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Head up, or bear off?? You can’t do both at once, so pick one. Time slows down, what seems like a minute is actually ten seconds. How much time have we each taken to suss out the error chain and tell about it? Way way WAY more time than they had, plus our world is calm, level and quiet...

Well Scuttlebutt has a more specific description than we had otherwise. Something in mainsheet attachments or blocks, or possibly the mainsheet itself parted? Or a traveller tore out or failed, Looks like a solid vang, so the boom is going to swing wildly in high seas if no effective sheet...

From the vague description: "There was some sort of rigging failure that had caused an injury to the lady on board, and when the gentleman went by to go help her, he sustained injuries as well," said Wilcox. What then, boom swinging freely in a seaway hit her head, he rushes in to get her...

That portion of mast that we see, stays, furled double-jibs, looks like all is intact. Boom, llooks intact, who knows, but no obvious topping lift. Injured how, then? Jibe? Topping lift parted? Carbon monoxide from somewhere? Don't mind me, ages ago I was a Coast Guard investigating...