1.   After announcing the decision Tuesday, syndicate chief executive officer Glenn Bourke said the yacht that illbruck had planned to race was about three-quarters finished.

2.   He said the yacht, in northern Bass Strait, had been dismasted, had lost part of its cabin and was taking water.

3.   Speaking in broken English, Dinelli said his yacht Algimouss sank just after he climbed aboard a life raft dropped by a rescue plane.

4.   The last the Tui heard was a message from the patrol saying the yacht was within the exclusion zone and ordering it to stop and submit to boarding.