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Free Ranging
4.14p.m. erratic wind all day. The cool change is coming through, which is very nice. The storm has passed us by after dropping minimal rain and a bit of small hail.
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Oh gosh how sadFriday 27th of December 9.16a.m. Warm air, sunny and blowing a NNW guster! Hg 40%, top of 34C / 93F, currently 29.8C / 85.6F. Shower or two. Possible storm.
Moon is 12%
Bellambi is about 15mins north of me.
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Dual tragedies strike Sydney to Hobart as line honours favourite pulls out amid wild weather
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Two Sydney to Hobart sailors have died at sea amid wild weather conditions that left line honours favourite Master Lock Comanche to withdraw among mass retirements.
The race will continue towards Hobart’s Constitution Dock, with the first boats expected to arrive later on Friday or early Saturday morning.
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, which administers the yacht race, has said that one sailor each on entrants Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline were killed after being struck by the boom, a large horizontal pole at the bottom of the sail.
Both boats have since retired from the race, two of the 13 that had pulled out between the starting gun on Boxing Day and 6am on December 27.
The deaths are the first in the 628nm race since the tragic 1998 Hobart, which claimed the lives of six sailors in storms and triggered mass reforms to the race’s safety protocols.
Race organisers are expected to address the media later on Friday morning.