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Annabelle Banfield

New boat, same cause: Loyal is back to reclaim record

Tom Slingsby and Anthony Bell hope it will be plain sailing for Loyal in the Sydney-Hobart. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

After a 10-year absence, a new-look Loyal is making a much-anticipated return to the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, ready to recapture the form of its record-setting 2016 run.

Perpetual Loyal took line honours and set a then-race record of one day, 13 hours, 31 minutes and 20 seconds in its last contest of the great race, the start of which has become a Boxing Day viewing must around Australia.

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