Not An Enviable Position

[Photoboy]

Not the place you want to be....

"This sailboat left King Harbor in extremely windy conditions and was unable to turn around and get back behind the breakwater. They ended up getting caught by a large wave and tossed into the pier. All four passengers made it to shore."

Jason Wells

[IOR Geezer]

Something tells me the crew don't pick up the phone anymore when the skipper calls!

[Prince of Whales]

Martin 242's always pushing the boundaries!

[Buzz Light Beer]

Appears to me that they are over early

[El Capitan]

Looks like the jib sheet got all wrapped up and they could not sheet in to avoid the whole mess.

Bummer, hope they can recover, I imagine the boat took a fatal beating.

[psycho tiller]

That had to be the worst 5 or 10 minutes for the guys on that boat leading up to the crash. Dead in the water, hoping what you know is about to happen isn't going to happen. "Maybe if we just get up real fast and walk away no one will notice."

[Carl Spackler]

No outboard?

No anchor?

[Dirty Sanchez]

Woulda loved to be a fly on the wall at that evening's debriefing.

[Photoboy]

The vessel in question a Martin 242 Bad Wolf sails regularly out of the King Harbor YC and was participating in a twilight series event. From what we gather winds were light at the start and ramped up as race progressed... It appear they that attempted to reduce sail and things went south in a hurry... If you watch the video closely, you will notice the person forward was trying to unjam the jib sheets...

[Bitchin Bow Dude]

That second angle looks terrifying!

[Photoboy]

Bad Wolf's Bad Route



Taking a closer look at the route that Bad Wolf would have been taking after sailing in the
Twilight Series at King Harbor YC, one can get a better appreciation of the pickle
the boat and crew were in once things went south, so to speak....






With NW winds that had jumped from a benign 10-15 knots at the beginning of racing that evening,
then ramping up to 25 -30, it appear the crew attempted to reduce sail area outside the harbor,
and had issues with main and while trying to resolve that mess, the flogging jib got knotted up
and could not be fixed in time for it to provide any headway. With a sizable westerly swell pushing
the boat towards the pier, they were screwed... Not sure where the outboard might have been at this point,
or if they could have even got it started in time...