For a second consecutive year, Sydney to Hobart heavyweight URM Group was left with little option but to pull out of the race.
Jasper Bruce
The contest for overall honours in a slower-than-usual Sydney to Hobart race has yet to be decided, three days after the fleet set off on Boxing Day.
Ethan James
A major boilover is on the cards as one race favourite does running repairs with sticky tape.
Ethan James, AAP
Master Lock Comanche has won Sydney to Hobart line honours after outpointing its supermaxi rivals in a "dogfight" down Tasmania's east coast.
South Australian two-hander Inukshuk has been forced to retire from the Sydney to Hobart after an unfortunate run-in with a fishing net.
Two supermaxis at the head of the Sydney to Hobart race are locked in a close battle, with several big-name yachts forced to pull the pin in rugged conditions.
Ethan James and Jasper Bruce
The crew of Sydney to Hobart yacht Yendys are baffled as to how one of her two backstays could have snapped only minutes before the starting gun on Boxing Day.
Sydney to Hobart sailors are now required to wear personal locator beacons on deck, with organisers confident new safety rules will have the desired effect.
A handful of boats had already retired as line-honours favourite Master Lock Comanche led the Sydney to Hobart fleet into the first night of racing.
There's no one Marc Ryckmans would rather sail alongside in the Sydney to Hobart than his identical twin brother Louis.
Six supermaxis will compete for line honours while plenty of others eye a handicap victory in the 80th running of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
With beautiful mahogany finishes, a huge sail area and double cockpit, Oroton Drumfire might just be the prettiest yacht in the Sydney to Hobart fleet.
Some words of wisdom from the late Frank Costa are inspiring Ambition co-skipper Chris Dare ahead of the 2025 Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
The Sydney to Hobart will be raced for a 80th time on Boxing Day with six 100ft supermaxis and 16 international entrants among the fleet of 129 boats.
The yacht formerly known as Wild Oats XI is returning to the Sydney to Hobart after undergoing significant modifications and a rebrand.
The Sydney to Hobart will pay tribute to the victims of the Bondi terror attack when the 80th running of the race commences on Boxing Day.
Despite a bumpy first night, the Sydney to Hobart fleet is in for more mild conditions than in 2024, when two lives were lost.
There'll be plenty of festive cheer aboard Perplexity as seven American sailors take part in the Sydney to Hobart for the first time.
Originally from Brittany in northwest France, Sydney to Hobart skipper Maud Demazure was quite literally born to sail.
Przemyslaw Tarnacki's seven-year wait to race the Sydney to Hobart for a second time is now over, with the Polish sailor ready to skipper a "beast" of a boat.
Joanna Guelas
For Sydney to Hobart power couple Annika and Ian Thomson, clearing the ocean of rubbish is a mission many years in the making.
With last year's heartache still burning, Master Lock Comanche co-skipper James Mayo is out to end rival LawConnect's stranglehold on the Sydney to Hobart race.
