What is "brindabella"

Brindabella may refer to:

• Brindabella Airlines
• Brindabella Business Park, part of Canberra Airport
• Brindabella College in O'Conner, Australian Capital Territory
• Brindabella electorate
• The Brindabella Ranges
• Brindabella National Park
• Brindabella (yacht), a yacht that won the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in 1991 & 1997
• Brindabella Road
• Brindabella Station, the childhood home of Miles Franklin
• Brindabella Valley, the valley of the Goodradigbee River
• Brindabella, New South Wales
• Brindabellas, a housing estate in Bonython, Australian Capital Territory

Brindabella is a maxi yacht. It won line honours in the 1997 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as well as breaking the race record for a conventionally ballasted yacht in 1999.

Described as "Australia’s most famous maxi" and "The people's maxi". She was designed by Scott Jutson in 1993 under the IMS handicap system as a 75 foot maxi and later underwent structural changes including the addition of a bow sprit, and a "scoop" transom.

She has broken many records of races continuing and discontinued, some of which are the Sydney to Hobart record for a conventionally ballasted yacht (1999), the Sydney to Wollongong race, Bird island, Cabbage Tree Island, Sydney Noumea, Sydney Moolooolaba, and Sydney Gold Coast races.

Brindabella continues to race competitively today and remains one of the fastest boats in the fleet, an icon of Australian sailing and a name that is known throughout the sailing world.