Bobby, I was always taught just pre jibe, winch in the main to minimize the torque of the jibe, and to then let the sail back out and trim. Not saying this was the issue, but it did catch this old mans eye watching the video.
@@thereissomecoolstuff Thats rubbish. I race my 2005 Beneteau 523 in Wellington NZ (that means 20-30kts is a nice race day!) all the time. Cruising boats aren't that soft! Something must have been majorly wrong with this rig!
@@TURSTY09 so you have a 2005. This boat was a 2018 or newer. I would take your boat over a newer cruiser. He showed the conditions. It wasn't extreme. There was something wrong with the rig alright. If it's blowing 50 or they get nailed by a downdraft great. That wasn't the case. Boats are being made cheaper and cheaper.
@@thereissomecoolstuff or some maintenance was not carried out correctly. Rigs are getting stronger and lighter. I’d take a modern rig over a older one any day.
With all of the constant stress on the sails and the mast, I'm sure this must happen more than we see! It's good that it was in that environment, and not on a crossing with minimal crew. Very very lucky but the crew did an amazing job making the boat safe under pressure!!
@@gzo313 you can pledge per video with a limit on how many videos a month you want to pay so if you want to pay $10 a month then limit it to one video at $10 per video a month.
Fortunate no one was injured, wow dangerous situation and thankfully a capable crew.. Steph looks pretty happy and Meg and Flo can sure shake up the dance floor in a great party afterwards :-)...great filming and a rare time when the action is caught first hand...thanks for sharing :-)
Bobby, nice maneuver avoiding injuries and I love your handlebar mustache. French fashion at the beginning of the twentieth century ... a french sailor ,
Dinghy jibe (no centering) in that breeze and not enough boat speed to reduce the apparent wind and things break. Not saying I know but if the rig did fail during a jibe, that’s probably what happened. I once lost a boom that way. Glad nobody was hurt.
BOAT = Bust Out Another Thousand! Just when you guys had it in the bag! ...learned another limit on that boat.😧Nice job handling an emergency situation with cool confidence. I like that about Bobby. When I'm in similar conditions, though, I do wear a low profile, self inflating pfd. Helps the confidence level a bit. Thanks for sharing the video.
Crazy stuff happens. The Guy Dan Cundiff could be right. But things can happen. Back Stay Too Tight. Etc. I was on a 42' Peterson "Geronimo" Santa Barbara, Ca. in the 80's. Wet Wednesday Black Flag was raised. 35+ winds. We were the only Boat flying a Spinker that Day. Crazy Puff of a Wind knocked us over "BIG" Time. I was working fore Deck. Hit my mouth on the Spinker Pole Crank . Lucky to grab a hold of a Jib Sheet and Safety Lines was under water for 20 seconds. Mass was 10" from the water line. And we Broke the Spinker Pole in half. The Keel came out of the water. We were lucky not to sink the Boat. At least 15 People on Board. Keep posting Great videos!
I was racing on an Escow in Charleston SC harbor and had a the mast snap head high, I still can hear the snap and see it coming my direction!!!! Won’t ever forget that one!
It's better that it happened at a near shore regatta than hundreds of miles at sea during a passage! Trying to secure the mast for the balance of a passage could have resulted in casualties among crew and boat... Keep up the great videos and above all STAY SAFE! ⛵❤️😁
Going to guess, strong winds + weak rigging. Once the rigging snaps under extreme tension, the mast has no support and it all collapses. The rigging may have been old/corroded (metal fatigue) or not a thick enough gauge for racing in strong wind. You gotta keep this shit maintained/upgraded commensurate with its age and usage.
Wind/sea conditions were not nearly bad enough to be the sole cause of this rigging failure. Either the rigging tension was way off on the lowers relative to the uppers, OR more likely a stay or fitting failed. Stainless Steel is corrosion "resistant", not corrosion "proof"!
As an avid sailor, it is important, before a race to Tune your rig. From the looks of the boat, it looks like the rig wasn't tuned properly, with wind speeds 20 knts, the rig failed. Good work by the crew keeping everyone safe, it could have been worse!
I've done the Heineken Regatta a couple of times and we weren't demasted but we did a double broach and snapped gooseneck and folded the stanchion in front of the wheel making an impossible to move the traveler and snapped the chain controlling the quadrant so we had no steering at the wheel. We got out the emergency tiller which was extremely short and took two people to operate and despite the Carnage we managed to finish the race in Phillipsburg. We managed to get back through the bridge and brought the boat over to the Boatyard and a machine to new gooseneck fix the stanchion fixed the steering and all the money won at the casino the night before paid for the repairs. We were out racing the next day.
