Grave concerns for sailor adrift on a life raft south of Tasmania as rescue described as a 'very big if'

By Ian Lloyd Neubauer
Updated January 19 2013 - 1:08pm, first published 1:04pm

A lone French yachtsman adrift in a life raft south of Tasmania is facing 7 metre swells and winds of up to 75 kilometres an hour in a rescue described as a "very big if" by the captain of the vessel tasked to save him.

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