In article .com,
"Frogwatch" wrote:

In this video:

Why was his companionway open?

With no power and no way to sail out of the situation, wouldnt he have
been better to simply anchor? The anchor would have brought the bow to
the waves making him much less likely to roll over. Even then, the
breaking waves appear to be few so this would have given the rescuers
time to reach him.

Good points, though he had some way on under the main and probably
thought he could claw off the shore. (question, though: how did he later
drift into *calmer* water?)

Still, once he put out a distress call, which happened well before the
video started (or no one would have been there), he had time to toss out
all sorts of anchor, put the companionway to rights, perhaps get the
sail out of the water, drop and furl the main... that sort of thing.

Once you put out that call, they're rightfully expecting you to be where
you said you were.

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