Two sailors on separate boats have been killed in boom accidents two hours apart on a storm-ravaged first night of the annual ...

Champagne corks often pop and loud, boisterous cheers are usually heard around Constitution Dock when the Sydney to Hobart ...

One of the crew members, 55-year-old Roy Quaden on Flying Fish Arctos, was hit on the head by a boom as the fleet raced down the New South Wales coast, race organizers said. The other man, 65-year-old ...

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, which administers the yacht race, said Friday that one sailor each on entrants Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline were killed after being struck by the boom ...

Smith hit his head on a winch after being thrown across Bowline, while Quaden was struck on the head by the boom of Flying Fish Arctos. Celebrations have been tempered on shore in Hobart ...

One of the crew members, 55-year-old Roy Quaden on Flying Fish Arctos, was hit on the head by a boom as the fleet raced down the New South Wales coast, race organisers said. The other man ...

In a separate incident, Roy Quaden, 55, from Western Australia was struck by the sailing boom while on Flying Fish Arctos. 'We're not doing any celebrations on the boat. We'll be doing that ...

One of the crew members, 55-year-old Roy Quaden on Flying Fish Arctos, was hit on the head by a boom as the fleet raced down the New South Wales coast, race organisers said. The other man, 65-year-old ...

Western Australia's Mr Quaden, 55, was on Flying Fish Arctos when he was hit by the boat's boom - a pole along the bottom of a sail. Crew members attempted CPR at sea but neither could be saved.

Around two hours later disaster struck again as another sailor on the Flying Fish Arctos was also struck by a sail boom and died. He was later identified as Roy Quaden, 55, from Western Australia ...

One individual was a 55-year-old man from Western Australia on Flying Fish Arctos, and the second was a 65-year-old from South Australia who was on Bowline. "Fly Fishing Arctos was sailing ...