Trimaran unsalvageable after hitting rocks - VMR deny help

8:46 PM Fri 29 Apr 2011 GMT

'Fremantle Dokta still afloat - photo Tenille De Brueys' .

Once again the scope of Australian rescue authorities to assist yachts in trouble after their crew have abandoned them was called into question by a leisure sailor who lost his trimaran to rocks and waves last week. Dr Chris Murcutt lost his $20,000 trimaran after it sank off the Mackay Harbour last week after it sprang a leak and couldn't be returned to the Mackay marina. What was meant to be a relaxing day on the water, turned into a disaster for Dr Chris Murcutt, who had spent the afternoon sailing outside the Mackay Harbour on his trimaran, the Fremantle ...

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by Melissa Woods, Daily Mercury/Sail-World

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