A Sydney to Hobart favourite is back in the line-up for 2026, sporting the same ambition but a new name.
Billionaire tech entrepreneur Christian Beck will once again skipper a supermaxi aiming for line honours in Hobart, but has swapped one of his businesses for another on the sails.
The two-time line honours-winning LawConnect crew will return under the name InfoTrack after five years, hoping to defy the supposed curse of renaming a boat.
"We had InfoTrack for three years (2018-2020) and they were a great team to work with," Beck said.
"I had another business that wanted to do it as well, and we won a couple, so we kept that for five years.
"InfoTrack, they're just so keen and so good to work with that we switched it back for that reason."
It's not the only change made to the vessel, with a number of technological advancements aboard the ambitious yacht.
"We've taken half off the keel, which makes us lighter," Beck added.
"We took it off the front of the keel, which brings the nose up a bit. In the heavy weather, we're probably about similar, but in the light weather we should be just a bit faster than we were last year."
After live streaming the race last year with a slew of cameras on board, this year's broadcast will be around the clock and feature six cameras.
Celebrity ambassador Matty J (Matt Johnson) joins the crew as part of the team's efforts to raise $50,000 for charity partner Starlight Children's Foundation.
The former Bachelor contestant may have had a couple of televised dates on yachts, but he is certainly a newbie when it comes to racing.
"My sailing experience is pretty limited," the reality TV personality admitted.
"I've been on a few cruise ships so I've experienced the high seas, but I've never been on a working yacht. I don't even know where starboard is."
For the skipper, the foundation is also close to heart after his 19-year-old son turned crew member Indy had a major health scare last year.
"(Indy) was paralysed in the ICU for 13 days," Beck said.
"He was very bad, but he recovered fully, which obviously doesn't always happen.
"I think when something like that happens, you do feel far more for anyone with disabilities and sickness."
With the fundraising cause on top of the agenda, Beck was still keen to reignite the competition with rival supermaxi Loyal and their skipper.
"Anthony Bell, who has done it all, used to own our boat, and what I'm hoping is that he'll be very involved in the race and that'll maximise the chances we can win," the skipper quipped.
"(Bell's boat) is better than our boat in every way. It was built a few years after our boat and it was a copy of our boat.
"It's very very hard to beat that, so there has to be a big difference in the quality of the crew to offset that very big difference in the boat."