Bummer about the mast and losing bragging rights for first place in the regatta. On the other hand, it’s great no injuries were incurred during the accident - and afterwards at the celebration par-tay! 😆🎊🍾
Bobby take command when disaster calls, he's been in so many, he's a disaster pro!!! + he gets all that attention back on the dock, he even dresses for the occasion.
Here's what happened to the mast: Usually when a rig collapses, the 9 out of 10 times, it's beacause of broken stays. The question we should be asking is: which shroud has snapped? We can immediately eliminate the backstay. When we are sailing upwind hard, the backstay is under very little load and besides, most modern rigs can stand even without a backstay. Next we can eliminate the sidestays. After the rig collapsed,we could see it was rocking left and right with the waves, but it did not fall overboard. This effectively means that the sidestays were in tact even after the disaster. You could make a point that the sidestays might have snapped at the top of the rig and the bottom sidestays were still in tact, but if that were the case the upper half of the mast would have fallen to leeward during the disaster. Based on the fact that the mast fell backwards, we can assume with near certainty that the forestay was the cause of the disaster. To back this claim up, in the very first camera shot from the bow camera, you can see the top of the mast laying on the stern of the boat, while the top of the genoa furler (the one that has the forestay running through it) is somewhere off in the distance about 20ish meters to leeward. Beacause of the fact that the bottom of the furling drum was still attached to the boat after the disaster, we can assume with near certainty that the top of the forestay had separated from the mast. This is the point where the whole break started. If the sidestays or the backstay had snapped, the top of the forestay would certainly still be attached to the mast even after the disaster. The question remains: who is to blame for this catastrophy? The boat is made by Beneteau, and the mast and shrouds are made by Z-Spars. Say what you like about that. One thing to noth though is the fact that beacause of the fact that there are so many beneteau boats around, statistically and mathematically it is only natural for this to happen to Beneteaus more often than it would happen to a Hallberg Rassy for example. Let me just remind you that Hallberg Rassy use the same mast and rigging supplyer as Bavaria (also a mass production yard). Again, say what you like about that. Some people will say that this couldn't have happened to a keel stepped mast. This is simply wrong. Keel stepped masts still rely on the stays, if one of the stays would snap, a keel stepped mast would still come down. If the mast on this Beneteau was keel stepped, the outcome would still be the same, if not slightly worse, as the mast tube itself would break in two points instead of one: at deck level, and half way up the rig. If you've made it this far into my comment, you might be interested in the Holcim-PRB dismasting that occoured during the 2023 edition of the ocean race (former Volvo ocean race). Just google "Holcim PRB dismasted" and you will find a really sweet video documentary of a very similar accident to the one in this video. It's presented by the official ocean race show host Niall Myant-Best.
That sucks that you guys broke down and in a good position. But .. nobody got hurt, some of the crew probably learned something if not all of the crew learned something. So in reality, it's still a win
@@Sailingdoodles Stays and their connections fail all the time especially in warm climates that accelerate corrosion that is not visible to the eye. If it wasn't the uncontrolled swing of the boom creating excessive instant massive shock loads to the stays...what was it?
@@gregfawcett5152 None of the uncontrolled jibes looked to me to be enough force on their own to be the cause of failure. My guess is some fitting of the rig was faulty or very poorly tuned.
Good video. It's not too often that anyone films the aftermath of a dismasting so it was interesting to see. I hope that it never happens to me, but in the event that it does I learned a few things that need to be dealt with in the aftermath that I would not have thought about before watching this video. It's too bad you didn't catch the moment of mast failure. I wonder what failed. The boat looked pretty new, and there were no running backstays involved, so not a great advertisement for US Spars, eh.
I hadn’t given it much thought before but the stress on the mast must be huge especially when you jibe, because you had already warned your audience about it it was quite noticeable how the mast shuddered when you took that final turn at the last marker, hope the mast was covered by insurance 🇬🇧
Congratulations 🎉 I'm so glad none of you were injured. I totally enjoyed the celebration. Especially the booty shakin contest 🍑 Hugs from Texas sweeties 😎
Stephanie looks every bit at home as if she had been sailing all her life. She is flying home soon I hope its not permanent that she is not leaving Sailing Doodles that's its just to visit.
