JimC wrote:
Popping the vang??? (maybe, maybe not.)

and the spinnaker sheet

As I said.....

are the only things left to do,


These things don't have cleats on the spinnaker sheet. And it looks
like the crew has both hands on the gun'l.

And you're right about the vang


Peter S/Y Anicula wrote:
Why haven't anyone mentioned the kicking strap ?


Sorry, should have translated "boom vang" into English for you

I spent some time studying the angle of the boat and position of the
rudder and what little you can see of the tiller... kinda looks to me
as though the skipper was trying to bear away or at least not round up
further. Of course, there's also a rocky shore fairly close under
their lee so there isn't a whole lot of room to run off downwind and
try to settle things down. I'm thinking it may have been a race and
these guys got hit by a gust partway into the spinnaker takedown,
zooming them past the leeward mark and into trouble.

Capsizing would be less of a PITA than planing up onto somebody's
lawn, especially when that involves bouncing over a rock seawall.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

I spent some time looking closely at the