The Rolex Trophy Passage tag heuer carrera watch Series is scheduled to be held on 19th and 20th of December.This regatta is open for those boats which will not be participating in the traditional format of the windward-leeward races.Introduced in 2008 by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, the Rolex Trophy Passage Series serves as an alternative IRC rated-series that allows the boats and crew to be part of the lead-up event without chartering the traditional route of the windward-leeward races.The Rolex Trophy Passage Series will have one offshore passage race on each day of the event and it comes as a bonus for the yachts as they get to play on the waters over a range of 17-27 nautical miles.The fleet in the Rolex Trophy Passage Series will go ahead to the Rating Series tag heuer carrera watch entrants for the races to be held over the weekend, though there will still be a handful who elect to sail only in the passage races.This list includes Victoria’s Calm, a TP 52 co-owned by Jason Van der Slot and Bruce Taylor’s IRC 40 Chutzpah.The Cruicing Yacht Club of Australia yachts to join them would be Evolution Racing, Shortwave, Matt Short’s TP52, Ragamuffin, Howard Piggott’s Beneteau First 40 Flying Cloud, Leslie Green’s Swan 60 Ginger, Tony Kirby’s X-41 Patrice Six, Colin Wood’s Cookson 50 Pretty Fly III and the Jones 70 Ichi Ban, owned by the CYCA Commodore Matt Allen.
The 2009 Rolex Trophy Rating Series which comprises of a total of 6 races and is scheduled to take place from December 17 to 20 and will be beginning today.The series boasts of an extremely impressive and competitive line-up.The series has a changed format for the 2009 races as there would be two days of windward-leeward races (i.e.a total of 4 races) which will be followed by two days of passage races.The Rolex Trophy Rating Series comes after a three day break from the Rolex Trophy One Design Series.Rolex became the tag heuer carrera watch naming rights sponsor of the Rolex Trophy Series in the year 2003, which was previously known as the British Trophy.The regatta is a celebrated event in its own right and proves to be a significant lead-up event to the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.The Rolex Trophy Rating Series is for individual yachts and is a standalone series which is held annually in the month of December.The line-up of participants for this year includes 15 yachts, most of which have also got entries in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Rating Series.The 100ft Alfa Romeo is sure to be the center of attraction for fans as it is by far the largest yacht in the regatta.The Alfa Romeo is not only attracting attention for its size but also due to the various line honors and records that the big boat is tag heuer carrera watch setting along the way.The 100ft sailing wonder is owned by New Zealander Neville Crichton and will have on board a heavy-weight crew which includes Peter Merrington, Noel ‘Nitro’ Drennan, Murray Spence, Stu Bannatyne, Michael Coxon, and McConaghy Boats’ managing director, Jonno Morris.The crew will definitely use this opportunity to train and prepare for the forthcoming events in order to maintain their winning streak.
