OK, I reiterate my statement that they left their brains behind. There is nothing so hard to right as a boat without its mast attached.
I don't think i understand this statement.
It IS hard to right without a mast?
if so, why?
Without the mast, the boat has two,
very stable positions: Upside down and rightside up. Getting from one to the other is
very difficult.
With the mast, even if it has some water in it (which when submerged has neutral bouyancy) provides a critical intermediate stable position - capsized.
The only boat I've seen righted on the water from turtle w/o a mast is a Hobie 14. It took two guys (me and Greg Raybon - about 360 lbs total) standing on one hull with the righting line over the other hull and we had to "bounce" it over in one quick motion. You'd need probably four or five people to do that with a Hobie 18.
