The 71st Sydney to Hobart race features a 108-yacht fleet, including a record 27 global challengers.
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After a 13-hour chase, Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark’s Comanche regained the lead from George David’s Rambler 88, despite making running repairs to a damaged rudder and daggerboard that almost forced Comanche to join Wild Oats as a withdrawal. “We think we can get to Hobart safely”, Comanche’s accomplished American skipper Ken Read said.
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Race organisers warn those winds against the south-flowing East Australian current will be “very uncomfortable”.
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Both had battled strong southerly winds that hit the gruelling 628-nautical-mile (1,163-kilometre) race, where sailors faced 25-30 knot winds and big gusts against a south flowing current.
Wild Oats and Perpetual Loyal were joined by CEX Dolce who quit with a broken mast; St Jude with a broken rudder and Koa with steering damage.
“This is her 20th race, which is more than any other boat in the fleet this year, and there’s an enormous amount of support in the community, in the sailing community as well, and it is, as you say, the people’s favourite, and it stems from her always being a people’s boat”.
He spread seasonal cheer when he sailed into the harbour towards waiting crews on their yachts decked with tinsel and flags and handed them gifts and champagne.
Wild Oats’ owner Robert Oatley put the yacht through a three-month refit this year with a 10-metre section cut off the bow and a new longer section fitted, along with modifications to the stern, hull and sails.
“One has to expect the unexpected in a Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race and this is what we’re getting and it’s actually marvellous that the number of boats that have retired are as small as they are”, he said on Sunday morning.
Syd Fischer’s supermaxi Ragamuffin 100, currently in third place, will now be a hot contender for line honours along with Rambler 88. “We lost the main engine of the boat, which was the mainsail”.
Late on Monday afternoon she rounded Tasman Island with 40 nautical miles to travel to the Constitution Dock finish line, where she is expected about 9pm (AEDT).
As Comanche hung on to hopes of being able to fix their damage at sea and continue, the race was reeling from a madcap first day of sailing.
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia Commodore, John Cameron, knew the brutal storm on opening night was going to take a toll on this year’s Sydney to Hobart – but not this much.
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Comanche had earlier powered first into open waters with a blistering start, leaving Wild Oats XI and Perpetual Loyal eating dust at the sea mark.
