Sydney to Hobart yacht race: third death averted on night of big seas and wild weather

Details have emerged of a “terrifying” incident in which a crew member fell from yacht Porco Rosso and drifted for more than a kilometre before being rescued on a deadly night of racing, during which two sailors on other yachts were killed. Two sailors on separate yachts, Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline, died at sea amid wild weather conditions that forced line honours favourite Master Lock Comanche to withdraw, among mass retirements. The two sailors were fatally struck by booms – a large horizontal pole at the bottom of the sail – on their respective boats. The race’s death toll

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