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topic posted Mon, March 17, 2008 - 9:55 PM by  C
From the Chronicle:

A sailing race from the San Francisco Bay into the open sea turned
deadly this weekend when two Marin County sailors and their boat
vanished in heavy swells.

One of the men's bodies washed up Sunday morning, while the other
remains missing.

The race from the Golden Gate Yacht Club in San Francisco to a buoy
about 12 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, began Saturday on a
clear winter morning marked by 12- to 16-foot swells and high winds,
authorities said. But when the three dozen competing boats finally
struggled back to port at the end of the day, the 32-foot Daisy was
missing.

The first clues to what might have happened emerged at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday when officials retrieved debris from the boat about 5 miles
west of the Golden Gate Bridge. And then, an hour later, the body of
one of the missing sailors, Anthony John Harrow, 72, of Larkspur, was
pulled out of the water at Moss Beach in San Mateo County, officials
said.

The other sailor, and owner of the boat, 68-year-old Matthew Kirby
Gale, has not been found. The Coast Guard suspended the search for
Gale on Sunday night.

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