I'm liking the lazy-boy recliner the helm is using. Hmm... wonder if I can get one of those on my boat.
Interesting linkage to the rudder. Never saw them move until the very end. Didn't see the boom move much either. Very strange...
When Spindrift went over this past summer, I think I read they use some kind of hydraulic sheet control that doesn't react very quickly in emergency.
Part of me wondered if they didn't do that on purpose looking at the lack of reactions to that puff...but there's no way those guys would have taken such a bad fall if that were the case. Just watch the skipper closely. As he finally bails out of his lazy boy he takes what looks like a heck of a fall and I couldn't find him again.
