A tragic accident has taken the life of a company director in England when his 29-foot yacht fell over in her pop stands while he was working on it recently. As reported in The Mirror, the 56-year-old was a member of the Weymouth Sailing Club and had been performing maintenance on the half-tonne wooden vessel when the accident occurred.
“A yachtsman has been crushed to death by his own boat which fell on him while he worked on it at a yacht club. The 56-year-old man was carrying out general repairs beneath the 29ft sailing yacht when it suddenly toppled over on to him. He was found under the half-a-ton wooden vessel and although ambulance paramedics tried to save him, he was pronounced dead at the Weymouth Sailing Club in Dorset. Members there said the victim, thought to be a company director, had joined the club a year ago after moving to the area.” Read more.
