crichton said in a dockside interview at Hobart's Constitution Dock. [ MORE ] | |
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| 27/12/2002 |
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Alfa Romeo, the Neville Crichton skippered super maxi that has dominated the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race, is picking up speed towards the finish of the blue water classic and sleek silver yacht could be in Hobart this afternoon (28 December 2002). [ MORE ] | |
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| 27/12/2002 |
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The Sydney-based super maxi Alfa Romeo has opened up a seven nautical mile lead over the British 97-footer, Canon, as they the lead the fleet in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race south towards Bass Strait. [ MORE ] | |
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| 27/12/2002 |
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Neville Crichton's super maxi Alfa Romeo holds a five-mile lead as the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race frontrunners enter Bass Strait. [ MORE ] | |
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| 27/12/2002 |
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Freshening north-easterly winds this afternoon (27 December 2002) have caused a major change in overall handicap positions in the IMS and IRC divisions of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race as the leaders power sail across Bass Strait. [ MORE ] | |
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| 27/12/2002 |
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Neville Crichton, the skipper of Rolex Sydney to Hobart race leader, Alfa Romeo, is preparing for a highly technical battle to the finish of the 2002 blue water classic with light winds and low speeds making his position relative to the other competitors and analysis of the weather critical to Alfa Romeo taking line honours. [ MORE ] | |
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| 27/12/2002 |
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Photographers covering the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race by helicopter have this afternoon reported a sighting of Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo and Sean Langman's Grundig 60 miles from Tasman Island and only a few miles apart. [ MORE ] | |
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| 26/12/2002 |
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Alfa Romeo may not have been the first off the line in the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race, but within minutes of the start the 90 foot Super maxi had overhauled her rivals to be the first yacht out of the Sydney Harbour Heads. [ MORE ] | |
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| 26/12/2002 |
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The quest for line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is wide open - judging by positions at the first position schedule ("sked") with the fleet at 8pm tonight. [ MORE ] | |
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| 25/12/2002 |
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Classic fleet for a classic ocean race [ MORE ] | |
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| 22/12/2002 |
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The World's fastest super maxi, Alfa Romeo, will start the blue water classic 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht race on 26 December as the unrivalled favourite to take the line honours prize... [ MORE ] | |
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| 21/12/2002 |
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Its not just the cricket - the British Super maxi yacht, Canon Leopard of London cannot get past the Australian and New Zealand skippered, owned and crewed Alfa Romeo... [ MORE ] | |
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| 21/12/2002 |
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The World's fastest super maxi, Alfa Romeo, will start the blue water classic 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht race on 26 December as the unrivalled favourite to take the line honours prize... [ MORE ] | |
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| 21/12/2002 |
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Alfa Romeo's domination of the eight race British Trophy series meant that the 90 foot super maxi simply had to turn up at the start of race seven today (21 December 2002) and cross the start line to secure the trophy... [ MORE ] | |
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| 18/12/2002 |
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Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race line honours favorite Alfa Romeo maintained her edge over British maxi Canon, winning both of the first two races of the British trophy Series off Sydney Heads today (18 December 2002). [ MORE ] | |
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| 13/12/2002 |
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The super maxi, Alfa Romeo, left no doubt about her hot favouritism for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race with a brilliant runaway win today in Sydney Harbour's annual spectacle of the maxi yachts, the Canon Big Boat Challenge. [ MORE ] | |
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| 13/12/2002 |
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The super maxi, Alfa Romeo, left no doubt about her hot favouritism for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race with a brilliant runaway win today (13 December 2002) in Sydney Harbour's annual spectacle of the maxi yachts... [ MORE ] | |
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| 10/12/2002 |
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Alfa Romeo, the 90 foot super maxi that is the front runner to take line honours in the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race, will meet her biggest challenger and the only yacht in the race that is larger than Alfa Romeo, when she clashes with Leopard of London... [ MORE ] | |
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| 2/12/2002 |
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The World's fastest super maxi yacht, Alfa Romeo, put in another faultless performance at the weekend... [ MORE ] | |
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| 24/11/2002 |
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The world's fastest Super Maxi, Alfa Romeo, has added another convincing win to her account in preparation for the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Blue Water Classic. [ MORE ] | |
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| 20/11/2002 |
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Alfa Romeo is now the name of the favourite for the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart race and she confirmed her pole position by winning line honours in the Bird Island race from Sydney to Newcastle and return... [ MORE ] | |
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| 16/09/2002 |
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New Zealand Maxi, Shockwave, the world's newest and probably fastest super maxi yacht, is set to become a regular sight on Sydney Harbour before skipper Neville Crichton bids for Line Honours glory in the 2002 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Classic. [ MORE ] | |
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| 5/08/2002 |
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Sydney-based New Zealand yachtsman Neville Crichton has launched his super maxi yacht Shockwave, the bows of the most technically advanced 90-foot maxi aimed at winning line honours in the 2002 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. [ MORE ] | |
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