US Sailing Investigators Recommendations
Ron Trossbach, the lead investigator for US Sailing in the Rambler 100 incident, recommended the following changes to US Sailing’s Offshore Special Regulations (OSR)...
Safety at Sea Part III: Rambler 100 capsize
Shortly after 1740 local time on Aug. 15, 2011, Rambler 100-touted as the fastest monohull super-maxi on the planet and representing millions of dollars...
US Sailing Investigator’s Recommendations
Ron Trossbach, the lead investigator for US Sailing in the Rambler 100 incident, recommended the following changes to US Sailing’s Offshore Special Regulations (OSR)...
Lessons learned
Ron Trossbach, head of the US Sailing investigation into the Rambler 100 accident, offered the following lessons that sailors can take away from the...
Rambler 100 Recommendations
The crew of Rambler 100 made the following recommendations/observations regarding safety equipment. The recommendations were taken from crew statements provided to US Sailing and...
US Sailing Recommendations
The US Sailing report makes several specific recommendations to prevent future accidents such as the one that involved WingNuts, among them:Race StandardsRace organizers should...
Tether recall likely no factor
In 2010, West Marine voluntarily recalled two tether models (SKU #9553512 and #9553504), the same model tethers worn by Mark Morley and Suzanne Bickel...
PS Analysis: The 2011 WingNuts Capsize
In the wake of the US Sailing report, the Mackinac Race Committee moved to eliminate the stability measurement loophole that allowed boats like the...
Safety Lessons Learned Part 1
Psychologist Carl Jung might have called it synchronicity, or a meaningful coincidence: three highly publicized sailing accidents occurring in close succession-one for each month...
US Sailing Recommendations
The US Sailing report makes seven specific recommendations, several calling for important research into ways to prevent future accidents such as the one that...
Abandon Ship! Coast Guard Rescue Beneteau 523 in the Atlantic
What would cause the captain and crew to abandon ship in the Atlantic ocean? There was no sailboat disaster here, but a coast guard...
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