Why did the Grizzly Bear sink? - yacht mystery

11:29 PM Sun 19 Sep 2010 GMT

'Dennis - no memory of incident' .

Was it shock after some traumatic incident? or had he had a heart attack? Mystery still surrounds the sinking of the yacht Grizzly Bear, 35 nautical miles off the Queensland coastline last week. The story told by New Zealand sailor Dennis McManaway, who was solo sailing his yacht Grizzly Bear does not cast any light on the subject either, as he cannot remember the incident. He told to the NZ Herald this week that, during a solo sail from the Gold Coast to Cairns, all was going well but then he woke to find his 11.5m yacht sinking and him ...

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by Sail-World Cruising/NZ Herald