Volvo Race
on Friday May 19, 2006 08:27AM
The death of a young Dutch sailor who was swept oveboard in the north Atlantic yesterday was reported in the news services early Thursday and later in Scuttlebutt. A link to todays BBC news item to today's BBC news item on this tragedy follows. Those members who went to Baltimore in 1998 to meet Roy Heiner and his crew who finished first in the first Miami to Baltimore leg may have met this sailor who would have been 24 years old at the time. Eight years later he was the oldest member of the AB AMRO Two crew. RIP
** Crew member killed in Volvo race ** A crew member on Volvo Ocean Race yacht ABN Amro Two dies after being swept overboard. The death of a young Dutch sailor who was swept oveboard in the north Atlantic yesterday was reported in the news services early Thursday and later in Scuttlebutt. A link to todays BBC news item on this tragedy follows. Those members who went to Baltimore in 1998 to meet Roy Heiner and his crew who finished first in the first Miami to Baltimore leg may have met this sailor who would have been 24 years old at the time. Eight years later he was the oldest member of the AB AMRO Two crew. RIP