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Maybe their disruptive electro-hydraulic computerized robotic bucket was damaged by water as well.

Car steering wheel and RV swivel chairs. WTF. These are sailboats? Why bother? But, WTF do I know. Obviously some people want these things, because they exist. I just can't understand the appeal - if I wanted to be so far removed from the labor and sensations of sailing that I perceived a...

I thought they were decorative, to remind you you're on a sailboat. Would be fun to try to use those winches if the electrics failed, eh?

Clearly, for Rainmaker, dismasting was a serious game-over event. Clean: Point taken. But, Phaedo was racing when she dismasted, right? And how many (and what kind of) crew did she have aboard at the time? I know the owner was at the helm, but did the crew consist of only mom, the two kids...

So what I'm hearing is that, on these big GBs, a dismasting is essentially a game-over, oh-shit-we-gotta-get-off-the-boat-now event. The falling rig compromises the integrity of the interior, it can't be cleared by hand, and attempting to clear it under power (obviously) is going to foul the...

Who'd a thunk?

Agreed. It would also now appear that this particular boat design cannot survive a dismasting and still be a safe platform for its crew: broken glass & hydraulic fluid everywhere, hatches that won't close, wave tops coming into the salon... yikes.

Of course, but so far in this story there are no admissions of anything resembling a mistake or even retrospective doubt over the decisions made... At any rate, I am learning alot from this saga. For instance, I didn't realize that calling for a helo rescue was the favored Plan B among...

In Part 1 of the front page infomercial, Captain Perfect specifically mentioned an impeccably prepared life raft and ditch kit: Apparently this equipment was either packed as ballast, inaccessible for some reason, or only intended for use when abandoning ship in nice weather.

I'm curious to hear an explanation of why they chose to (1) bash against the side of a freighter, then, (2) call for an airlift, rather than just ditch into their life raft, given the Part I claims that they were so infinitely well-prepared for self-sufficient survival at sea. What urgency...

Why do you suppose the tone turned sour?

At this point it is apparent that those directly involved (and their friends) do not want the details of the story to be known, for whatever reason. That is their prerogative, and I suppose you are correct: the rest of us do not "deserve" to know what happened because we don't have any money or...

Conspiracy tinfoil: the top-secret GB search team found and quietly scuttled it to prevent the truth about the failure mode from being made public.