Popular yachtsman drowned after fall while boarding his son’s boat on Liffey
A former chairman of a yacht club in Dublin drowned after falling into the water on the River Liffey while trying to get onto a boat after a social event last year.
An inquest heard the body of John Wedick, 78, – a well-known figure in sailing circles and a senior member of the Poolbeg Yacht & Boat Club – was found floating in the water at the club’s marina on the morning of November 19, 2023.
The widower and father of five of Camolin, Co. Wexford, who had been commodore of the club on several occasions, had attended a social function to mark its 50th anniversary on the previous evening.
The deceased’s son, John Wedick Jr, who gave evidence of formally identifying his father’s body to gardaí, told the coroner at Dublin District Coroner’s Court, Clare Keane, that his father was in good health and spirits when he last saw him, which was the day before his death.
He described how his father was looking forward to the event at the yacht club on Pigeon House Road, Ringsend as the celebrations had been delayed for a number of years due to the pandemic. Mr Wedick said the deceased would have known the area around the marina and the yacht club well and he had also grown up in the area. In reply to a question from the coroner, he said the area around the marina was ‘relatively well lit’.
The inquest heard that Mr Wedick was due to stay the night on board his son’s boat which was moored at the club’s marina. The deceased’s son said he understood that his father slipped while getting into the boat and fell in the water.
He confirmed to Dr Keane that his father was able to swim.
In a written statement, a bar manager at the yacht club said Mr Wedick had attended a private members’ function in the clubhouse and was ‘in great form’ and did not appear in any way upset or distressed when leaving the event some time after 1am.
Garda Paul Fay of Donnybrook Garda Station, gave evidence of being alerted to the discovery of a body at the Poolbeg Yacht & Boat Club’s marina at around 9am on November 19, 2023.
Garda Fay said he saw a body laying face down in the water between a pontoon and rocks when he arrived at the scene.
He also recalled noticing a large cut on the victim’s forehead.
The inquest heard the victim’s body was recovered from the water by Dublin Fire Brigade personnel and brought ashore at the Jeanie Johnston marina where Mr Wedick was formally pronounced dead at 9.27am.
Garda Fay said CCTV footage from the yacht club had showed him going through a gate that led to a pontoon in the marina before going to his son’s boat. He described how the footage did not show Mr Wedick falling into the river but that his body was visible in the water afterwards.
Garda Fay said the victim looked fine as he was walking to the boat and did not look unsteady on his feet.
He also confirmed that the weather was dry at the time.
The deceased’s son pointed out that his father would generally wear sailing shoes when he was in the marina but was wearing dress shoes on the night because he was attending a black-tie event.
‘I’m not sure what grip they had,’ he observed.
Although two other people had gone into the marina around the same time, Garda Fay said they had gone in a different direction and he was satisfied there was no third party involvement in Mr Wedick’s death.
‘It just looks like a tragic accident,’ the garda remarked.
Dr Keane said postmortem results showed he had sustained some abrasions on his scalp but it had not been possible to determine how they had been caused.
The coroner said there was some evidence of chronic heart disease but she did not regard it as a contributory factor in his death. Dr Keane said Mr Wedick had mild alcohol intoxication but the levels were ‘certainly not at the high end’.
Returning a verdict of accidental death, she said the deceased had died as a result of drowning.
She offered her condolences to members of Mr Wedick’s family who attended the inquest and acknowledged how traumatising such an ‘out of the blue and unexpected death’ was for them.
Mr Wedick, who was known as ‘Johnny’, was also a founding member of the Dublin Bay Old
Gaffers Club and was involved in the restoration of a 50-foot fishing vessel, The Bracan Lass.
His love affair with sailing was formed in his youth where he grew up in his grandmother’s house in Ringsend and he joined the local sea scouts at the age of 10. A former chef who set up his own wholesale meat distribution business, Mr Wedick moved from his home in Artane to Wexford in his retirement but remained actively involved in the Ringsend club until his death.
GOING ONE-ON-ONE WITH THE LONELY SEA : 25 Daring Sailors Will Attempt to Go Around the World--Single-Handedly
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There are 25 sailboats from 10 nations and 5 continents rafted together here at the Goat Island Marina dock, awaiting the start of today’s BOC Challenge, the world’s longest race.
It’s a single-handed race around the world--one man aboard each boat.
The United States leads the list with eight boats, followed by France with six, two each for Australia, Finland and South Africa, and one each from Great Britain, Brazil, Canada, Japan and New Zealand.
