{"id":376811,"date":"2025-12-28T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376811\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:17:14","slug":"overall-winner-yet-to-be-decided-as-sydney-to-hobart-yacht-race-enters-fourth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376811\/","title":{"rendered":"Overall winner yet to be decided as Sydney to Hobart yacht race enters fourth day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sydney to Hobart yacht race has entered the fourth day, after Master Lock Comanche claimed line honours late on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The overall winner may not be known for several days as many of the fleet are still making their way to Hobart.<\/p>\n

But Celestial V70, which crossed the finish line at 05:14:34 on Monday, is still a contender.<\/p>\n

The first yacht across the finish line is the line honours winner, not the overall winner. The overall or handicap winner is calculated by a number of factors, including the size of the boat.<\/p>\n

Live: Sydney to Hobart yacht race<\/a><\/p>\n

Comanche crosses the finish line first, taking out line honours in the 80th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, after a speedy race up the River Derwent. Follow live.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Master Lock Comanche finished<\/a> at 18:03:36 after a cat-and-mouse run down Tasmania’s east coast.<\/p>\n

Comanche was followed up Hobart’s River Derwent by LawConnect, SHK Scallywag 100, Lucky and Palm Beach XI on Sunday, and Celestial V70 on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Comanche’s competing time was 2 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes and 36 seconds \u2014 well shy of the line honours race record it set back in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Master Lock Comanche crosses the finish line. (Supplied: Sydney Hobart Yacht Race)<\/p>\n

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Master Lock Comanche came powering up the River Derwent to nab line honours. (ABC News: Maren Preuss)<\/p>\n

During last year’s event, the boat was forced to retire early due to mainsail damage.<\/p>\n

Co-owner and co-skipper James Mayo said this year’s win was “unfinished business”.<\/p>\n

“Last year was brutal, but it was unfinished business,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We wanted redemption and we said, ‘Let’s do it again.’<\/p>\n

“The crew are incredible. If you are going to achieve great sporting achievements, you can’t do it without a fantastic team, and that is what we have.”<\/p>\n

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Co-owners of Master Lock Comanche, Matt Allen and James Mayo, celebrated docking in Hobart in the 2025 Sydney Hobart yacht race. (ABC News: Maren Preuss)<\/p>\n

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Comanche’s competing time was 2 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes and 36 seconds. (ABC News: Maren Preuss)<\/p>\n

LawConnect crossed the finish line in second place \u2014 roughly 47 minutes behind at 18:50:40.<\/p>\n

The owner and skipper of the line honours runner-up, Christian Beck, said they were leading on the first night, when they sustained some damage and broke a mainsheet.<\/p>\n

\"LawConnect<\/p>\n

LawConnect crew taping sail tears at first light on Sunday. (Supplied: LawConnect)<\/p>\n

“Those things \u2014 we fixed them but they took time,” Beck said.<\/p>\n

“If that didn’t happen, we would have been leading up until the transition and then probably would be OK through there.<\/p>\n

“But as soon as that heavier wind came in, Comanche was always going to overtake us.<\/p>\n

“We did well at the start but made some errors.”<\/p>\n

Eighty-eight boats are still at sea, with one of them still in New South Wales.<\/p>\n

Six boats still have not reached half-way.<\/p>\n

Participants described it as a tough race, with a quarter of competing yachts retiring by Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

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Participants described it as a tough race. (Supplied: Sydney Hobart Yacht Race)<\/p>\n

Multiple boats pulled out due to damage being sustained, as well as seasickness in crews.<\/p>\n

Comanche’s Mayo said the crew lost the bowman about 3 minutes after the start.<\/p>\n

“He suffered a pretty bad injury,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Maybe he has some broken ribs. We’re not quite sure yet, so he was out for the whole race from the first turning buoy.”<\/p>\n

Cruising Yacht Club of Australia vice-commodore David Jacobs said it felt like “being on a five-storey building and doing a belly flop into a swimming pool”.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Monday morning, he said competitors for the overall winner will have had the benefit of the northerly wind, giving them a very good run down the coast.<\/p>\n

“The first two days were really tough. It was strong winds, 25 knots, sometimes gusting up to 30-35 [knots]. We even had some reports of 40-45 [knots]” he said.<\/p>\n

“They’ve been going straight into the wind.<\/p>\n

“Now it’s a bit nicer, the wind’s moved around, the seas have dropped a bit. It’s more pleasant sailing.”<\/p>\n

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The overall winner is yet to be decided. (ABC News: Maren Preuss)<\/p>\n

Follow the yachts as they sail for Hobart with the official race tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney to Hobart yacht race has entered the fourth day, after Master Lock Comanche claimed line honours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,30558,203115,201896,203111,203118,203117,203114,203112,184178,38079,203116,33754,85,203113,167624,199473,167625],"class_list":["post-376811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bass-strait","tag-celestial-v70","tag-comanche","tag-constitution-dock","tag-cruising-yacht-club-of-australia","tag-cyca","tag-handicap-winner","tag-hobart-waterfront","tag-lawconnect","tag-rolex","tag-rough-conditions","tag-sailing","tag-sports","tag-supermaxis","tag-sydney-to-hobart","tag-sydney-hobart","tag-yacht-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}