As I said back on page 2 of this way too long winded non-sense of a thread:

I don't know what their objective was for the day, maybe it was; "Let's see what it takes to flip this thing!"

In my opinion (and it is MINE, you go get your own!) a true Professional Crew would take a new boat right up to the limit, then pull it back just a little bit, and slowly work their way up to "Ohh Sheet, back off!" and not go straight to "Now We're Fkd!"

I'm going to assume they are the best and they know what they are doing. I'm going to assume the designers and builder knew what wind and loads to build to.


So I'm going to assume something -unusual- happened, ie. someting broke or "The Gust from Hell" came along and knocked them over.

But until we hear from someone onboard as to exactly what happened, I'll assume they were not trying to push it to (and over) the limit just to see what would happen.

When it comes to racing, to win, first you have to finish. You don't have to push it to the limit, just a little harder than the other guy.