{"id":500688,"date":"2026-02-24T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500688\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:33:07","slug":"trans-tasman-yacht-race-from-sydney-to-auckland-postponed-after-withdrawal-of-most-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500688\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans-Tasman Yacht Race from Sydney to Auckland postponed after withdrawal of most entries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first running of the Trans-Tasman Yacht Race between Sydney and Auckland has been called off days out from the start, after the withdrawal of the majority of entries.<\/p>\n

The 1,270 nautical mile (2,352km) race was set down for a February 27 start, finishing off the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland.<\/p>\n

The race had been listed as the third and final leg of the Southern Cross Series, including the Cabbage Tree Island Race and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.<\/p>\n

However the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia on Tuesday announced the postponement of the blue-water race.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the CYCA said that due to the withdrawal of nine of the 11 entries \u2014 a number due to damage in other races this summer \u2014 the event was no longer “operationally viable”.<\/p>\n

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Among the withdrawals were URM Group, a leading contender for line honours and overall victory in the 2025 Sydney to Hobart.<\/p>\n

URM Group was one of many boats forced to retire from last year’s race, sustaining bulkhead damage.<\/p>\n

It is understood the boat was unable to be repaired in time for the trans-Tasman event.<\/p>\n

CYCA commodore Sam Haynes said that while the outcome was disappointing, postponing the event was “the most responsible decision” for the club.<\/p>\n

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“We pride ourselves on running high-profile competitive events and we believe the late reduction in this fleet does not reflect that,” Haynes said.<\/p>\n

“We remain committed to offshore racing and to developing new racing opportunities that have strong participant and stakeholder support.<\/p>\n

“We’d like to thank those members and owners that had entered the race for their support and also acknowledge our finish partner, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.”<\/p>\n

No new date has been set. The CYCA said a date would be considered after a strategic review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first running of the Trans-Tasman Yacht Race between Sydney and Auckland has been called off days out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,22065,63,251854,203117,251852,193184,33754,251855,588,85,670,251851,251853],"class_list":["post-500688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-commondore","tag-cyca","tag-entries","tag-postponed","tag-sailing","tag-sam-haynes","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-trans-tasman-yacht-race","tag-withdraw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}