"Harbin Osteen" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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Gordon wrote:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...GHUN14OU18.DTL

Looks like they got caught in that big storm.
Gordon

The article referenced above had the following comment"

"Double-hulled catamaran sailboats are fast and lightweight -- and
harder to
capsize than some single-hull sloops. "

What they should have added is that single hull boats have one stable
state,
right side
up. Even when they capsize, the heavy keel will bring it back upright.
A
catamaran,
on the other hand, is stable in two configurations, upright and upside
down.
Once
they flip, they almost never right themselves.

Sherwin D.




Yeah, possibly on the bottom. Whereas the catamaran won't sink.


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Yep, don't leave the boat until the boat leaves you. I would feel safer in
a multihull.

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SeeYaa Harbin Osteen KG6URO

When American Citizens with dual citizenship pledges allegiance
to the flag, to which flag do they pledge allegiance too?


Obviously, I don't know better than anyone else what actually happened.
However, my guess is that they were on deck trying to get control of the
situation (as most of us would try to do), got hit by a big wave/high gust
combination, and went over the side either because they didn't use a harness
or the harness broke. Counter intuitive though it might have been, they were
safer below, hove to as best as they could manage.

I also don't understand why they didn't activate their EPIRB. There's no
requirement that the boat be sinking to do so.

I'm betting we'll never know with certainty what happened.

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