The man behind Hungary's first Sydney to Hobart entrant is also working for several of his potential rivals from the hub of the great race.
Aron "Roni' Ormandlaki, who has contested the race twice in other boats, will skipper M3 Team Hungary with a crew mostly comprising his compatriots and supplemented by some local sailors.
Competing just as M3, the TP52 boat from Western Australia performed well in the past two Hobarts.
Eyeing a good handicap performance for his own boat, Ormandlaki is also responsible for outfitting some of its competitors.
While Hungary is one of the more-distant countries from Australia represented in this year's race, Ormandlaki's business Roni Rigging and Racing is on the doorstep of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, where most of this year's boats are based before the Boxing Day start.
"We're supplying about seven boats in this year's Hobart, who are racing using our ropes or our workmanship," Ormandlaki told AAP.
"So we need to finish everyone else's boat before we get on to ours."
He was far from the only Hungarian with aspirations to participate in Australia's most-famous offshore race.
"Part of my team approached me from Hungary, that this is their dream to go," Ormandlaki said.
"I always had this idea to launch a Hungarian campaign."
With Hungary landlocked, Ormandlaki said his compatriots often contested races in Croatia.
He said plenty of people in Hungary took an interest in the Sydney to Hobart.
"It's winter there so the lake is frozen so no one can sail, so all we can do is watch the news and the internet and reading about the summer sailing," Ormandlaki said.
Several other countries will be represented in this year's race including France, the United States and Hong Kong.
Organisers have confirmed America's Cup-winning skipper Jimmy Spithill will miss this year's race after suffering an elbow tendon injury in preparation with the favoured line-honours contender Comanche.
