Inaugurated in 2024, the 1250-mile Trans-Tasman Sydney-Auckland Race is a demanding offshore challenge. Line honours in the maiden race were taken by the Santa Cruz 72 Antipodes, while the overall winner was "the Irish boat", Mickey Martin's updated TP52 Frantic, which, at the beginning of time as we know it, was Eamonn Conneely of Connemara's first Patches.
The 2025 Sydney-Auckland gets going this Saturday, and once again the headline players are Antipodes and Frantic, with Frantic seen as the Irish boat in more ways than one, as once again a lead crewmember is Trevor Smyth, formerly of Clontarf but now very much into the Australian sailing scene.

















































