Two people on separate yachts have died during the Sydney to Hobart race overnight.At about 11.50pm, police were told a crew member on board a yacht had been struck by a sail boom.Crew members performed CPR but the injured person did not survive.

Two people on separate yachts participating in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race have died after they were each struck by a sail boom on the NSW coast.The first participant was on the Flying Fish Arctos and died just before midnight.

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The annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, which starts on Thursday, takes sailors on a 628-nautical mile race that exits Sydney Harbor and plunges south along the New South Wales coastline before crossing Bass Strait, rounding Tasman Island, crossing Tasmania’s Storm Bay and pushing up the River Derwent to Hobart.

Crews of more than 100 yachts set sail Thursday on a "boat-breaking" Sydney-Hobart yacht race, with gale-force winds and high seas forecast for the gruelling bluewater classic.

More than 100 yachts have set sail in the annual Sydney to Hobart race. They’re expected to face wild weather, including gale-force winds and waves of up to three and a half metres. Reporter Elinya Chenery is at Watsons Bay in Sydney.