MORE than 100 New Year's Eve revellers have been helped from two sinkingboats in Sydney Harbour.
Police say 100 party-goers were rescued from a yacht near Garden Island about 8pm (AEDT) when the vessel began taking on water.
The police boat Nemesis took 60 people to safety on shore, while another 40 found refuge on a nearby private boat.
A police spokesman said the yacht was outside the exclusion zone and did not threatening the end of year fireworks display in the harbour.
More than an hour later, six people also had to be rescued from a sinking boat on the harbour.
The boat started sinking around 9.40pm, shortly after the fireworks show.
Four police boats were on scene helping passengers off the vessel.
An AAP reporter witnessed the boat sink, with just the front of the vessel sticking out of the water near Mrs Macquarie's chair.
Water police helped the six passengers onto another boat.
No one was injured in either of the rescues, a spokesman said.
news.com.au
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