The situation with the Sunnucks team deciding to trailer their boat to the next stop, even though they had replaced the damaged hull, is interesting, and it illustrates why the Worrell 1000 rules kept evolving over the years to cover various situations.

In the Sunnucks case, I have heard that they are going to be given a time penalty for trailering their boat to the next checkpoint, and the penalties range from a high of 8 hours to a low of 30 minutes, depending upon who you talk to. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

It will also be interesting to find out exactly what they hit that caused their daggerboard to split the hull open.

And it will also be interesting to find out whether the hull sank as a result. Early reports on this kind of thing are unreliable, so maybe it was just a little crack in the hull rather than "ripped wide open." Let's wait to get the whole story before jumping to conclusions.