"Dr.Who" a classic racing yacht with a formidable racing history, and still holds her own today. Classic yachts like this are rarely available, READY TO GO TODAY

In 1990 Dr. Who was the overall IMS winner in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race with a corrected time of 2-days, 10-Hours, 6-Minutes and 28-Seconds to hold the race record for the best corrected time across all handicaps in the history of the race. The next best finish was "Solo" in 1962, some 2-Hours and 39-minutes slower. Dr. Who held this record until 1999 when "Yendys" broke the record.

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Doctor Who – ‘Derwent Sailing Squadron’    Peter Campbell  ã

Derwent Sailing Squadron Racing- Twenty years ago this December, Hobart racing yacht, Doctor Who and owner Roger Jackman, added their names to ocean racing history when the yacht became only the second handicap winner of the Sydney Hobart Race under the then new IMS Rating system.

No other Tasmanian yacht has done so well under handicap in the ocean classic since Doctor Who’s IMS division win in 1990.

Today, Doctor Who showed she is still a most competitive boat by winning Division 1 of the Derwent Sailing Squadron pennant race on the Derwent.

Back in 1990, Doctor Who also placed 11^th overall in the IOR division, the then rating system that determined the overall winner of the Tattersall’s Cup.

IOR and IMS have long since been replaced by the current IRC system, and Doctor Who’s win today was determined under the PHS handicap system, an arbitrary handicap against a measured rating system. For DSS pennant racing, results are calculated on PHS, IRC and the more recently introduced AMS system.

Today, Doctor Who took Division 1 PHS from Jeff Cordwell’s Host Plus Executive and Don Calvert’s Intrigue, which won under IRC handicaps from Dump Truck (Edward Fader) and Sally Rattle’s Archie. Under AMS handicaps, the results saw a win for Invincible (Harold Clark) from Intrigue and Dump Truck.

Division 1 Boats sailed along a harbour course, while the one- design classes contested two windward/leeward courses and the cruiser/racer divisions sailed a course around river marks in a 10-15 knot east-south-easterly breeze