Sydneysider Wendy Tuck has helped set a piece of Clipper Round the World yacht race history with line honours in the leg which has finished in her home city.
Tuck's boat Sanya Serenity Coast completed the 2500 nautical mile race from Fremantle to Sydney on Friday morning, taking just over 12-and-a-half days.
She had less than 17 minutes to spare over Visit Seattle, the boat with the race's other female skipper, Nikki Henderson of England.
Originally from western Sydney, Tuck described winning the race into her home city as unbelievable and "pretty cool".
It marked the first time in Clipper history that female skippers had finished first and second in a leg.
"It's amazing," said Tuck whose boat entered the leg fourth out of the 11 competitors.
Henderson, who at 24, is the youngest skipper in Clipper race history, has stressed the significance of the historic one-two stretched beyond the event.
"I think it's fantastic for the industry, not just Clipper," Henderson told AAP.
"More and more women are getting into the sport and it's a good example to set for everyone else, so I'm happy to do that."
Tuck's boat also finished first across the line in the opening Clipper race leg, but was officially placed second after redress was granted to another yacht.
"This is ours now and no one can take it away - we've got it and we own it," said Tuck, whose multi-national crew included several other Australians.
The next Clipper leg will be the Sydney to Hobart race, in which Tuck has good form.
She is one of just 17 women to have done the race 10 times.
Tuck took line honours among the Clipper fleet contesting the 2015 Sydney-Hobart and she also won the Jane Tate Memorial Trophy for being the first female skipper across the line in Australia's greatest offshore event.
The Clipper race, which is contested by crews of amateur sailors with a professional skipper on each boat, is in its 11th edition and won't finish until mid-2018.
Australia is on the schedule for a third time, with a race from Hobart to the Whitsundays completing local competition.
