Corsair Cruze 970 Capsizes

[Todd R]

See this story and photo of a Corsair Cruze 970 capsizing?

https://sailinganarchy.com/

Any ideas on how this could happen?   Main and Jib only, flat water, bows are out of the water, no white caps visible.  Is there so much flotation in the front of the amas now, that the back of the ama goes underwater first?

[Jim Thompson]

I think the picture is a stock picture. And yes going upwind the sail bow up. I suspect when more details than the story has comes out they were pushing the boat hard downwind or were trying to beam reach with to much sail

Jim

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[Peter Lucas]

That photo may be unrelated to the capsize.

Would be interested to hear about the circumstances of the capsize. Most sport trimaran capsizes include a race, a spinnaker and a building breeze. Even as the true wind speed increases to speeds that would preclude use of a spinnaker, the crew feels only a modest increase in apparent wind speed. All feels wonderful until something, anything happens to disturb the precarious balance.

If you hear more, please share.

Peter Lucas

F/C 31 UC "Flexible Flyer"

San Diego

[Vincent DePillis]

I think the picture is a stock shot of some kind, not the boat getting ready to go over.

Please do post links if you find any detailed account.

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On Jul 17, 2019, at 10:26 AM, Todd R <todd.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

[jeffoaklief]

Before the Fujin capsize I would have stuck to Jim's comments.  However, Fujin did capsize upwind in a sudden heavy (40knot possibly) gust.  They apparently were cracked off a bit... but not close to reaching... and did not get the sails released in time.  I did read that the capsize in this case might have been the result of a squall that came through... have not seen any info about the wind speed yet.

It will be interesting to hear what happened... nice to know that everyone is ok. 

Jeff