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Vestas 11th Hour Racing  Repaired. Here’s How the Fatal Accident Unfolded

By George Day · On March 13, 2018

Vestas is back in the water and racing in Auckland New Zealand. They are ready for the start of the next leg that will take the fleet around Cape Horn. But the boat had been badly damaged in the last hours of the approach to China on Leg 6 when they collided with a fishing boat causing the death of one fisherman. They told their harrowing story to the New Zealand Herald Read more.

 

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