The Tasmanian man was trying to get home in a yacht when he hit rocks near Portsea.
A 67-year-old man has been rescued by police after trying to sail from the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown to Tasmania.The police Air Wing could not winch him from the deck because of a swinging mast, and had to rescue him from the waterThe Tasmanian man was trying to sail home on Wednesday when problems with his yacht forced him to turn back to Melbourne.
The police Air Wing was called in but the yacht's swinging mast made it unsafe for the man to be winched from the deck. An Air Wing crewman was lowered into the water and told the man to jump into the ocean where he was winched to safety.Water Police will try to recover the yacht this morning.
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