Grant Wharington has declared his supermaxi Wild Thing 100 a better chance of winning the Sydney to Hobart on handicap than claiming the line honours prize usually contested by boats her size. But the race gave Wharington a level of confidence completely absent last year, when he scrambled to add 20 extra feet of length to Wild Thing's predecessor, Stefan …
Christian Beck says his chances of claiming back-to-back Sydney to Hobart wins on board LawConnect are slim — specifically 30 per cent. Proud skipper of his supermaxi yacht, Beck would love nothing more than to win the 628-nautical-mile race again, but there's new management at the helm of long-standing rival Master Lock Comanche. Last year LawConnect stunned Comanche, under John …
The skipper of the line honours-winning yacht in this year's Sydney to Hobart race says the victory is all the more remarkable because his boat, LawConnect, is a "shitbox" compared to second-place getter and race favourite Andoo Comanche. "Shitbox" or not, LawConnect overtook Andoo Comanche in the River Derwent in the final moments of the 2023 race to take out …
In short: LawConnect has beaten Andoo Comanche to the finish line by just 51 seconds to claim line honours. In a finish for the ages, LawConnect has sensationally overtaken Andoo Comanche in the final moments to snatch line honours in the 2023 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. First local boat home URM Group has claimed third place line honours, crossing …