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The classic ocean racing yacht Sanyo Marls has come out of retirement to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her launching by competing in two of Australia's toughest ocean races, the Hempel to Gosford Lord Howe Island and the Rolex Sydney Hobart. Sanyo Maris will be one of the oldest boats in the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet but she has already made yachting history with her comeback by winning IRC honours in the 414 nautical mile Gosford Lord Howe Island race.

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She is the oldest boat in Australian yachting history to win a Category 1 ocean race. Given similar conditions, and with her low IRC rating, she could achieve another top handicap position in the 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart.

Ian Kiernan, a solo round-the-world yachtsman and founder of Clean Up Australia, has owned Sanyo Marls for 38 years but the boat now has three other part-owners, including brother and sister duo Tiare Tomaszewki and Ben Hawke, whose grandfather, the marine artist Jack Earl, was the original owner of Marls. He named the boat after his daughter Marls, their mother. A third new partner is Lord Howe Island identity John Green, but he missed the Lord Howe Island Race after dislocating his shoulder.

Tiare sailed to Lord Howe Island after working tirelessly for almost three months to get the boat prepared for the race across the northern Tasman Sea. She will race to Hobart with her brother Mathew Tomaszewski on the boat, her first Rolex Sydney Hobart, although she has sailed in many other long offshore races.

Brother Ben sailed extensively with Ian Kiernan in the Pacific after bought the boat, and prefers cruising to racing.

Sanyo Maris is a classic yawl-rigged, timber-hulled Tasman Seabird class yacht, designed by the late Alan Payne and launched by Jack Earl in 1958 to replace his famous ketch Kathleen, which he skippered in the inaugural Sydney Hobart in 1945 and later cruised around the world. (The Australian National Maritime Museum now owns Kathleen in its fleet of historic vessels.)

Jack Earl Sexy Leather Lingerie raced Marls to Hobart in 1960 and 1961 (placing 5th overall) before setting sail on an extended cruise of the Pacific with his wife Kathleen and their children. The family lived aboard the boat in Hawaii, Tahiti and other ports.

"Our mother Maris' trip in the Pacific was the reason Tiare and I have Polynesian names," explains Tiare's equally sea-going sister Leilani. "The has second generation ties to many of the people they met then."

When Earl returned to Sydney he put the boat up for sale and, as he recalls, Ian Kiernan was "entranced by Marls sitting in Mosman Bay."

Over the 38 years that he has owned Maris, Kiernan encountered some dramatic moments at sea with the boat, but the day he rowed out to meet Earl for the first time on board Maris certainly had its moments.

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"A savage southerly buster arrived and an out-of-control Bluebird surfed past, gybed, and the boom swept a fat guy into the bay," Kiernan recalls. "He lacked swimming ability and I dived in and got him ashore, re-boarded Marls and rowed back with the sale agreed and the finest friend you could image, Jack Earl."

According to Kiernan, the sale included an agreement in which Earl would teach him how to cross oceans in this wonderful vessel.

"He certainly did that," recalls Kiernan. "I became
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