All 'by the book', but sailor has narrow escape

10:38 PM Tue 20 Jul 2010 GMT

'Prue Nash after the rescue.jpg' .

She thought that she had done everything right - and she had. She was wearing a life jacket and harness, and was well tethered. But a freak incident still had a British sailor in danger of drowning this week, as she trod water for two hours 50 miles off Land's End after going overboard. Prudence Nash, a yacht broker from Hamble, was sailing on yacht Buccaneer which was returning from a regatta in Cork, Cork Week. It was dark, the winds were Force 6 (21-26 knots) and the seas 3-4 metres when Nash was washed through a guard rail, about ...

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by Nancy Knudsen