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For the benefit of those here I will repeat what I said on another forum. This guy was at my marina a few days earlier and I talked with him for a while and helped dock his very light corsair 31 trimaran. He was quite experienced having sailed from mass. to Tortola in 6 days last fall. He told me his boat could NOT weather a storm at sea and thus he relied on the right weather forecast and relied on his speed to out run anything that might develop. He had racing mylar sails and obviously had a different plan than most...but my impression was of a well prepared sailor who knew his boat well and liked to sail... fast. I don't know what to make of the conflicting weather reports but I do not think he would have gone out in that sort of weather given his comments to me. The news media often gets it wrong. My guess is that he was trying to sail fast and some short steep seas and a hard puff caught him by surprise. Glad to know he is OK and not a statistic.
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