Yep, the crew could blow off the stress and get 3 sheets to the wind while the pros made the boat safe. That's as good of an ending as could be expected for such damage.
Find it hard to believe it is a decked stepped mast, especially on a boat that sized, scary. Least it is on the land and can’t hurt anyone now. Did you get the headsail back from the navy?
thats what i call teamwork in an emergency congrats to all it was a win for you all as no one got hurt its not the winning that counts but the taking part (said no one ever ) {:-) PAV uk
Ok so I am not a sailor but is it ok to allow the boom to slam from one side to the other during a tack or jibe? From an engineering point of view the shock loads would be tremendous and could cause metal fatigue/failure.
@@Sailingdoodles The damage was done long before that gybe. It may have been the straw that broke the camels back. They should have been able to see what broke that day and diagnosed what the cause was.
Bobby, I was always taught just pre jibe, winch in the main to minimize the torque of the jibe, and to then let the sail back out and trim. Not saying this was the issue, but it did catch this old mans eye watching the video.
Beat me to it. Watching them jibe was hurting me inside. ouch!
@@searay7723 That first jibe was very painful to watch, VERY.
Bobby, as always, taking charge of an emergent situation and bringing calm. Bobby, you are a true captain!
So glad everyone is safe! well done and have fun! Did Bobby really take charge of the situation out in the open sea??
Typical pilot. Calm under pressure.
Bobby, please follow up with a vid explaining what happened to that mast! Please! Glad no one was hurt!
Same…. Standing rigging tension way off? Couldn’t have been been much load….
They raced a cruising boat to hard. Snap goes the weasel..
@@thereissomecoolstuff Thats rubbish. I race my 2005 Beneteau 523 in Wellington NZ (that means 20-30kts is a nice race day!) all the time. Cruising boats aren't that soft! Something must have been majorly wrong with this rig!
@@TURSTY09 so you have a 2005. This boat was a 2018 or newer. I would take your boat over a newer cruiser. He showed the conditions. It wasn't extreme. There was something wrong with the rig alright. If it's blowing 50 or they get nailed by a downdraft great. That wasn't the case. Boats are being made cheaper and cheaper.
@@thereissomecoolstuff or some maintenance was not carried out correctly. Rigs are getting stronger and lighter. I’d take a modern rig over a older one any day.
So glad no one was hurt. This is an extremely valuable video for education.
A "Mastaccre". Good one Stephanie! Yet, you all still have a blast. Keep Rocking!
With all of the constant stress on the sails and the mast, I'm sure this must happen more than we see! It's good that it was in that environment, and not on a crossing with minimal crew. Very very lucky but the crew did an amazing job making the boat safe under pressure!!
'No one got hurt', the best first statement you like to hear. People first will get you further than most realize.
Bobby the sailing community is a wonderful kind of people, every one is helping and gives there out most best to get things done. Cheers Cape Town.
Saw this on Patreon a few days ago. Anyone that’s not a Patron should definitely join. Bobby and the girls make being a member well worth it!
Do I read it correctly is it a per video fee vs. a flat monthly amount?
@@gzo313 you can pledge per video with a limit on how many videos a month you want to pay so if you want to pay $10 a month then limit it to one video at $10 per video a month.
Thanks guys! I wish I could change it to a little that option but I can’t. So Eric is right, you can put a limit per month.
Good to see everyone was safe and in goods spirits…
Congratulations Megan. Looking good. Really good.
Wow...what a difference a day makes....Good work
Fortunate no one was injured, wow dangerous situation and thankfully a capable crew..
Steph looks pretty happy and Meg and Flo can sure shake up the dance floor in a great party afterwards :-)...great filming and a rare time when the action is caught first hand...thanks for sharing :-)
Looks like you all stayed calm and worked the problem methodically. Well done. Glad no one was hurt.
Wow! So glad you got home safe and no injuries! On the other hand, the ‘stach reminds me of Bob from Bobs Burgers :D
Glad to see that no one got hurt and help arrived quickly…hope that the boat is repaired soon…
Epic Bobby, great filming, praise God no one was hurt and you all had a great finish. 👍
Cute Heineken girl with her braids up! Well done Bobby!
The boat owners seemed to take it fairly well even though that is a lot of money in damages. Glad no one was hurt.
