Two sailors have tragically lost their lives during the 2024 Sydney to Hobart yacht race, prompting comparisons to a deadly 1998 event.
Two competitors in the 2024 Sydney to Hobart yacht race , 55-year-old Roy Quaden and 65-year-old Nick Smith, died off New South Wales' south coast on Friday morning after being hit by on-board equipment. This year's deaths have brought back memories for those involved in the 1998 race, including veteran sailor John Stanley, who was rescued after clinging onto a lifeboat for 28 hours. Over the nearly 80-year history of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race , 13 competitors have lost their lives.
Until Friday morning's deaths of two sailors in separate incidents, the most recent tragedies had been in 1998.Veteran sailor John Stanley was one of the 55 competitors rescued by helicopter during the 1998 race. It emerges that one naval architect warned 'six men will be lost overboard', 17 years before the tragedy. He had been on board the 55-foot Winston Churchill, with the nine crew members abandoning ship and taking to two life rafts, after the boat was hammered by wild winds and 20-metre high waves. Three of his crew mates, John Dean, James Lawler, and Michael Bannister, died after losing contact with the life raft. Two competitors on board Tasmanian yacht Business Post Naiad, Bruce Guy and Phil Skeggs, also died, as did Glyn Charles, who was swept overboard from the Sword of Orion. Twenty-eight-hours after leaving the Winston Churchill, Mr Stanley was spotted by a helicopter and rescued.Mr Stanley told The World Today that the conditions coming out of Sydney Heads in 1998 were very similar to what they were this year.Sydney to Hobart won't be cancelled following deaths Photo shows A crew of sailors wearing red hang off the side of a white yacht that is charging through the ocean. A South Australian sailor who died in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race after being struck by a boom is identified as 65-year-old Nick Smith. West Australian 55-year-old Roy Quaden died in a separate, similar incident off the NSW coas
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