Two sailors have died in separate accidents two hours apart on the first night of the 2024 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
Two sailors on separate boats have been killed in boom accidents two hours apart on a storm-ravaged first night of the annual ...
The men’s bodies returned to shore on Friday morning after they died aboard the Flying Fish Arctos and the Bowline as the famous race suffered its first fatalities in more than 25 years.
Champagne corks often pop and loud, boisterous cheers are usually heard around Constitution Dock when the Sydney to Hobart line honors winner finishes in the Tasmanian state capital.
They said one sailor each on the entrants Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline was killed after being struck by their yacht's boom - a large horizontal pole at the bottom of a sail. The names of the ...
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, which administers the yacht race, said Friday that one sailor each on entrants Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline were killed after being struck by the ...
A sailor aboard Flying Fish Arctos and another on Bowline were fatally struck by their respective yachts' booms; the heavy horizontal pole at the bottom of the mainsail which swings at high speed ...
The two men on different boats, the Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline, died just hours apart in pitch black waters off the NSW south coast, as they changed sails. Roy Quaden, 55, had travelled from ...
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, which administers the yacht race, has said that one sailor each on entrants Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline were killed after being struck by the ...
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, which administers the yacht race, said Friday that one sailor each on entrants Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline were killed after being struck by the ...
The fatalities occurred overnight on the Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline vessels after the competition started on Boxing Day, organizers and the police said.
Mr Quaden was a member of the Flying Fish Arctos crew, while Mr Smith was aboard the yacht Bowline. Bowline crew members: Melanie Bushby, Banjo Greaves, Nick Smith, Troy Mohler and Paul Senior.