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I am not trying to throw stones at your skipper. We have all been in his shoes where we, as helmsmen needed to make a snap decision and we may not have made the right one. Its easy to sit here with the luxury of hindsight and say, he may have crashed tacked unnecessarily. That was not the point of my post at all. It was more to talk through items to be considered in response to your comment, " I've run the event over and over in my head thinking about what I might have done to avoid the situation."
We have all had 'bad days out on the Bay." The good news here is that no one was hurt and the damage sounds repairable. Race boats are simply very complex tools, and tools can be fixed.
Lastly, as I tell the folks who work for me, don't beat yourself up, there are plenty of folks out there that will beat you up for free. ;-)
Good luck out there and be safe,
Jeff
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