SYDNEY: Australian authorities were Saturday coordinating a rescue operation for a French yachtsman who had abandoned his boat and was drifting in a life raft hundreds of nautical miles off Tasmania.
A cruise ship is on its way to the man, who was forced to leave his yacht after it lost its mast and sustained damage to the hull in rough weather, but is not expected to reach him until Sunday.
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