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One lesson I learned, skip the boom furler, and stick with simple. Just saved myself $50k. lol.

I agree that the single reef was the start of the snowball.

I think I'll stick with my dutchman. So simple. I've always wanted a furling boom, but, now I am not so sure.

Are you guys saying that a mid-boom, german sheeting option would be safer given these circumstances? The CNB had this. Thats a lot of strain on two single spots. I wonder where the failure was exactly.

My next guess is a coronary event given his age, the stress levels and loss of blood.

I wondered the same thing. My uneducated guess was that her head injury had internal bleeding and brain swelling and eventually she succumbed. Head injuries need immediate care or you won't survive. If she had been on land, she would have been alive after a head injury like that with an EMT on...

When I saw the photo of the boat in better times my first thought was, I would probably have a topping lift installed as a redundancy. Hydraulics always fail eventually.

Just as I suspected. I assume the victims were hit by the swinging boom.

Failed boom vang. There is no topping lift on that rig.

What a terrible design. I cant believe CNB didn't place it at the helm like 99% of other boats with the same system. That could have been the difference between life and death for them.