There were blustery conditions and a strong north easterly wind for the start of the annual Sydney to Hobart race – the wind and conditions nearly ideal for the favourites to push ahead out of Sydney Harbour.
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US yacht Rambler crashes through a wave as she sails towards Wild Oats XI during the start of the Sydney Hobart yacht race in Sydney Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
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“I do feel like I am a sailor now, I am probably blowing my own trumpet there but I knew nothing about sailing before I signed up to the race and now I have sailed more than 15,000 nautical miles”, she said.
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Last year, record-breaking Australian yacht Wild Oats XI pipped her 100-foot American rival by just 55 minutes to add to her bulging trophy cabinet.
Australian Ragamuffin remained in a close-fought contest with Italian-flagged yacht, Maserati.
Fellow big boat Perpetual Loyal, with its celebrity crew contingent including former test skipper Michael Clarke and Wallaby star Kurtley Beale, was also out of the contest and returning to Sydney with a broken rudder.
Race records suggest that not since 2004, when 58 of the 117-start group withdrew, have there been so many retirements.
The 12 teams will set off from Sydney Harbour in Australia tomorrow for the next leg of the world’s longest ocean race.
In between, the 109 yachts, including 27 foreign entries, will sail down the south coast of New South Wales state and across the often treacherous Bass Strait.
Although, with crews and yachts all challenged by a torrid first night that saw many crew members suffer sea sickness and their boats punished by the conditions, more withdrawals were expected.
Alfa Romeo II (2009) and Investec Loyal (2011) are the only two boats to break Wild Oats XI’s stranglehold on the race since 2005.
And back in Sydney, a shattered Wild Oats XI skipper Mark Richards was philosophical about retiring for the first time in the boat’s 10-year history.
However after taking in the latest weather predictions on race eve, Ragamuffin 100 skipper David Witt said it would turn into a two-horse race.
Last year, Comanche, a wide-bodied yacht which prefers stronger winds, led the fleet out of the harbor and for much of the early part of the race.
“Oh they’re competitive all right”, she said.
Rambler 88 also has world-renowned tactician Brad Butterworth (NZL) onboard who is competing in the race for the first time since the fateful 1998 edition when he won line honours onboard Larry Ellison’s Sayonara and a gust of 72 knots blew the wind gear off the mast.
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However, the official starting cannons could not be transferred, forcing organisers to revert to traditions starting methods which will see the race start with a hooter and flags.
