Comanche is a new 100 ft racing yacht that was recently launched in the USA, and is currently being shipped to Australia. Design is by the French racing yacht designers VPLP Verdier, and builders were Hodgson Marine in Maine.
LoA is 30.45m, beam 8m, draught 6m. The yacht looks shorter in the photo due to the perspective and angle, but you can see it is about 2 and a half 40 foot containers in length. The 45 metre long mast is wrapped in a brown cover and stowed on the ship's deck.
The yacht has been shipped as deck cargo on the Hamburg-Sud Line vessel "Spirit of Melbourne", IMO 9362413. It was loaded in Charleston and has gone via the Panama Canal and Auckland on the normal East Coast USA to New Zealand and Australia scheduled service of Hamburg-Sud Line.
"Comanche" will be up against the usual Australian 100 ft racing yachts of "Wild Oats", "Perpetual Loyal", "Ragamuffin 100" and others in the 2014 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, which will probably be the most competitive fleet assembled so far.