Comanche finished runner-up for line honours to Wild Oats XI in her first Sydney to Hobart past year and has been a hot favourite after setting a new 24-hour monohull record of 618.01 nautical miles in July.
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Photo taken on December 26, 2015 shows Supermaxi yachts Rambler (L) Perpetual Loyal (2nd-L) Wild Oats XI (R) and Comanche (2nd-R) after the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Sydney.
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American super-yacht Comanche was leading the fleet in Australia’s Sydney to Hobart on Saturday, after bolting out of the harbour at the start of the gruelling 628-nautical-mile (1,163 kilometre) race.
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“They weren’t happy when they didn’t win previous year… they race to win”.
CORRECTION: Comanche’s official finish time for the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was 2 days, 8 hours, 58 minutes and 30 seconds.
The victory will be a sweet moment for the crew of Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark’s yacht.
“That’s one hard, hard body of water”.
Its crew spent 13 hours battling to regain the lead from Rambler 88, which belatedly discovered it too had sustained damage.
It prompted the boat to turn back to Sydney, surrendering the lead to fellow-US yacht Rambler.
Two American boats held the top two positions as the leaders worked their way down Tasmania’s east coast and the bad weather eased overnight.
Ragamuffin passed Rambler as the yachts turned towards Hobart and throughout Tuesday morning they crept along the Derwent River to the finish at barely two knots.
The third-placed yacht, Australian supermaxi Ragamuffin also suffered damage after high winds and heavy seas struck the fleet on the first night out from Sydney. “He even put his wife on the boat for her first offshore race – it was a baptism of fire but she was all smiles when she stepped on the docks and lifted that trophy”. “I have a feeling we’ve got some pretty big gashes”.
After eight-time victor and defending champion Wild Oats XI pulled out with a torn mainsail on Saturday night and another Australian entry Perpetual Loyal also withdrew, line honours has opened up for the worldwide raiders.
Among them was Ark323, one of two Chinese entries and one of 27 foreign boats in the race which draws spectators on land and in boats in Sydney on Boxing Day.
Rambler remains on track to finish second.
“I was scared at one point: we lost a dagger board, I’m not sure how – we might have hit something – but it kind of tore through our rudder and that sound was terrifying”, she said.
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Early Sunday, 15 yachts had retired from the 108 starters.
