Master Lock Comanche and LawConnect race out of Sydney Harbour during the start of the 80th edition of The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day in Sydney, Australia December 26, 2025. REUTERS/Hollie Adams
MELBOURNE, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Master Lock Comanche took line honours in the Sydney to Hobart race on Sunday after pulling clear of a three-way tussle with supermaxis LawConnect and HSK Scallywag 100.
The Matt Allen and James Mayo-owned Comanche finished in two days, five hours, three minutes and 36 seconds, a year after being forced to retire in the blue-water classic due to mainsail damage.
LawConnect's line honours title defence stumbled early on Sunday with a broken sail. Crew scrambled to tape up the shredded mainsheet, in video posted on social media.
Bad weather forced dozens of boats out of the 128 starters to retire.
Covering about 630 nautical miles (1,170 km), the gruelling annual race takes yachts south along Australia's east coast, across the notoriously treacherous Bass Strait, and on to the finish in Hobart, capital of the island-state of Tasmania.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne, additional reporting by Aadi Nair; Editing by Sonali Paul)