This is the second running of the epic event. In 1982-83, 17 boats started and 10 returned here nine months later. Three boats were lost and four dropped out with equipment problems.
Philippe Jeantot of France won the race in his 56-foot cutter, Credit Agricole. Jeantot, 35, is back with a new 60-foot yacht, Credit Agricole III.
His 159-day circumnavigation set a solo sailing record in the first Challenge but his success in that race may be his undoing in this one.
The best solo sailors in the world have studied his boat and tactics. They have gone to the drafting board with their designers and come up with a dozen challengers that are “awesome,” the big cliche on the dock here these days.
“Any one of 10 boats can win this race,” said Bertie Reed, 41, of South Africa, who is back with a 60-footer after placing second in the first race.
The race will be run in two classes. Class I is for boats from 50 to 60 feet in length. Class II is for boats 40 to 50 feet. There are 11 boats in Class I and 14 in Class II.
The winning time in Class I is expected to be 150 sailing days, exclusive of time spent in the three stopovers, Cape Town, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro. It should take the Class II winner 170 days. All the boats that finish will be back here by early May 1987.
The race is also an adventure that has attracted a number of entrants who have no hope of winning. They either lack the experience or their boats simply do not have the speed.
These are the men who are using the race to fulfill the sailor’s dream of circumnavigating the world.
In fact, David White, 41, of St. Petersburg, Fla., who conceived the idea of the race 10 years ago, said: “I’ve been accused of starting this thing as an excuse to sail around Cape Horn.”
Cape Horn is the Everest of sailing, the magic milestone.
In the first race, Dick McBride, 42, of New Zealand, called rounding the Horn at the tip of South America the high point of his life.
A few days later he experienced the low point--running aground in the Falkland Islands. McBride, too, is back with the 60-foot Neptune Express, and blood in his eye.
Reed anchored near the Horn to take on water from a Chilean naval vessel. Francis Stokes, then 56, of Moorestown, N.J., took a self-portrait of himself off the Horn. There’s his face, haggard but happy.
Guy Bernardin, 41, of France, almost hit an island, Cape West, very close to the Horn. He came up on deck of his 38-footer just in time to avert disaster.
Recovered from his near miss, Bernardin said: “Passing the Horn was the best day of my life. It was like waiting for Christmas so you could open your presents.”
Pretty special stuff, perhaps. It means little if you haven’t been reading sailing books since you were 12 and dreaming small boats and big oceans most of your life.
But this time the heavy hitters are in, and if they have any romance in their bones it doesn’t show.
White charges down the dock with his perpetual frown. Big, bearded, looking like a Viking about to hit an English beach, he is out to reverse four years of rotten sailing luck and show ‘em what Legend Securities, the former Gladiator, can do.
Gladiator was forced out of the first race with gear and structural problems and was holed by a buoy going to the start of the 1984 solo transatlantic race.
Warren Luhrs, a 41-year-old sailboat manufacturer from Florida, tinkers with his 60-foot Thursday’s Child. He knows the boat inside and out. He built it and set a solo transatlantic record in it. Observers cluck at its cockpit, open to the ocean astern. They wonder if it is safe. And they wonder about Thursday’s Child’s weight, at 10 tons the lightest 60-footer entered.
But none of the big boats is really heavy. They average about 12 tons. By contrast, an America’s Cup 12-meter boat that’s only going to circumnavigate buoys in Perth harbor, weighs twice that much for about the same length.
Three skippers and their boats stand out in Class II.
The first and a favorite of many to win in class is Jacques de Roux. It’s not a race anymore for the Frenchman, a former nuclear submarine officer. It’s a mission.
Leading his class in the first race, he was dismasted in the Pacific, lost his boat, Skoiern III, and almost lost his life. He’s back now with the 50-foot Skoiern V.
De Roux, 50, is quiet, possibly because his English isn’t that good. He spends a lot of time at his chart table, studying the route and waiting for the start.
In contrast to the pandemonium of preparation around him, De Roux is ready. He’s a sailing machine. Plug him in and he goes.
Richard Konkolski, 42, a defector from his native Czechoslovakia, provides verbal excitement. He always had a near-miss disaster to chronicle to the fleet by radio during the first race.
Once he said he had nearly been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide. There was a hole in the exhaust of his portable gasoline generator, used to recharge batteries. Luckily, he said, it ran out of gas before he, unconscious, had inhaled too much of the deadly vapor.
