Frogwatch wrote:

Why was his companionway open?

Hard to put yourself in the mind of a terrified human being. I would guess
that his panicked 2 year old child on board had a lot to do with the hatch
being open. Being rolled over may have been the last thing on his mind and
watching and reassuring a terrified child would be hard to talk yourself out
of doing.

As to what he was doing out in those conditions with a 2 year old and no
adult... well, maybe that just gives us an insight into his level of
judgement.


With no power and no way to sail out of the situation, wouldnt he have
been better to simply anchor?

Looking at how little wind there was, I suspect that the boat would not have
headed up into the seas, if indeed the wind was onshore. He might well have
just ended up in the troughs but anchored. That wouldn't have changed the
outcome very much.

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Roger Long