Then she will “put a new mast on the boat and start racing again”. Keen local sailors Clare McAuliffe and her son, Zac Sayle, 18, came to Victoria Harbour from Seddon in Melbourne’s west to ...
The Scottish National Trust has been accused of putting lives at risk over its opposition to mobile masts in the Highlands. The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has filed objections to a number ...
The impact on landing broke the mast in two places, sending it hurtling towards her. Fortunately, the debris glanced off the cockpit roof and over the side of the boat. With Medallia being ...
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Two experienced sailors who died in freakishly similar circumstances within hours of one another during a treacherous night in ...
Marine Area Command Superintendent Jospeh McNulty said Mr Quaden had been struck in the head by the boom, which attaches the sail to the mast of the yacht. “It was moving violently through the ...
The boom is a long pole that extends perpendicularly from the bottom of the mast and is attached to the bottom of the sail. It allows crews to control the sail’s shape and angle in response to ...
At least 69 people died, including 25 Malian nationals, after a boat headed from West Africa to Spain capsized off Morocco on Dec. 19, Malian authorities said. The makeshift boat was carrying ...
A 24-year-old North Carolina woman was killed and three others were critically injured when a motorboat crashed into a sailboat in the Florida Keys on Friday night, according to law enforcement ...