Another time he reported heaving to in the Falkland Islands to repair a broken headstay, which could cost a mast. Later he told of discovering that he had been dragging two fishing nets for hours off the Brazilian coast. “I couldn’t understand why I was going so slow,” he said.
It’s easy to laugh at Konkolski’s exuberance. However, competitors who fail to take him seriously do so at their own risk. No entrant is more experienced, determined or better able to turn adversity to advantage.
His drawback is his 44-foot boat, formerly Nike III and now called Declaration of Independence. It’s design is dated and at 15 tons it is heavy.
Mark Schrader, 39, aboard his Valiant 47 Lone Star--it was built in Texas--is the third contestant to watch in Class II. In 1982-83, although not in the BOC race, he circumnavigated alone in 199 days, Seattle to Seattle, in his 40-foot Valiant Resourceful. Schrader has the experience and the boat to win in class.
Veterans of the first BOC agree that the hardest part of the race is getting to the starting line.
In all, 57 sailors, two of them women, put up $500 apiece to be listed as provisional entrants this time.
Some backed out because of lack of commitment. One or two stared at a chart of the world, saw all that water and lost their nerve.
But most gave up because of a lack of money or the time it takes away from business and family. This isn’t a hike through the Rockies with a nylon knapsack full of freeze-dried. Or a bike trip through Europe.
The cost includes a $350,000 boat, at least two years out of a life and a very anxious spouse for those who have one, or are able to keep one.
Sponsorship is the answer but it is hard to come by. Sponsors want winners. Consequently, all 11 boats in Class I--the fast class--are sponsored, but only three boats in Class II are.
The French have the best luck in finding sponsorship because the French media give solo sailing heavy coverage.
“That’s because the French will put anything on Page 1 that they can beat the British at,” one race observer said. Hence, Philippe Jeantot is a national hero.
When it came time for coming up with the rest of the entry fee--$2,000 for unsponsored boats, $4,500 for sponsored, except that BOC repeaters got in at half price--the entry list shrank to 35 boats. And the women were out.
The last woman to go was Claire Marty, 30, a Paris nurse, who had a boat but no more money. She sold the boat to John Biddlecombe, 41, of Australia after he wrecked his 60-footer on a Tonga reef while on his 2,000-mile qualifying sail.
Besides Biddlecombe’s reef disaster, there were other pre-start problems.
Hal Roth, 58, of Mount Dorset, Me., an author of half a dozen books on cruising, was in Fort Lauderdale getting ready for his qualifying sail to the Azores when he got word that Florida tax collectors wanted to impose a heavy levy on his boat on the ground that it had been manufactured there.
Roth contended that the boat had been built in Santa Cruz, Calif., and was merely in transit, but he didn’t wait to argue the point. He jumped aboard his 50-foot American Flag and set sail, just ahead of the tax man.
Michael Plant, 34, of Jamestown, R.I., sailed into the Azores aboard his red, 50-foot Airco Distributor and was promptly arrested in a murder investigation.
It seems a crazed sailor had killed someone before Plant’s arrival and escaped aboard a red boat. Plant spent more than five weeks in jail before that got straightened out.
While he was doing his qualifying sail, Mark Schrader found himself in a gale off Cape Hatteras with a U.S. Navy ship hovering nearby, determined to rescue him. Schrader assured the Navy skipper that although it was a little bumpy in the 45-knot blow, he was in no danger.
It turned out that the Navy was responding to an SOS from another sailboat that had lost its steering and was in grave danger. That crew was later found and rescued.
Safety is an obsession with racers and race committee alike. The rules contain a lengthy list of requirements governing vessel soundness and equipment.
The boats have automatically inflatable life rafts, emergency radio beacons, VHF radios in waterproof containers, survival suits, strobe lights, emergency rations and water. All are for use in the event the boat has to be abandoned--the sailor’s absolute last resort.
The rule is you don’t leave the boat until water is up to your chin. Boats are far easier to spot at sea than life rafts.
Each racer will have a satellite tracking device on board. Called Argos, the French-run system will track all the boats and report their positions daily. The Argos transponder has an emergency signal that can be activated. It saved Jacques de Roux’s life in the first race.
The boats also have two watertight bulkheads to keep them afloat if they are holed. The BOC race is the only offshore sailing event that requires such bulkheads.
If the first race is a guide, as many as 10 boats won’t make it back to Newport. Some will be lost. Some will withdraw. But again, it is fervently hoped, no lives will be lost.
