Yachting: Extra precaution for Olympic yachts

By SUZANNE McFADDEN

New Zealand's Olympic yachties are taking extra precautions to make sure their boats are not washed away on the trip across the Tasman.

After reports of luxury boats and giant paper rolls being washed off container ships in recent weeks, Yachting New Zealand have changed their plans on getting their craft to Sydney.

Most of the team's yachts will be packed in a container today, to be stowed inside the ship, but originally they were to have been lashed to the deck on their trailers.

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