I spoke with someone on a cat about 250 yards from the
boat that sank. They were hit with a 50 MPH plus gust that blew out their
jib. The
accident boat was knocked flat. They watched the entire sinking. It appeared the
sails scooped a lot of
water and were not released. The boat sank in about 1 minute. The boat was re floated about a year later. It had no real damage and what is amazing is that they were able to restart the
engine after towing the boat over to Peter and draining the
oil ect... They motored it over to Tortola and I think it was cleaned up and
sold after a
overhaul. Sounds like a long term
electrical nightmare unless every wire was replaced.