Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race LIVE: Two Sailors Die Due to Harsh Storm Prompting Investigation

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race LIVE: Two Sailors Die Due to Harsh Storm Prompting Investigation

Two sailors on separate Sydney to Hobart yachts, Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline, have died at sea on the first night of the race. They were fatally struck by booms – a large horizontal pole at the bottom of the sail – on their respective boats amid wild weather conditions that forced line honours favourite Master Lock Comanche to withdraw, among mass retirements. Roy Quaden, a 55-year-old crew member from Western Australia, was struck in the back of the head by the boom.

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