Two sailors die after sail boat pole strikes in Sydney-Hobart yacht race

Tragedy strikes the prestigious Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Australia as two sailors die to traumatic hits from sail booms - boat poles that hold down sails and swing with the wind

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Race organizers said in a statement on their website that both crew members died after they were hit by the sail boom, a horizontal pole which holds down the sails and swings depending on the direction of the wind. A couple of hours later a crew member on another vessel was reported to have also been struck by a sail boom and died.“The sailing community is a very close community, and there’s about a thousand sailors on the water in this race and to lose two in this fashion is just devastating,” said David Jacobs, vice commodore at Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.

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