From the following article submitted to Sail-World by Lisa Ratcliff:
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Team-Australia:-Big-Birds-record-flight-to-Auckland/115894
When they passed between Auckland’s North Head and the leading lights at Rangitoto Channel at 9:12:43NZT this morning, the six-man crew on the giant multihull from Sydney nicknamed ‘Big Bird’ set a new world speed passage record from Sydney to Auckland.
Once verified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council, it will be Team Australia’s second speed record in eight months having slayed the previous fastest time for the passage from Sydney to Hobart back in February.
Skipper Sean Langman bravely predicts their elapsed time of 2 days 19 hours 2 minutes 45 seconds and 18.8 knot average speed for the Trans-Tasman ocean crossing will stand for decades.
'We had perfect conditions, essentially we beam reached on port to the tip of NZ, gybed, parked for a couple of hours then beam reached on starboard to the finish, a scenario that is basically unheard of.
read more here
and a series of photos from the finish by Peter Idoine:
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Images-from-Team-Australias-finish-at-end-of-new-record-mark/115892
and a video from nine news of their departure in Sydney:
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