Congrats to BMWOR sailing team members Rodney Daniel (AUS), Robbie Naismith (NZL) and Paul Westlake (AUS) for their winning ways in the 2005 Sydney-Hobart Race. They were key crew members of Bob Oatley's Wild Oats XI, the first yacht since the inaugural Sydney-Hobart race 60 years ago to "treble" -- first to finish, first on corrected time, and setting a new course record. They lopped 67 minutes off the old record set by Nokia in 1999.


Rodney Daniel.


Robbie "Battler" Naismith.


Paul "Flipper" Westlake.


With a treo of BMWOR sailors aboard, Wild Oats XI en route to
the first Sydney-Hobart "treble" since 1945. Photo courtesy of
Scuttlebutt (North America) and Carlo Borlenghi.