This top director finds risk and resilience lessons on a battered yacht

by · Australian Financial Review

Anne HylandCompanies editor
May 19, 2026 – 10.00pm

There have been many milestones throughout Nicola Wakefield Evans’ four-decade legal and company director career, and most recently she notched up another that might surprise her peers.

Wakefield Evans was one of the 17 crew on Oroton Drumfire, the glamorous yacht owned by billionaire fund manager Will Vicars, which competed in last year’s gruelling Sydney to Hobart race.

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Anne HylandCompanies editorAnne Hyland is the Financial Review’s companies editor. She’s a former deputy editor of Good Weekend and Asia correspondent for the AFR. Email Anne at ahyland@afr.com

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