1956 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Film - Hard to Windward

Hard to Windward - the film of the 1956 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
With thanks to the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office for allowing the film to appear on
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[@concretepolishingcentralco436]

Your channel is a must-watch for me. Thank you!

[@AthelstanEngland]

Wonderful looking boats... you do feel sometimes that 'progress' takes us backwards.

[@ralphcarlier5104]

Great footage It makes you aware that we have it so easy now. These crews really had it hard.

[@speck584]

What a great film. Note almost all wooden boats, wooden masts, hemp rope, wooden blocks etc. I did my first RORC race in 1959 from Plymouth to La Rochelle in a boat called Bluejacket. The leaking decks was something I remember well.

[@olivei2484]

Samuel pepys. I read of this yacht from 1950s in Adlard Coles, but can not recall the owner. Edit: Located Pepys in Coles (Heavy Weather Sailing), and she was a RNSA 24 (Royal Naval Sailing Association, 24 foot on waterline) club boat, Class III ocean racer. The principle boats in the RNSA class were: Minx of Malham, Blue Disa and Samuel Pepys.

[@manfredmatthies618]

thanks very much for the excellent films

[@jonathon640]

I was navigator on Vailima skippered by Jim Mclaren we were turned over new years eve and lost the fwd hatch and were flooded below .No radio but eventualy were found by aircraft whilst on way back to hobart

[@michaelgothenburg364]

Beautiful yachts, unlike today's modern speed monsters

[@NickoOutBush]

True australian hero… r.I.p.

[@scottleft3672]

no skyscrapers...awsome....

[@Za-CAMNEM]

1954? Десять лет, как человечество пережило очередную мировую бойню. Счастливчики, никто из них даже и не догадывается, что будет дальше. Все полнысамых радужных надежд и ожиданий

[@RaFrost]

classic..from the days when men were men and technology was pretty basic.