I didn't get a hit on that google suggestion. I know the real story and
have met some of the people involved but I would enjoy reading the account.
Can you provide a link?

--

Roger Long


Just kidding: I have great respect for a boat that Ferenc Mate can't
insult and that survived The Perfect Storm without a crew (google
"Perfect Storm and Katana" for the REAL story...never leave the boat
except to step up into the liferaft!)

R.

Katari - and the original author removed it from the web. You'll have to do
some extra research to find the story - but, aside from it's being very
defensive and self serving by the captain who let the two girls get on the
radio, it's a pretty good read.

L8R

Skip

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
I didn't get a hit on that google suggestion. I know the real story and
have met some of the people involved but I would enjoy reading the
account.
Can you provide a link?

--

Roger Long


Just kidding: I have great respect for a boat that Ferenc Mate can't
insult and that survived The Perfect Storm without a crew (google
"Perfect Storm and Katana" for the REAL story...never leave the boat
except to step up into the liferaft!)

R.

Oops. Satori...

http://world.std.com/~kent/satori/

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
I didn't get a hit on that google suggestion. I know the real story and
have met some of the people involved but I would enjoy reading the
account.
Can you provide a link?

--

Roger Long


Just kidding: I have great respect for a boat that Ferenc Mate can't
insult and that survived The Perfect Storm without a crew (google
"Perfect Storm and Katana" for the REAL story...never leave the boat
except to step up into the liferaft!)

R.

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:42:15 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

I didn't get a hit on that google suggestion. I know the real story and
have met some of the people involved but I would enjoy reading the account.
Can you provide a link?

My error: Katana's the name of another boat that hit a storm and lived
to sail again. The boat's name was "Satori" and here's the relevant
link:

http://world.std.com/~kent/satori/

R.

With the benefit of some professional involvement in sailing vessel safety
and accident investigation, I found his account quite convincing. I would
fault him only for failure to control the use of the radio.

--

Roger Long



"rhys" wrote in message
...
My error: Katana's the name of another boat that hit a storm and lived
to sail again. The boat's name was "Satori" and here's the relevant
link:

http://world.std.com/~kent/satori/

R.

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:20:29 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

With the benefit of some professional involvement in sailing vessel safety
and accident investigation, I found his account quite convincing. I would
fault him only for failure to control the use of the radio.

Yes, that's what I got from it. He was good on sailing the boat and
keeping his OWN nerve, but for whatever reason (bad judgment in taking
newbie crew aboard in the first place?) he could neither convey this
to the crew nor control them by example.

Whatever the dynamics were (and I can't blame anyone inexperienced for
losing it in appalling conditions), it's a tribute to the Westsail 32
that it rode out the storm and was salvaged by its owner (dumb luck!)
to continue to have a good life as a famous little tank of a sailboat.

R.