Hamburg – The yacht “Wild Oats XI” has established with their eighth victory in the 70th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race record. No other boat has since its premiere in 1945 won the classic sailing from Sydney to Hobart so often. “It is a miracle. It was the hardest, but also the sweetest of victories,” said Robert yacht owners Oatly after the triumph of his nine year old designs over the spectacular US-New “Comanche” on Sunday in Hobart.
The Australian winner yacht crossed the finish line of a race 628 miles in two days or two hours three minutes and 26 seconds on Sunday. As the second yacht favored “Comanche” came from Netscape founder James Clark about an hour later to the finish. Clark proved to be gracious in defeat: “Wild Oats skipper Mark Richards and her have laid a race hell We are disappointed that we are stuck in the high pressure area through which they are slipped through..”
Additional 105 yachts were still at sea. Ten boats had retired by this time. The built in Kiel “Caro” by Max Klink with the Kiel world sailor Michael Müller was eighth in the standings after line honors, the “Passion 4 C” of Bremer’s Stefan Lehnert at position 55. ‘/ P>
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