A New Zealander rescued from a stricken yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has been left penniless after thieves stripped her vessel when it washed up in Australia.
Tania Davies and her Welsh partner Steve Jones suffered head wounds when they were knocked unconscious after being knocked around in a storm during the trip from Tonga to New Zealand.
A cargo ship winched them off their 11.6m yacht Windigo in November, after the Windigo began taking on water in a gale and 10m seas.
"We were taken to New Zealand by the New Zealand navy and we had just started to get pieces of our life together when we got the phone call," Davies said.
The couple were notified by Australian authorities the yacht had washed up on a beach in a national park near Coffs Harbour.