Australian skipper Wendy Tuck has claimed line honours in the longest ever leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Sydneysider Tuck's Sanya Serenity Coast reached Punta del Este, Uruguay, on Friday morning AEST, 32 days after starting the event in Liverpool in England.
The journey spanned more than 6,000 nautical miles, a distance the equivalent of 10 Sydney to Hobarts.
It's the second-straight Clipper Race for Tuck, a veteran of 10 Sydney Hobarts, who skippered Da Nang-Vietnam in the last version in 2015-16.
More than 700 essentially amateur sailors -- 47 of them Australians -- are representing 41 different nationalities in the Clipper 2017-18 Race, the 11th in the event's history.
They are racing on 12 identical 70-foot ocean racing yachts, each led by a professional skipper.
Race two starts on October 4, departing Punta del Este for a 3560 nautical mile journey to Cape Town, South Africa.
The fleet will then head to Australia and will race to Fremantle, Sydney, Hobart (as part of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race), and the Whitsundays.
