Frank O'Leary of Kinsale is "Sailor of the Month (Offshore)" for January

1st February 2025

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Frank O'Leary of Kinsale with the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race's Tattersall Cup

There's a considerable body of opinion that reckons the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race - with its 628 miles getting south into noticeably colder latitudes with every mile sailed - is the toughest of them all. And as one of the Christmas season's main sporting events in Australia while also attracting much international interest, it is a pressurised challenge in every way.

So although the Sam Haynes team with Kinsale international gun-for-hire Frank O'Leary on the strength won a recent Hobart with the TP52 Celestial, when they started building a late campaign towards the 2024 RSHR with the chartered Volvo 70 re-named Celestial, it was thought to be somewhat quixotic. Not a bit of it. The new Celestial won overall.

Published in Sailor of the Month, Sydney to Hobart, Kinsale

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