Will Oxley

I'm in the middle of Bass Strait.

And so he managed to surf back to the back of the boat and get his arm around one of the ropes that was there.

So when the boat came upright.

He clambered back on deck and he just turned around.

As soon as he got on board and he started, the mast had broken when, and we presume that happened when the boat came back upright and he just turned around and started undoing things to get ready to deal with the mast.

Not even, and meanwhile, I was down below and when we flipped back upright, all the sails had landed on everyone.

And I turned around, I could just see some legs and Linda Axe, one of our crews, she, she had got her head stuck underneath the stove.

And so I dragged her legs out and she, because the stove, it was all underwater as well.

And so then dragged her out and she popped up and her blonde hair was covered in blood because she cut it.

So I was, I remember dealing with that while the other guys were dealing with the cutting the mast away.

So two very lucky people.

No, it's not a common experience.

And as a result of the 1998 Hobart, the angle of vanish instability, which is the degree to which a boat can go over before it becomes unstable, has been dramatically increased.

So it's something like 130 degrees now.

I think back then it might have been 112 degrees.

And what that means is where previously a boat that

gets knocked over to 112 degrees.

So obviously the mass below the water.

If it goes beyond that, then it will continue, whereas now the angle of vanishing stability is much greater, so the boats pop back upright.

There were a huge number of changes made as a result of that 1998 Sydney Hobart.