American philanthropist steps in to support salvage of Gregor McGuckin’s yacht. An American philanthropist with a taste for Irish whiskey has stepped in to support the salvage operation to recover Gregor McGuckin’s yacht Hanley Energy Endurance drifting some 1,200 miles west of Perth, Australia. Speaking from Fremantle overnight, American tug boat skipper Cody Cordwainer, who [...]
• Slats injured in knockdown • Susie Goodall faces storm • Igor Zaretskiy suffers broken forestay • Abhilash Tomy undergoes back surgery • Gregor McGuckin arrives home Dutch skipper Mark Slats alerted Race HQ on Monday that his yacht had just suffered two knock-downs in quick succession and that he had [...]
Latest on Tomy (from 3pm 26 September) The Australian frigate HMAS Ballarat will be within helicopter range of Ile de Amsterdam at first light tomorrow (Thursday) and will commence operations to pick up Gregor McGuckin, one of two Golden Globe Race skippers dismasted during a fierce storm mid-way across the South Indian Ocean last [...]
