It is pretty hard to explain offshore sailboat racing in a paragraph, but the boats that do that range from purpose-built racers with absolutely minimal creature comforts to luxurious yachts to old boats campaigned by low budget family operations to antiques and everything in between. The Sidney-Hobart is one of the toughest races there is that doesn’t go around Cape Horn, so you won’t see a guy who learned to sail last week in a Cal 25 out there, but they do have some relatively modest and older boats in the fleet.
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