A couple say they encountered waves the size of buildings, winds they couldn’t stand in and “whiteness everywhere” as they awaited rescue on their broken yacht off the coast of Sydney.
Irishman Nick Dwyer and Frenchwoman Barbara Heftman arrived safely in Balmain on Wednesday night aboard a NSW Police rescue vessel with the “absolute heroes” who travelled more than 200 nautical miles in treacherous seas to save them.
“We owe them our lives,” Mr Dwyer said.
The experienced sailors had been sailing from New Zealand to Australia in a 12-metre vessel as part of a 10-year circumnavigation of the globe when the yacht’s rudder broke on Saturday.
They activated the yacht’s emergency radio beacon three days later, on Tuesday afternoon, after their yacht “rolled” during a heavy swell and high winds.
“Barbara and I were waiting after the boat turned upside down, holding each other, thinking for a split second that seemed to last for an eternity, ‘is she going to turn upright?'” Mr Dwyer told reporters in Sydney.
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