grumpygit
Well-known member
The crew appeared to be pretty experienced, if unfamiliar with the boat.
"1 USCG licensed captain; 1 with over fifteen years of sailing experience"
People seem to think that they had an accidental gybe, but that's not what happened. They were head to wind and wave action was throwing the boom around.
I think the take away is to reef early especially if the weather is different to the forecast.
Such a terrible accident and I'm not sure we should sitting in judgement, we were not there and it is so easy sat at our keyboards and make judgement.
I think hand on heart most of us if not all have got caught out and into a position or situation where we should have reefed earlier or could have done something different to stop something happening.
At the end of the day we should learn by the mistakes of ones own or others, and be thankful we still can.