Says Jeantot: “The ocean is a giant stadium where everyone duels with invisible competitors.
“This is a race against yourself. You may not have the fastest boat, but if you do the best you can, for yourself, then you have done all you can.”
Robin Knox-Johnston, the race chairman and the first person to sail around the world alone and nonstop, puts it simply: “To finish is to win.”
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On this day – 21 november. a newspaper history of sailing.
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The Rio Race in 1971 struck a chord with so many people around the world that there were many heartbreaking stories about those whose lifetime dreams were about to be shattered. “Yacht stranded – no sponsor” said the headline.
John Martin is in the news today several times as in 1985 he joined Padda Kuttel for the second leg of the Whitbread Race, and in 1990 he signed up for the Globe Challenge.
BOC Challenge competitor John Biddlecombe was rescue in the Atlantic by an SA Navy Minesweeper.
‘Silk Cut’ set a new 24-hour record in the Whitbread Race with a distance of 448,9nm.
Tessa Wentzel from Mitchells Plain was out to prove that yachting was not just for rich men with white trousers and a gin & tonic in hand.
1970. “Yacht Stranded – No Sponsor”. Because her sponsor has gone insolvent, one of the biggest and most revolutionary yachts entered in the Cape-to-Rio race in January, the ferro-cement ketch, ‘Petralis’, has been stranded at a port on the south coast of England. To read the full report, Click on the following LINK: 1970 11 21 328_Redacted
1985. “John Martin in Kuttel’s Crew”. John Martin, one of South Africa’s top yacht racing skippers, has joined the international crew of the maxi ‘Portatan’, which with a new mast fitted in Cape Town will start as a hot favourite for line honours in the second (“Roaring Forties”) leg of the Whitbread Round-the-World Race. To read the full report, Click on the following LINK: 1985 11 21 844
1986. “Yacht Skipper Rescued in High Atlantic Seas”. John Biddlecombe, skipper of the R2-million yacht ‘ACI Crusader’, arrived in Cape Town today a weary and disappointed man after being rescued in the Atlantic. To read the full report, Click on the following LINK: 1986 11 21 588
1997. “Silk Cut Races to 24-hour Record Despite Storm”. British yacht ‘Silk Cut’, skippered by Lawrie Smith, has set a new world record for distance travelled in 24 hours by a monohull sailing boat, covering 448,9 nautical miles while competing in the Whitbread Round-the-World race. To read the full report, Click on the following LINK: 1997 11 21 272
2001. “Vrou wil talle betrek by seilvaartskool”. ‘n Jong vrou van Mitchells Plain is vasbeslote om te bewys dat seiljagvaart nie net vir ryk mans met wit broeke en ‘n jenewer-en-tonikum in die hand is nie. ( TRANSLATION : “Woman Wants to Get Many Involved in Sailing School”. A young woman of Mitchell’s Plain is determined to prove that yachting is not just for rich men with white trousers and a gin-and-tonic in hand). To read the full report, Click on the following LINK: 2001 11 21 345_Redacted
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If you mean the John Biddlecombe designed and built 34 - a tad hard to find. Here are some links which may give details you are after oceanayacht.com/print.php?id=1276836711 See page 14 here www.mhyc.com.au/images/stories/compase%20rose/Compass_Rose_Oct_14_A4.pdf Note that there was also the US Irwin Citation 34 sailboatdata.com/sailboat/irwin-34-citation Seeing as you are on this site assume you mean Biddlecombe's boat.
