Luck was on sailor’s side

A DARK night with a little more wind and veteran Australian skipper David Witt says young sailor Alex Gough might not be alive to tell the tale of being washed overboard in the Volvo round the world race.

Gough was at the centre of a dramatic “man overboard” in the Melbourne-to-Hong Kong leg of the race yesterday when he went over the side of Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag.

The experienced Witt managed to retrieve Gough some seven minutes after falling overboard.