Sydney Hobart Deaths 2025 Nc. Two experienced sailors were killed in similar but separate incidents in the sydney to hobart yacht race, organisers and local authorities said on friday, the first loss of life in the prestigious ocean race since 1998. Two sailors died in separate boom accidents during the first night of the annual sydney to hobart yacht race, marking the event's first fatalities in 26 years.

The 1998 race saw 115 yachts set out from sydney harbour, but only 44 made it. Organizers said that two sydney to hobart sailors have died at sea amid wild.