This is Matt’s third win — twice as a skipper, one as a crew member back in the 1980s — so we are delighted to announce that really well deserved victory.
ICHI Ban emerges victorious in the Bluewater Classic Sydney-Hobart. AFP
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australian yacht Ichi Ban won the Bluewater Classic Sydney-Hobart handicap honors for being the boat that performed best according to size.
The grueling 628-nautical mile race down Australia’s east coast, which started in Sydney Harbour on 26 December, awards trophies for a line honor winner and an overall handicap winner.
The TP52 Ichi Ban, skippered by Matt Allen, crossed the finish in 11th place on Saturday night, about 12 hours behind line honors winner Comanche.
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“This is Matt’s third win — twice as a skipper, one as a crew member back in the 1980s — so we are delighted to announce that really well deserved victory,” Cruising Yacht Club of Australia commodore Paul Billingham said.
Ichi Ban, which first won the Sydney-Hobart in 2017, finished in two days, six hours, 18 minutes and five seconds.
But the crew had to wait until others completed their race to find out if they had the best corrected time to lift the Tattersall Cup, which they eventually did on Monday morning.
Allen said it was a “great thrill” to win the 75th Sydney-Hobart race, saying his crew was “ecstatic” to achieve the notoriously difficult task.
“There is pressure all the way from Sydney to Hobart and then you need to beat all the other boats of different sizes,” he told public broadcaster ABC.
“We were leading the race most of the time from Sydney but you need the weather gods to help you a little as well to get the overall win.”
“The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is so hard to win and it has been a long wait since we have been at the dock in Hobart to wait to be declared the overall winner for 2019.”
The overall result came after Quest moved to third place on the leaderboard by winning a protest against Envy Scooters for failing to keep clear of Quest on starboard tack and forcing the other boat to bear away to avoid a collision.
Envy Scooters was penalized two hours and dropped to sixth place overall as a result.
