They jokingly call themselves Team Zimmer Frame, “but we’re pretty fit”, Tardrew adds. Rod Gunther, left, and Peter Tardrew after finishing last year’s Melbourne to Hobart yacht race.

David Petty, 59, from Bradford, has been reported missing. He is described as having brown hair, medium build wearing a brown leather jacket, black jacket underneath, black joggers and uses a red ...

Peter Tardrew was midway through the 2003 Melbourne Osaka Cup yacht race when a storm broke out and lightning started hitting the water metres away. “It was terrifying,” he says. There was ...