Folks,
For those interested, US Sailing has released the detailed anaylis and report of the Wingnuts Mac Race fatal accident. This weekend I attended the Mac Race awards dinner in Chicago, and a good amount of time was spent on this and many awards and accolades were given to the crew of Sociable, the Beneteau 40.7 which performed the resuce of the 6 survivors of Wingnuts, and searched for another 3 hours on-site until diverting to Charlevoix to get the survivors some needed medical attention. We should all be thankful that there are boats with the courage and skill displayed by Sociable out there in case they are needed, and we should all make a committment to be able to do the same thing if called upon to do so.
The report can be found by pasting this into your browser. Sobering reading, but accurate and valuable.
Sail safe!
http://media.ussailing.org/AssetFactory.aspx?vid=16940
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For those interested, US Sailing has released the detailed anaylis and report of the Wingnuts Mac Race fatal accident. This weekend I attended the Mac Race awards dinner in Chicago, and a good amount of time was spent on this and many awards and accolades were given to the crew of Sociable, the Beneteau 40.7 which performed the resuce of the 6 survivors of Wingnuts, and searched for another 3 hours on-site until diverting to Charlevoix to get the survivors some needed medical attention. We should all be thankful that there are boats with the courage and skill displayed by Sociable out there in case they are needed, and we should all make a committment to be able to do the same thing if called upon to do so.
The report can be found by pasting this into your browser. Sobering reading, but accurate and valuable.
Sail safe!
http://media.ussailing.org/AssetFactory.aspx?vid=16940
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