1.   The yacht lost its keel, the ballasted section of the yacht that keeps it upright.

2.   Even so, there was considerable jostling at the starting line, and one yacht lost a mast.

3.   The yacht had lost its mast and the country of registration of the vessel -- earlier described by police as a cargo ship -- was not immediately known.

4.   The black-hulled German yacht had lost its towering carbon fibre mast in its first training run on Sydney Harbour.