A 21-metre yacht that was intended to race in the Sydney to Hobart is “under arrest” and welded to the dock at Rushcutters Bay marina, after the Polish sailing crew who had chartered it launched legal proceedings against its owner in the Federal Court.
The crew from Yacht Club Sopot, in northern Poland, had its race dream dashed just days out from the annual Boxing Day race, when it learned the yacht it had chartered was not fit to sail because the vessel’s supposed insurance policy did not exist.
On Wednesday, the Kosatka Monster Project was scheduled to set off as one of 86 yachts in the Sydney to Hobart, a race it describes on its website as “hard to resist,” with “an allure that sailors dream of.”
Instead the yacht is welded to the dock at the eastern suburbs marina, where it is under arrest and bearing a Federal Court notice, stating that “access to the ship without permission of the Admiralty Marshal of the Federal Court of Australia is prohibited and may constitute a criminal offence.”
Read on, courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald.
