Two sailors died in separate accidents during the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Roy Quaden and Nick Smith were killed while sailing on different yachts.
The two sailors killed overnight in the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race have been identified, as the race continues in wild conditions. Roy Quaden, 55, from Western Australia and Nick Smith, 65, from South Australia, were sailing on two different yachts when they were killed in separate accidents.
Quaden was a crew member on Flying Fish Arctos when he was struck by the yacht's boom (a large horizontal pole at the bottom of the sail) approximately 30 nautical miles east/south-east of Ulladulla. Crew members attempted CPR but could not revive their crewmate, notifying the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in Canberra of the incident around 11.50pm. Just hours later at around 2am, Smith, a crew member on Bowline was hit by the mainsheet (a rope that controls the mainsail of the yacht) which threw him across the boat and he hit his head on a winch, vice commodore of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, David Jacobs told reporters on Friday. The Bowline crew also attempted CPR but were unsuccessful. Another man on the Bowline injured his shoulder and was taken to paramedics in Batemans Bay for treatment. Both yachts have since retired from the race – two of the 17 pulled out by 8.45am on Friday after a west-southwesterly change brought strong winds to the southern NSW Coast and Bass Strait. The deaths are the first in the 628-nautical mile race since the tragic 1998 Sydney to Hobart race, in which six sailors died in severe storms. That led to mass reforms of race safety protocols. Details also emerged of a 'terrifying' incident off Sydney to Hobart yacht Porco Rosso, in which a crew member swept more than 1km overboard in heavy seas. The sailor, Luke Watkins, was thrown overboard as the 2013 handicap winner, formerly known as Victoire, made her way past Green Cape on the NSW south coast in the strong winds that had been forecast. 'We went down a rather large wave
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