The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual yacht racing event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day, and finishing in Hobart ...

Two sailors have been killed hours apart in Australia’s most prestigious annual yacht race. The crew members died after being struck by the sail boom, a horizontal pole which holds down the ...

Two sailors died after being struck by sail booms in separate incidents during the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race as crews grappled with treacherous conditions across the notorious Bass Strait.

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 ...

Two sailors have been killed in separate incidents in the treacherous Sydney to Hobart yacht race, officials said on Friday, as a string of yachts retired in powerful winds and high seas.

Tragedy has hit the Sydney-Hobart yacht race with two sailors dying in separate incidents over the past 24 hours. A statement was released by race organisers at 5:35am Friday morning revealing the ...

Dec. 26 (UPI) --Two crew members participating in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Australia are dead after separate accidents at sea, police announced late Thursday. Officials said the crew ...

RECASTS, UPDATES cause of one death with race organisers' news conference, UPDATES yacht positions Two sailors have been killed in separate incidents in the treacherous Sydney to Hobart yacht race ...