Yacht dismasted: What to do differently?

8:09 PM Mon 27 Sep 2010 GMT

'RNLI shot of the incident' .

'The best mistakes to learn by are other people's.' They were exiting the river, almost to the sea, being guided by navigation markers. They had just put up their genoa. Suddenly there was a torrential downpour, reducing visibility to almost nothing. Moments later, they hit a Marker Post, snagged the rigging, the boat slewed, and the mast came down. The question that might occupy the minds of all active sailors is: What could they (should I in the future) have done differently? It's a true story, and happened this week in the Lymington River in the UK when the yacht ...

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by Sail-World Cruising