Here’s a close-up of the vessel’s bow:

look this happened on Dec 2007

A dramatic five-day rescue operation finally came to an end after South African boat Ocean 7 Adventurer towed the dismasted yacht Delta Dore into Table Bay harbour on Tuesday.

The rescue, said to be the longest maritime tow achieved in SA history, successfully hauled the white-and-green striped 68 foot yacht and two crew members to safety at about midday on Tuesday.

The team leader of the Ocean 7 Adventurer, David De Villiers, said they had been 850 nautical miles out in the Southern Ocean, possibly the "most hostile ocean on earth".

"We accepted the challenge despite the tricky sea conditions," De Villiers said. "The (Ocean 7) Adventurer was built to go anywhere in the world and this boat is the real hero of the story."

A 200-metre tow rope was used in the rescue.

On board the Delta Dore, French captain Jeromie Beyou and fellow sailor Sidney Gavignet screamed and waved in jubilation as they realised they were nearing land.

"Welcome to Cape Town," Bruce Tedder, of Ocean 7, the company that operates the Adventure, said on board the speedboat carrying a media contingent.

"It was an awesome feat of seamanship," Tedder said.

The rescuers on board the Ocean 7 Adventurer did an "impeccable" job in locating and bringing the yacht and the yachtsmen safely to shore, Tedder added.

A team of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) also assisted in the rescue.

At the harbour, Beyou told the Cape Argus it was a "big disappointment" that they were now out of the Barcelona World Race because he had worked hard for more than a year to compete in it.

"I still do not know what went wrong. Racing hard and strain on the mast caused it to fail I presume," he said.

The duo will head back to France in time for Christmas and will build a new mast and participate in the next around-the-world race in November Beyou said.

Delta Dore is the third yacht to have fallen out of the Barcelona World Race and is berthed alongside the two other damaged yachts in the harbour.

Damage to the rudder of the Estrella Dam and a broken mast of the PRB also caused their withdrawal from the event.

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