Bobby, nice maneuver avoiding injuries and I love your handlebar mustache. French fashion at the beginning of the twentieth century ... a french sailor ,
Dinghy jibe (no centering) in that breeze and not enough boat speed to reduce the apparent wind and things break. Not saying I know but if the rig did fail during a jibe, that’s probably what happened. I once lost a boom that way. Glad nobody was hurt.
Wow that was epic! Way to take care of things with everyone getting to work during a major issue. Glad nobody was injured!
Yay.caught a live feed. On my way! From Greece to meet up on the floatilla
Loved how 'Motor Bobby' stepped aside just when 'Sail Bobby' needed to man the deck in that emergency. 👍👍
BOAT = Bust Out Another Thousand! Just when you guys had it in the bag! ...learned another limit on that boat.😧Nice job handling an emergency situation with cool confidence. I like that about Bobby. When I'm in similar conditions, though, I do wear a low profile, self inflating pfd. Helps the confidence level a bit. Thanks for sharing the video.
Sounds like a great had by all! Thanks for sharing!
Crazy stuff happens. The Guy Dan Cundiff could be right. But things can happen. Back Stay Too Tight. Etc. I was on a 42' Peterson "Geronimo" Santa Barbara, Ca. in the 80's. Wet Wednesday Black Flag was raised. 35+ winds. We were the only Boat flying a Spinker that Day. Crazy Puff of a Wind knocked us over "BIG" Time. I was working fore Deck. Hit my mouth on the Spinker Pole Crank . Lucky to grab a hold of a Jib Sheet and Safety Lines was under water for 20 seconds. Mass was 10" from the water line. And we Broke the Spinker Pole in half. The Keel came out of the water. We were lucky not to sink the Boat. At least 15 People on Board. Keep posting Great videos!
Top Leistung Bobby and Crew. Sei froh das Du nicht der Besitzer des Bootes bist. Viel Spaß auf allen Euren Wegen.
that was unreal! Cool as a cucumber under pressure Bobby!
I was racing on an Escow in Charleston SC harbor and had a the mast snap head high, I still can hear the snap and see it coming my direction!!!!
Won’t ever forget that one!
It's better that it happened at a near shore regatta than hundreds of miles at sea during a passage! Trying to secure the mast for the balance of a passage could have resulted in casualties among crew and boat...
Keep up the great videos and above all STAY SAFE! ⛵❤️😁
Has the cause been determined? Interested to learn details.
Going to guess, strong winds + weak rigging. Once the rigging snaps under extreme tension, the mast has no support and it all collapses. The rigging may have been old/corroded (metal fatigue) or not a thick enough gauge for racing in strong wind. You gotta keep this shit maintained/upgraded commensurate with its age and usage.
Wind/sea conditions were not nearly bad enough to be the sole cause of this rigging failure. Either the rigging tension was way off on the lowers relative to the uppers, OR more likely a stay or fitting failed. Stainless Steel is corrosion "resistant", not corrosion "proof"!
It’s a brand new Beneteau. Unreal.
Well done, no injuries is a blessing
Great Job under pressure MEN!!!!!!! Great job SUKI CREW!!!!!!
That really sucks the mast broke I feel bad for you guys and am glad no one got hurt. Good job guys very nice race.
As an avid sailor, it is important, before a race to Tune your rig. From the looks of the boat, it looks like the rig wasn't tuned properly, with wind speeds 20 knts, the rig failed. Good work by the crew keeping everyone safe, it could have been worse!
Kudos to the navy boys showing up to help also. Everyone did a great job recovering!!
Great to see a team to be quick and decisive in making the boat and rig stable. 🎉🎉🎉
Scary ! Lucky no one was hurt. What caused that mast to break and who pays for it's replacement(and cost) ?
So glad everyone was safe, but sad you didn't get to win the race. Guess you won in life though. Cheers to better and more success in the future!
I've done the Heineken Regatta a couple of times and we weren't demasted but we did a double broach and snapped gooseneck and folded the stanchion in front of the wheel making an impossible to move the traveler and snapped the chain controlling the quadrant so we had no steering at the wheel. We got out the emergency tiller which was extremely short and took two people to operate and despite the Carnage we managed to finish the race in Phillipsburg. We managed to get back through the bridge and brought the boat over to the Boatyard and a machine to new gooseneck fix the stanchion fixed the steering and all the money won at the casino the night before paid for the repairs. We were out racing the next day.
Any mast collapse that everyone can walk away from is a relatively good mast collapse.
