had to hand steer -- due to rudder damage caused by the broken mast -- for the entire 20 to 24 hours back to port. She said in her online journal on Thursday: "It has been 30 hours since Aviva was ...

causing the ship to sink rapidly after the weight of the mast took the hull beyond the 'down-flooding angle', according to a yacht industry source. A local fisherman told reporters he saw a ...

Other potential salvage plans, which involved turning the 55.9-metre yacht, which weighs 534 tonnes, almost 90 degrees on the seabed without dismantling its mast, were rejected because of the ...