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Ericson33
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Initially Posted - 05/22/2007 :  21:23:09  Show Profile  Visit Ericson33's Homepage
Andy, on the General Forum you were talking about a Capri 25 that had gone down, the crew was experienced in heavy air, can you please find out more of what happened. I am guessing that the water went into thru the hatch boards or lockers........

Guess it's time to finish the locker liners for the Mainsheet.

Thanks for any info - this is important to all of us.
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hwy61sail
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Response Posted - 05/23/2007 :  12:12:31  Show Profile
I suspect that Andy can provide more information. This is what I heard.

The scheduled race was abandon due to high winds. A number of boats decided to practice heavy air sailing in front of the club. The Capri that sank ran into a problem that resulted in the boat going turtle (Hopefully Andy can provide the details of how that happened). The boat was still floating and the people on the scene decided to right the boat. Unfortunately no one checked to make sure that the hatch boards were in place and that the lockers were closed. With weight on the keel the boat completed the roll, but with large openings unsecured, the result was that the boat simply took on to much water during the maneuver and immiediately sank upon being righted.
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existentialsailor
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Response Posted - 05/23/2007 :  14:55:34  Show Profile
That's a damn shame, no one was hurt apparently?
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Stew_334
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Response Posted - 05/31/2007 :  00:34:08  Show Profile  Visit Stew_334's Homepage
First post on here. I sail with Andy, and was present during the rescue. Catapult III was sailing near a shoreline, beating to weather. My suspicion is that the crew was all on the weather rail. Breeze went nosey and she auto-tacked. With no-one to release the genoa, she was knocked down hard, possibly past 90 degrees. Lazarette lockers were not latched (apparently they had been repaired/replaced during the off-season), and the low-side lazarette swung open and flooded. This caused the boat to continue to roll to the turtled position. It seems their hatchboards were either in during the roll, or escaped the cabin as she sank, as they were recovered from the scene by the crew of Jalapeno. All crew were recovered within 1 minute after she sank, as 2 speedboats responded to Jalapeno's distress call. Other than being cold and wet, there were no injuries, and all crew were wearing PFDs.
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existentialsailor
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Response Posted - 05/31/2007 :  05:13:30  Show Profile
Thanks for filling in the details Stew and welcome to the forum.
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Andy_334
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Response Posted - 06/01/2007 :  22:44:52  Show Profile
H61s and Stew hit it right on the nuts. Nothing more to add.

The most impressive element of the whole story, is that they were back on the race course less than a week later, and have been kicking butt since.

Stew.......don't even think about it!
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Andy_334
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Response Posted - 06/10/2007 :  07:54:56  Show Profile
The experience did not seem to hurt Catapult too much. They took both bullets in the first day of the American Diabetes Regatta at WYC this weekend.

http://wyc.org/Results/SeriesOngoingResults.asp?Series_Id=11
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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 06/12/2007 :  16:37:56  Show Profile  Visit SailCO26's Homepage
Nice! Their only bad race got tossed. Interesting that you throw one out in a 4-race regatta.
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Andy_334
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Response Posted - 06/13/2007 :  21:18:12  Show Profile
Yep, they raced one hell of a regatta! Congratulations to them!
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