Les air-bags existent pour les voitures...pourquoi pas en tête de mât pour les multis !!! C.D.

I remember sailing past this upturned trimaran, after the crew had been recovered. I was on a Moody 33. Quite a few of the boats entered had not started or had retired by then. First time I've ever seen the photos. It was blowing some 25-27 kts on the eastbound leg.

Surprised the main was sheeted

If you race perfomance multihulls and you have never capsized? Then you haven't really raced performance multihulls. Which is fine. It's just a bit rich to then criticise those that do and who inevitably push it over the limit. That's racing. Christ, even Ben Ainsley and Jimmy Spithill tip theirs over every now and again.

Atleast it didnt sink.

Was she recovered?

Spinnakers should be outlawed. No one knows when to use them, and more importantly, when not to.

Dump the halyard for the kite, let the main sheet go. Looks the kooks were intentionally trying to sink that Dragonfly. Also maybe the leeward ama had the hatch open as it appears to be full of water . I would not have paid them a cent of insurance. That is just negligent sailing..

Wit those seas why would you be carrying so much sail ?

It needs an automatic system to loosen the sails when it senses the boat tipping.

Over powered, lifted a hull and kept going…. The end…. Well done.

thats a lot of sail up. wow

Most annoying transition I've ever seen. It was difficult to see exactly what was happening because of that weird special effect.

Should they have had the centerboard up ?

Darn it bro that sucks. Seen it happen and it’s never petty. To the armchair critics: it’s called racing guys, shit happens fast. In the last 2 Americas Cups all finalists and winners have capsized at some point in the campaign, and no team that hasn’t capsized has made finals. Why? Call it boundary knowledge.

Just reef. You'll still make the same speed.

Too much sail for the wind will do this. Obviously.

All round poor seamanship. Too much sail, too much ego. Hope someone learned a lesson.

should of got a corsair

All I can say is, SAD 😥

I think they underestimated the full-potential with using their spinnakers as though spinnakers primarily intent at low gust of wind as yet the spinnakers not to be the ideal solutions in the lightweight boats

Geezus

Its quite clear seeing the sail trim what happened and final touch wind on tramp effect - easily preventable on any boat by just blowing all sheets fast and early enough - of course knowing your boat is crucial to anticipate/sense you're on/near that edge - sure a gust can suprise you knock you over in second - so having eyes to weather calling gusts helps and sheets in hand ready to release in an instant - in a race its faster to trim in again than recover from a broach or capsize - says I with 5 decades+ sailing-racing-bluewater deliverys-charter skipper and former AK halibut longliner - no armchair here LOL

Transitions between photos made me want to vomit.

Why they dont pulled the spinmaker,its dangerous for the upwind.

Brilliant shots it's taught me something so important, I thankyou 😊 I am so glad they got out OK. We all Learn from our mistakes, those who don't- don't improve - those who don't try harder next time & Learn for that experience or from others making mistakes- never achieves perfection. Those who think they know it all, usually know nothing, or has never pushed the Envelope- & survived- in my experience- never judge people on their mistakes- Learn from them - thank them for their knowledge & experience of making mistakes for you to Learn at no cost to yourselves. So I say thankyou to photographer & to skipper & crew - 🤠🙈🙉🙊👍

Why didn't they let the main sheet completely go and why did they hang onto the Spinniker so long?

Great photo's a visual lesson to us all. What I don't get is how they managed to release the kites sheet but failed to release the main sheet. I can only imagine some one froze.Better trained crew called for.I certainly would not be putting out in those conditions with crew that were inexperienced in dealing with them and definitely would not fly a kite if I had. How many seconds do your pics cover?

Love some of these comments from the armchair brigade who have never been in a trimaran let alone turtled in one. Guys, things happen quick and its hard to walk uphill hanging on while trying to get leverage to let a sheet go. I know this, been there. Its the kite that did them in. A masthead kite and when the bow staked the center of effort went straight forward and over the top digging it in more. Setting a kite at about 3/4 mast height (ie a smaller one) would have reduced this problem. As for letting the main go, sure, that would also move the center of effort well forward too. Just what you want, right? I think not. Sheet it in and bring the draft aft. As for those lead mine lovers, sure it may have come back up, but having also had a J boat go down under me with all the washing up I can tell you that I'd rather be on an upside down multi that floats than swimming as the boat goes down under me.

Spinnakers are for lite wind sailing,they were their own worst enemy in the accident

As an experienced racer this type of boat with this much sail up needs a crack crew that’s “on it”. I love the effort, it must have been a great ride to the crash site. Lesson? Know your limitations, regarding type of boat and amount of sail.

I find the comments more amusing than the video and is evidence that most KZfaq commenters have never sailed out of their armchair.

A good lesson here on how to turn a potentially good video into the most annoying video. Could you not have just made a video out of the photos? Unbearable to watch--after 20-seconds I just jumped forward.

I wonder? After all was said and done, how much damage was there to the boat and the rigging? Was the boat subsequently repaired or was it taken as a total loss?

Powerpoint is back, wow

Keep telling yourself you did nothing wrong and wanted to continue "as fast as you could." Not so fast now since you capsized. Your arrogance and stupidity are unbelievable. When the lee ama is submerged past 50%, any competent trimaran sailor would know it's time to reef!!!!! But try to convince yourself and others that you were right. You weren't, but if it makes you feel better and don't have the capacity to admit you were wrong, I feel sorry for anyone else who would ever crew with you. From the first picture I knew you were in deep shit. Why didn't you?

video footage doesn't all seem to be from 2016 RTIR

First of all, no one was on the windward hull, both sitting there in the cockpit. Then stupid skipper didn't dump the mainsheet. Then stupid crew didn't dump the spin sheet. Probably nub.

so he's using the water current to sail ?

Amazed that the mast didn't break. Even more amazed that they had the sheets cleated in that weather. Most amazed that the couldn't dump the sheets before they went swimming...

stuppid skipper

But you notice the Dragonfly didnt sink. Thats one of the company's stated safety features. It will not sink. Period.

That zoom in effect is very annoying!

Nice thing about a Trimaran, if you turtle the boat you can still float.

These videos make me wonder about two things. First, why not have a quick release pull line for the top of the kite? Pull the line, and the top of the kite is free from the halyard. Of course the second is a design big design flaw. The trampolines should be made from open webbing, so they will spill water. Once the ama dug in, the trampoline plowed under the water. The windward trampoline was caught by the wind, which only made matters worse. The top of the ama is flat, which also causes it to be buried under the water. It needs to be rounded off so it doesn't dig in.

main sheet??? sorry, but they reacted like they didnt sail this boat. Shame for the boat. too slow...

Did they salvage the boat?

mainsheet cleated all the the time, centerplate fully down and did not release the spinnaker sheet. No further comment!

Nice photos, but I can't think of a more disturbing transition effect.

Can you flood one pontoon put airbag on mast and refloat ?If this is possible I would not be leaving my boat .