The team said in a statement that fellow crew members were the only other people on board the yacht Iroquois, which was at Rowes Wharf near the financial district and is a sight familiar to Bostonians.
Among the 30 or so people waiting outside the shiny riverside buildings at St George Wharf in the bitter cold were students Hiam Aldroubi, 22, and Reem Binkhamis, 25.