I dont think swimming is a high priority when you capsize a 60 footer solo. Not being knocked senseless is probably #1, getting out of the boat/from the nets is probabl #3. Getting back on the boat and using the safety gear is probably #3.

If you fall overboard from a 60 footer at speed, sailing solo, you are fishbait.. And there is not much point in swimming unless there is land close by.


My father worked on tank boats most of his life. He told a story where they picked up the chief from a gas tanker who had exploded. This guy was in the middle of the Atlantic, swimming for the african coast.. The odds of spotting a swimmer in the middle of the ocean is as good as zero.