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Yacht Blessed Be inquest - muddled name delayed search



10:22 PM Mon 26 Jul 2010 GMT
'Bruce Nicholas Glasson, 58, and Graeme Eric Woodhouse, 60 - lost at sea' .
Two experienced sailors had been dead for up to 12 days by the time a search party was sent to find them, after a radio operator muddled up similar-sounding yacht names, a coroner has found. Sailing friends Bruce Nicholas Glasson, 58, and Graeme Eric Woodhouse, 60, went missing on Mr Glasson's 42ft yacht Blessed Be, in the South Pacific Ocean somewhere off the coast of northern NSW and southern Queensland in August 2008. Neither the yacht nor the men have ever been found. The widow of Graeme Woodhouse says she is disappointed with the outcome of an inquest into the
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by Nancy Knudsen



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