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* Wilbur Hubbard wrote, On 3/29/2007 1:59 PM:
"Jeff" wrote in message ... over forever. You keep saying that, but you seem to have trouble finding cases of them going over. I guess you have a short memory. I recall one washing up on the beach in California upside down will all hands missing and most likely dead. It washed up on the beach upside down. About a month or two ago. Yup, that's certainly one case. Although, there were a number of interesting issues with that one, such as what were they doing out there, and how many other people died in the same storm. One key point is that had they stayed below they would have survived, and anyone who might have been on deck on a monohull in the same conditions could easily have been lost. If the EPIRB had been rigged, they may have been rescued, since there was evidence that at least one person was on the overturned vessel for some time. And as I said, there have been a few such cases, but not very many. Showing that cats have a capsize rate roughly the same as the monohull sinking rate does not mark them as unsafe. |
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