Glad no one got hurt👍have fun Aloha from Hawaii 🤙🏽😎🌴
Great channel and content! Sorry about the disaster, but all are ok!
Bummer about the mast and losing bragging rights for first place in the regatta. On the other hand, it’s great no injuries were incurred during the accident - and afterwards at the celebration par-tay! 😆🎊🍾
Glad to hear nobody was injured
Glad you all got back safe
Bobby take command when disaster calls, he's been in so many, he's a disaster pro!!! + he gets all that attention back on the dock, he even dresses for the occasion.
That was scary!!...though everyone made it to land safetly, that was good!!!
Well done Bobby helping that fast on stricken boat.
Here's what happened to the mast:
Usually when a rig collapses, the 9 out of 10 times, it's beacause of broken stays. The question we should be asking is: which shroud has snapped? We can immediately eliminate the backstay. When we are sailing upwind hard, the backstay is under very little load and besides, most modern rigs can stand even without a backstay.
Next we can eliminate the sidestays. After the rig collapsed,we could see it was rocking left and right with the waves, but it did not fall overboard. This effectively means that the sidestays were in tact even after the disaster. You could make a point that the sidestays might have snapped at the top of the rig and the bottom sidestays were still in tact, but if that were the case the upper half of the mast would have fallen to leeward during the disaster. Based on the fact that the mast fell backwards, we can assume with near certainty that the forestay was the cause of the disaster.
To back this claim up, in the very first camera shot from the bow camera, you can see the top of the mast laying on the stern of the boat, while the top of the genoa furler (the one that has the forestay running through it) is somewhere off in the distance about 20ish meters to leeward. Beacause of the fact that the bottom of the furling drum was still attached to the boat after the disaster, we can assume with near certainty that the top of the forestay had separated from the mast. This is the point where the whole break started. If the sidestays or the backstay had snapped, the top of the forestay would certainly still be attached to the mast even after the disaster.
The question remains: who is to blame for this catastrophy? The boat is made by Beneteau, and the mast and shrouds are made by Z-Spars. Say what you like about that. One thing to noth though is the fact that beacause of the fact that there are so many beneteau boats around, statistically and mathematically it is only natural for this to happen to Beneteaus more often than it would happen to a Hallberg Rassy for example. Let me just remind you that Hallberg Rassy use the same mast and rigging supplyer as Bavaria (also a mass production yard). Again, say what you like about that.
Some people will say that this couldn't have happened to a keel stepped mast. This is simply wrong. Keel stepped masts still rely on the stays, if one of the stays would snap, a keel stepped mast would still come down. If the mast on this Beneteau was keel stepped, the outcome would still be the same, if not slightly worse, as the mast tube itself would break in two points instead of one: at deck level, and half way up the rig.
If you've made it this far into my comment, you might be interested in the Holcim-PRB dismasting that occoured during the 2023 edition of the ocean race (former Volvo ocean race). Just google "Holcim PRB dismasted" and you will find a really sweet video documentary of a very similar accident to the one in this video. It's presented by the official ocean race show host Niall Myant-Best.
Watching from high sierra in Nor Calif.
That sucks that you guys broke down and in a good position. But .. nobody got hurt, some of the crew probably learned something if not all of the crew learned something. So in reality, it's still a win
That’s scary. Did you ever determine the cause of the failure? Nice job recovering safely.
Thanks for the reminder not to let that boom swing uncontrollably as it puts too much shock load on the stays causing them to fail.
That was not a violent gybe. The boat should get knocked over from wind before the rig should fail like it did.
@@Sailingdoodles Stays and their connections fail all the time especially in warm climates that accelerate corrosion that is not visible to the eye. If it wasn't the uncontrolled swing of the boom creating excessive instant massive shock loads to the stays...what was it?
@@gregfawcett5152 None of the uncontrolled jibes looked to me to be enough force on their own to be the cause of failure. My guess is some fitting of the rig was faulty or very poorly tuned.
Girl's got moves!!! I see why she won!!! Sweet baby Jesus!
It's nice to know that Bobby wasn't the cause of the rig failure , or was he ?
He knew when to turn the camera off eh !
Sabotage was mentioned.
You’re the man Bobby!
Good video. It's not too often that anyone films the aftermath of a dismasting so it was interesting to see. I hope that it never happens to me, but in the event that it does I learned a few things that need to be dealt with in the aftermath that I would not have thought about before watching this video. It's too bad you didn't catch the moment of mast failure. I wonder what failed. The boat looked pretty new, and there were no running backstays involved, so not a great advertisement for US Spars, eh.
