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Roger Vaughan

Maritimo dominates 50th Melbourne-Hobart

The Maritimo Racing team have won a host of categories in the 50th Melbourne to Hobart yacht. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Maritimo Racing have ended a tough month in triumph, dominating the 50th Melbourne to Hobart yacht race.

Two days after taking out line honours, they also claimed every handicap category that they had entered in the race.

Maritimo 11 skipper Michael Spies was handed the Heemskerk Perpetual Trophy on Saturday as winners on corrected time on AMS, the handicap category that had the most entrants.

The boat also won the Wrest Point Abel Tasman Trophy for line honours, took out division one on ORC and overall, won on IRC overall, and was awarded the City of Melbourne Perpetual Trophy for first on corrected time on performance handicap.

The Zeehan Trophy was awarded to Maritimo 11's Murray Spence as navigator of the line honours winner.

"Until you have actually competed in it, you don't realise what a challenging race it is, the love that there is for the race, and the history of the race ... it is truly one of the world's great ocean races," Spies said.

Maritimo 11's domination of the race came after the team had to pull out of the Sydney to Hobart.

The Maritimo TP52 yacht was supposed to start in Sydney on Boxing Day, but was damaged in rough seas while sailing to the race.

They tried to enter their Schumacher 54 boat instead, but when that failed they turned their attention to the Westcoaster race.

Other than an early setback that cost them the lead out of Port Phillip Heads, Maritimo dominated the race through some tough conditions.

Maritimo 11 won the 435 nautical mile event in two days, one hour 22 minutes - well outside the race record - and finished in Hobart early on Thursday afternoon.

AdvantEDGE finished one hour 17 minutes later for second across the line and MRV was third, two hours four minutes after Maritimo.

FIka was the last of the 44 boats to finish the 435 nautical mile race, with three retiring.

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