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The boat builder has a story about the event and says it plans to attempt to salvage the boat. If the crew left an operating SPOT on board it should be easy to track.
Rogue Wave - Aeroyacht
I agree with Barry that there was a basic flaw in the boat if the both rudders failed in these conditions. Perhaps it is the case that the failure was the lack of the pin on the one rudder post, causing the rudders to be out of sync with each other. I can imagine that might produce unusual forces as compared to both rudders doing the same thing at the same time. |
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Capt. Hank Schmitt is a professional delivery captain with over 200,000 ocean miles and over 50 passages along the same route. Hank was carefully chosen by the owner as he is a very experienced catamaran sailor.
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It should be noted that the rudders of the boat were built of 1.5 inch solid stainless round tube welded to a closed framework of 2″ wide by 1/4″ thick stainless bars with (2) vertical and (3) horizontal members. Unfortunately no rudder is designed to suddenly lurch into reverse and have 10 Tons of torque applied to them.
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