Megan, you got it baby!!!
Great job Bobby!
Wow , !!! Bobby , You'll be rethinking the "Dark Side "
Glad everyone was safe
That is a bad break. So glad no one got keel hauled.
I am curious for some discussion on what caused the rig to come down. Any chance that was discovered?
Awesome content as always
WOW, imagine this would happen in the middle of the ocean, carzy
And that's why you should wear a PFD. Especially when racing. It doesn't mather if you can swim if you get knocked out...
Good job Bobby!!
Why isn't anyone wearing life vest.....I don't understand. Please explain!
I hadn’t given it much thought before but the stress on the mast must be huge especially when you jibe, because you had already warned your audience about it it was quite noticeable how the mast shuddered when you took that final turn at the last marker, hope the mast was covered by insurance 🇬🇧
Congratulations 🎉 I'm so glad none of you were injured. I totally enjoyed the celebration. Especially the booty shakin contest 🍑 Hugs from Texas sweeties 😎
Bobby I hope you do a post Mortem as to what exactly caused the failure
thats what i call team work in an emergency
well done lasses and guys
its not the winning its the taking part
( said no one ever )
{:-) PAV uk
Stephanie looks every bit at home as if she had been sailing all her life. She is flying home soon I hope its not permanent that she is not leaving Sailing Doodles that's its just to visit.
I didn’t know Bobby was a gangsta 😅 Pumping good vibes 😎 through this vid G 💯
Wow, what a shame. Thank God, no one got hurt. The boat owner took it very well, until he gets the bill.
Pretty cool how they just get to fixing that mastacre right away.
Yep, the crew could blow off the stress and get 3 sheets to the wind while the pros made the boat safe. That's as good of an ending as could be expected for such damage.
WAY TO GO MEGAN !!!!
Wow. I’d love to know why no one put on a life jacket when things got bad? Glad you guys made it out without any injuries.
Yep. Now imagine if any one of those crew had been hit by the debris and gone overboard...
They should have been wearing PFD's to begin with.
Find it hard to believe it is a decked stepped mast, especially on a boat that sized, scary. Least it is on the land and can’t hurt anyone now.
Did you get the headsail back from the navy?
Deck stepped masts on big boats are not that unusual.
@@danielsteinberg4209 most I’ve seen were keel stepped unless they were a tabernacle mast to get under a bridge, yet those aren’t for crossing oceans
thats what i call teamwork in an emergency
congrats to all
it was a win for you all as no one got hurt
its not the winning that counts
but the taking part
(said no one ever )
{:-) PAV uk
What does something like that cost and how long to get the mast and parts? Then how long to get it repaired?
Boat that size, could be up to a 100k to get everything fixed and sea worthy again.
Reminds you of the stress and loads there are on boats rigging.
That must have been an expensive repair money can always be figured out glad no one got hurt.
The great Poseidon decided against taking that fine craft for himself. 😎
Aww you could of won how shitty but the important thing is no one got hurt. lovin your vids guy's.💯💥⛵⛵⚓
Captian change at sea. Very lucky the youtube captain was along for the ride.
Oh my message disappeared was just asking how natural Stephanie was looking and If she was leaving Sailing Doodles as she mentioned going home.
That was exciting!
ACTUALLY GOOD LUCK🎉
COULD HAVE HAPPENED
ON OPEN SEA IN BAD
WEATHER WITH NO
OTHER BOATS AROUND.
BETTER IT FAILED THEN.
Safe Sailing Bobby🌴
Ok so I am not a sailor but is it ok to allow the boom to slam from one side to the other during a tack or jibe? From an engineering point of view the shock loads would be tremendous and could cause metal fatigue/failure.
That was far from a violent gybe.
@@Sailingdoodles The damage was done long before that gybe. It may have been the straw that broke the camels back. They should have been able to see what broke that day and diagnosed what the cause was.
Wow that was crazy well thank God for Captain Jack Sparrow
Life jackets?
what do you think caused the mast to break or why..just be keen to learn why please
Keel stepped? was it loose down below?
I take it a stay or shroud snapped. Did you figure out exactly what happened?
Very stressful. Hoping that's not common. Seems like quite the disaster for a mast to break.
I think we are missing that congratulations are in order for Megan winning the twerking contest.
EXCELLENT !!! 😉