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From: Ahmet (no email)
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 15:25:57 EDT
I am always interested in doing case studies to analyse what went wrong cruising disasters, or mishaps.
I was somewhat close with what happened to the Almesian last year when she floundered on her way from Newport to Bermuda, resulting in the loss of life of the skipper. A good friend of mine was one of the crew, and he has held several show-and-tells at our yacht club explaining in detail what happened.
There are some parallels between that and the case of Mr Wood's Eclipse mishap. Although it seems like Ecclips actually survived the storm better.
I wonder what Richard Woods would do differently in hindsight.
I am especially interested on how and why the sea-anchor failed, and what could have been done differently to prevent the wild motion the boat had while at anchor.
Specifically ..
* Should the anchor be attached differently on a multihull.. (somehow at the centerline of the boat, or from one hull)
* Was the line too short ?
It is very rare to get real-life accounts of these kinds of cases, and the lessons learne could be very helpful.
Ahmet
www.sailnomad.com
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