We'll be right back Jill!

Another leadmine disaster video.

This is an oldy that has somehow escaped my attention. A Capri 25 knockdown and bow woman overboard similar to the Melges 24 video posted a while ago. Some of the crew seem frozen but admittedly it is hard to do anything at 90 degrees. There is the fellow in the Tilley hat and the blue life jacket with a death grip on the leeward edge of the companionway and also the fellow in the orange lifejacket who, after enduring being submerged on the leeward rail, gets unceremoniously dumped down below, never to be seen again.

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The honorable Tillerman has commented with a link to the reply, posted on his blog, by the owner of the Capri 25, Mark Hammett. Well worth clicking over to get the full story. Let me state that I try to keep my editorial content from being too snarky. My regular readers know that my best sea stories are about my screw-ups.

Volvo Ocean Race, Torture Boats, Comment 3

Team Russia, a Rob Humphries design Volvo 70.

Reference my comment .... one day, one wave train you will get it wrong.



The video is a little bit discombobulated, but viewing it with some offshore sailors, here is how they dissect it.

- Boat piles up on a wave, slows and then broaches.

- Involuntary gybe and now the canting keel is on the wrong side.

- Boat can't right itself, so it stops in the vertical position until they can get the canting keel pumped around.

- Afterguard climbs to weather using whatever handholds they can find.

- Keel gets wound around and boat slowly rights itself. Offwatch scrambles on deck. We have video from the inside of the boat as the poor offwatch also have to contend with a now vertical floor.

- Adrenaline quotient 90/100 (at least they weren't sinking)

From the .... I'm glad I'm on this end looking in.

From the YouTube Universe; Melges 24 smackdown!

From YouTuber "rapidecharly", a Melges 24 blasting downwind seemingly under control untli they attempt a gybe at the 1 minute 22 second mark.



Glug! glug!