Crew of capsized yacht couldn’t get to lifesaving gear

Crew aboard one of the world’s top ocean-racing yachts could not access lifesaving equipment or emergency communications after the €18m boat capsized off the Cork coast last year.

Sixteen of the crew scrambled onto the upturned hull of Rambler 100 but five others, including a woman with hypothermia, ended up in waters about eight nautical miles off the Fastnet Rock.

The rapidity of the yacht’s total inversion took all of the 21 crew by surprise, an investigation shows.