Lew Hodgett wrote:
Jim wrote:

I can't understand why the anchors are still aboard and the dinghy is
in the davits. First thing I would have done was to run all the
anchors I could find as far out as possible and try to horse the thing
head to the swell and wind.


The seas were such that the dinghy would probably have swamped before
you got 100 ft out.

It is a beautiful boat, but not worth a human life.

Lew
Lew;
It wasn't that rough that day. The dinghy is a 13 foot Avon rib with a
15/20 horse outboard.

I have the same dinghy, with a 25.

That boat will handle a lot more than anything that they could have
found that day.