Overview

• Officers responded about 5:45pm Sunday after a welfare concern for a person aboard a vessel at Little Sirius Point near Cremorne Point.
• The man, believed to be in his 60s, was located deceased on a luxury two‑masted sailboat docked by the wharf.
• Early inquiries indicate he may have been overcome by engine and fuel‑burning appliance fumes while working on the boat.
• Water police, multiple ambulance crews and Fire and Rescue NSW attended, with the yacht observed with sails furled under a blue cover.
• Investigators are treating the death as a likely misadventure as they continue to examine the circumstances.