Sailor perishes in late sail to the Canaries

9:15 PM Tue 30 Nov 2010 GMT

'Lisbon to Lanzarote planned route for Snooker' .

Sailor's lore goes that to cross the Atlantic, the savvy sailor will leave Europe for the Canaries no later than September before the savage winter gales set in. The wisdom of this was proved again this week as a British cruising sailor tragically perished in a journey between Lisbon and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Maritime Rescue in the Canary Islands has reported that the yacht sank after encountering strong winds of about 45 knots and and seven metre seas off the coast of Morocco. After hearing the mayday from the twelve-metre yacht Snooker, the Norwegian merchant ship Tordis Knutsen ...

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