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Yacht club | Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club Yacht Club Costa Smeralda Hamilton Island Yacht Club |
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Nation | Australia |
Class | canting keel IRC supermaxi |
Sail no | AUS–10001 |
Designer(s) | Reichel/Pugh |
Builder | McConaghy Sydney, Australia |
Launched | 2 December 2005 |
Owner(s) | Robert Oatley |
Racing career | |
Skippers | Mark Richards |
Notable victories | 2005–2014, 2018 (nine) Sydney-Hobart 2010 Pittwater-Coffs 2015 Transpac |
Specifications | |
Type | Monohull |
Displacement | 32T, of which 14T ballast |
Length | 30.48 m (100.00 ft) |
Beam | 5.1 m (16.73 ft) |
Draft | 5.91 m (19.39 ft) |
Sail area | mainsail 382 m2 (4,112 sq ft) jib 228 m2 (2,454 sq ft) genoa 535 m2 (5,759 sq ft) spinnaker 880 m2 (9,472 sq ft) |
Crew | 16–29 crew |
Wild Oats XI is a maxi yacht, most famous for being the former race record holder and a nine-times line honours winner of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Launched in 2005, she was owned by Bob Oatley (Oatley's estate since his death in 2016) and skippered by New South Wales Mark Richards, who founded Palm Beach Yachts Australia.