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I think you're right. The two winches are located just forward of the wheel, as shown in these photos of Rainmaker before the disaster: http://www.sailingworld.com/features/2015-boat-of-the-year/ And here are the recent photos magnified 6X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh01heb5pNo

If not for the damage trying to come alongside the ship (an idiot move!), I'd guess she's still floating. When the 40' trimaran Aotea pitchpoled in the 1995 Double Handed Farallones Race off San Francisco, it wasn't found or seen again for 13 months, until it drifted into the lagoon of Nomwin...

http://www.heinekenregatta.com/ https://app.regattaguru.com/heineken/100083/results https://app.regattaguru.com/heineken/100083/class_results/100746 Fastest Round the Island results https://app.regattaguru.com/heineken/100083/tt_results/fa4c1ec9-d87f-424b-bf3d-57686eb1e45a

I think Clean makes a valid observation in his "Gap 1": Unfortunately, his last paragraph is tainted with the phrase "an unforecast and extreme weather event"... which appears to be more of a preclusion than a conclusion. The forecast they had prior to departure proved to be extremely...

And they arrived in port under their own jury rig 40 days later, after losing mast and rudder when she went briefly MOB! Amazing. 1957. Some great footage. Wonder if they got any video on Rainmaker's last trip?

"seas around 15" according to Rainmaker's captain, in part 2. I would say 12-14 feet. Salon roof is ~9.5' above water. Not so bad if the boat still worked. They were expecting 35 knot winds and stronger gusts, so how much sail did they have up? Seems like the engines were used too soon...

Damage is to port side, where the mast fell down, to leeward? Consistent with theory of being on starboard tack when peak of storm passed and wind shifted ninety degrees, from SW (broad reach) to NW (aft?).

Wow. Amazing pics of Rainmaker. Love the wide view of the helo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwaybuyeryfrtdb/IMG_0553.jpg?dl=0 Here it is cropped:

Certainly less feedback than holding the helm when trimming the sails. All the more crucial when conditions are changing, esp. wind direction. They had been on a heading of 100 with TWD 120 degrees off to starboard (TWD 220), when the wind shifted from SW to NW, bringing it astern. According...

It was Gulf Streamer, not Rogue Wave, that flipped north of Bermuda in 1976, stranding Phil Weld and a crewman for five days before a British container ship rescued them. It was later picked up by the Nikolai Ananiev, a Soviet freighter on her way to Lisbon. There, Gulf Streamer was transferred...

Not quite submerged but nearly level in flat water: There are fleeting moments in the video showing waves rolling up the steps, the clearest (not IR) at .

In the Multihull Anarchy thread: http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=163512&p=4828385

At 3 knots drift speed (72 miles per day), that's a 500 mile radius? Unless it washed ashore somewhere. Weather analysis should have narrowed the search. Unless it was holed, I doubt that it flipped or sunk. As I recall, at least one abandoned catamaran went through a hurricane and stayed on...

Dude, I'm serious as a heart attack. Most people can't afford to make big mistakes, yet the world is full of terrible decisions with major consequences. It takes wealth and power to fuck up big time (yet often walk away with even more wealth and power!).

Push a button? Quite right, sadly. People who can afford to make mistakes seem to make more of them.

There are no GB owners without the proper "wherewithal" (one L, not two). He is referring to MONEY, not required skill levels.

Nice. Displacement of the CW Atlantic 57 is 13+ tons.

"flock of idiots posting crap", "peanut gallery"... Self-righteous indignation in SA forums is so fucking pretentious, eh?