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Lieutenant (later Commander) John Biddlecombe , A China and Boer War Veteran.  In July 1900 both Victoria and New South Wales decided to send naval brigades to China to support the international effort in lifting the siege of the Peking legations and suppressing the Boxer Rebellion. Lieutenant Biddlecombe was selected as one of the Victorian officers in the contingent. It is not clear, but he was possibly associated with the 14 pounder QF guns taken by the Victorians. Most of the contingent's responsibilities involved land operations in particular internal security duties. Returning to Australia in May 1901 on the SS Chingtu, Biddlecombe sought leave from the Navy to serve in South Africa. He left some time in August 1901; possibly on the SS Britannic in mid August. In South Africa he became attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards and undertook four months of operations with that unit. Whilst attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards he qualified for the Queen's South Africa metal with a clasp South Africa 1901 and Transvaal. His unit operated in a column under the command of Col Edmund Allenby. In September 1901 this column began a sweep under the command of General Plumer into the most eastern corners of the Transvaal, thence up to the high veldt about Standerton, where Allenby's column was when the news of Benson's disaster on 30 October came to hand. The column then strengthened by some Australians and the 18th and 19th Hussars set out after the Boers and after much chasing inflicted a good deal of loss. He departed South Africa 11 December 1901 on the SS Fortunatus. He retired from full-time duty with the Commonwealth naval forces with the rank of commander to devote his time to his pastoral property 'Golf Hill' near Geelong in February 1904. Although he had apparently retired from full-time duty it seems apparent that he had maintained service as a reservist from then on. The Argus reported in 1908 that Biddlecombe was involved in supervising torpedo boat practice over five days at Swan Island in Port Phillip Bay involving 85 sailors and for torpedo boats. He was a contributor to the naval debate in Australia. In 1897 he had published a book entitled 'Interdependence of the Empire in regard to Naval Defence'. (published by George Robertson in Melbourne). In 1903 he published another work entitled 'Independence of the Navy'. It was claimed that this book was significant in influencing public opinion for increasing that the strength and independence of the RAN. His comments were reported widely in the press in Australia and New Zealand as he advocated an independent navy. "the cost of making an essentially Australian Navy would not exceed the proposed subsidy and existing local expenditure combined" (quoted in the press 25 of April 1903) He seems to have had significant involvement with the Victorian branch of the Royal Humane Society In August and September 1914 he served his country in an honorary capacity on the staff of the transport branch of the Navy office organising troop transport from Australia. He died on 11 April 1929 and was buried at Geelong
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IMOCA-Open 60s - where are they now?We list all the boats built Following on from our equivalent article on the Whitbread/Volvo Ocean Race boats , so today we publish our chronology of all the Open 60/IMOCA 60s that have ever been built (to our knowledge). Readers are welcome to add their contributions and sighting by emailling us here . While Warren Luhr's ground breaking Thursday's Child is generally held up as being the 'first Open 60', It could be argued that Philippe Jeantot's first Credit Agricole , winner of the inaugural BOC Challenge in 1983 was the boat that started the trend in bespoke 60ish footers for singlehanded offshore racing, particularly those with movable ballast, initially in the form of water, then canting keels, the first 60 to have one being Isabelle Autissier's briefly very successful Ecureuil Poitou Charentes (that demolished the opposition on leg one of the 1995 BOC). Although obviously there were boats before designed and built for solo offshore racing, dating all the way back to Eric Tabarly's 1964 OSTAR winning Pen Duick II , it was only in the 1980s with the 60ft length limited imposed for boats in the OSTAR and subsequently the second BOC Challenge in 1986-7, that the 60ft size range was finally settled upon. For the 1986-7 BOC Challenge more rules were added beyond just mere overall length, in the form of mandatory watertight bulkheads. Perhaps most significant was the introduction of the famous 10 degree rule to limit the amount of moveable ballast carried (a boat must heel by no more than this at the dock with all her movable ballast deployed either side). This latter rule was unquestionably the most type-forming, leading the surfboard-shaped, twin rudder ultra-sleds that the Open 60 and then the IMOCA 60 has since become. Perhaps appropriately the Open 60 became the IMOCA 60 as more rules were introduced in the 1990s following an embarrassing spate of boats capsizing and remaining inverted (thanks to their surfboard shape), particularly during the 1996 Vendee Globe, when Jerry Roufs was lost in the Pacific aboard his Groupe LG (later found upside down off Chile) and subsequently in the 1998-9 Bwhen Giovanni Soldini famously rescued Isabelle Autissier from the upturned hull of PRB mid-Pacific.  After this, the fledgling IMOCA class implimented some severe stability requirements beyond the mere 10deg rule (that some argued had caused the problem from the outset), including a minimum Angle of Vanishing stability requirement. Skippers also had to prove that they could right the boat from a full inversion without the rig, hence why IMOCA 60s from this period on sprouted cabintops. It also signalling the death knell for water ballast being used as the sole means of providing lateral stability in favour of canting keels. Although modern IMOCA 60s still carry vast quantities of water ballast, today this is primarily used for altering displacement to suit conditions and for fore and aft trim. The rules have continued to develop and in recent years cost saving measures have been introduced limiting draft, mast height, number of sails, carried, etc. Unfortunately these new rules have largely failed to prevent the inevitable escalation of costs and as a result the IMOCA class is now seriously contemplating turning the sailing world's only remaining big boat offshore development class into a one design. We've included boats whenever they've taken part in their first round the world race. If we've missed any or got anything wrong, let us know... Clicking on some of the boat names brings up photos of them...
