What are the details ofthe missing French yacht found near the Azores?
French yacht found adrift off the Azores with no sign of its two-man crew There was just a light breeze by the time the Belgian yacht Genesis spotted the white-hulled sailboat adrift in the middle of the Atlantic. The drifting boat, a French vessel named L’Actuel, was upright, the mainsail still on the mast. The headsail was torn and partly furled. Lines trailed in the water. There was no one aboard, and the satellite phone and survival gear had been left behind. The discovery of the empty yacht on Sunday, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest landfall, deepened the mystery about the fate of its crew, two French sailing enthusiasts. “There was no signs of anybody on board. … Anything could have happened,” said Jeri Grychowski, a spokeswoman for the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax. Search operations will continue, said a duty officer at the Gris-Nez Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre in France. The skipper, a veteran regatta racer named Gaétan de la Goublaye, 62, had