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LAUNCH YEAR: 1989 BEAM: 2.84 M DRAFT: 1.5 M DISPLACEMENT: 4.536 T CRUISING SPEED: 5 - 6 Knts DESIGNER: John Biddlecombe BUILDER: Manitou Yachts REGISTRATION NO: WI281Q AUST REGO: No HULL NO: AUAEA0015QTS
She sold the boat to John Biddlecombe, 41, of Australia after he wrecked his 60-footer on a Tonga reef while on his 2,000-mile qualifying sail.
Gusto, the unusual looking Open 60 designed and raced by Australian John Biddlecombe in single-handed events from 2000 onwards, but now owned and skippered by Brian Pattinson and his double-handed partner Patrick Giudice, finished 24th on line and 15th overall in the PHS class.
While confident about the accuracy we cannot Guarantee or Warrant it but will assist any prospective purchaser verify this as part of the purchase process. Region Tasmania Location Margate TAS Reference Larseric160424 Year 1985 approximate Designer John Biddlecombe Builder Manitou Yachts NSW Length 31' 9" - 9.68m Beam 2.84m Draft 1.52m ...
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John Biddlecombe was born 1 November 1868 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. He was appointed a midshipman in the Royal Navy Reserve in 1884. He served in the Royal Navy for 12 months as a midshipman before becoming a Merchant Marine officer on the 'Cluny Castle' (a sailing ship). By the 1890s he had migrated to Victoria and if every 1894 was ...
She started sailing with other single handers - Brian Caldwell, who was formerly the youngest American round-world solo sailor, and with Australian John Biddlecombe.
Velux 5 Oceans Race. The Velux 5 Oceans Race was a round-the-world single-handed yacht race, sailed in stages, managed by Clipper Ventures since 2000. Its most recent name comes from its main sponsor Velux. Originally known as the BOC Challenge, for the title sponsor BOC, the first edition was in 1982. In the late 1990s the race was renamed the ...
Renowned for their offshore capability, strong build, and private aft cabin, its little wonder why the Manitou 32 remains such a highly sought after cruiser. Easily sailed by a novice, they suit anyone from a first yacht buyer, through to the experienced sailor wanting to fulfil their most ambitious cruising aspirations.
John BIDDLECOMBE, Picture from Internet, 2001 Avril, en route pour Saint Malo. Doit amener le bateau en Europe et espére participer à Around Alone 2002 LIBERTY 2002 2 January, Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Race: ?e/?? Around Alone 2002: inscrit, DNS. John BIDDLECOMBE
Manitou 32 Centre Cockpit Stern Modified To 30. INVENTORY MAKE: Manitou MODEL: 32, Modified stern to 30 Gives rear access + stowed boarding ladder HULL MATERIAL: GPR ...Find out more
It also signalling the death knell for water ballast being used as the sole means of providing lateral stability in favour of canting keels. Although modern IMOCA 60s still carry vast quantities of water ballast, today this is primarily used for altering displacement to suit conditions and for fore and aft trim.
Other fatalities: 4. Total fatalities: 178. Circumstances: Following an uneventful flight from Krasnodar, the crew started the approach to Omsk Airport in a reduced visibility due to the night and rain falls. The aircraft landed at a speed of 270 km/h and about one second later, the captain noticed the presence of vehicles on the runway.
Omsk is a city in Russia in the Siberia region, capital of Omsk Oblast. As of the census in 2010, Omsk had been declared one of the cities in Russia with over 1 million people. Omsk is close to the border of Kazakhstan. Omsk is the only city in the world which has Metro with only one station. [source?]
Circumstances: While descending to Omsk Airport, the crew encountered poor weather conditions and low visibility due to snow showers. On final, as he was unable to locate the runway, the captain abandoned the approach and initiated a go-around. Three other attempts to land were abandoned within the next minutes.
1918 - Akmolinsk Region is renamed into Omsk Region. 1920 - Omsk Region reformed into Omsk Governorship. 1934 - Omsk Region reorganized within the vast boundaries of the former Tobol'sk Governorship. 1934 - Omsk Region boundaries deliniated anew ( present boundaries) 1973 - Omsk City received a Soviet coat of Arms.