[QUOTE=cappy208;131149]It appears to me that the drag of the drogue was more effective than anyone realized. (on either vessel) Thinking as if the yacht was moored to a mooring ball, no one would attempt to ‘cut between’. But it appears the ship bisecting the painter was a terrible idea. No one (even now, by the owners comments) seems to accept that the sea anchor was the cause of the problems, not the lack of lifeboat use.
The ultimate rescue sort of negated the whole topic in my mind. The Kim Jacob was trying to lend assistance, And the Yachters needed to get removed from the boat. Job 1, accomplished. It may not have been pretty, but it worked.[/QUOTE]
I agree that lifeboats are not the issue here.
But, a couple of years ago it occurred to me that the phrase “learning things the hard way” implied that there was an easy way (or at least easier way) to learn things. I have since learned that this is the idea behind the concept of “lessons learned”. After an incident a mariner can either say, “oh well, shit happens” or think about what went wrong.
Many mariners see this as just Monday morning quarterbacking or a game to prove that they are better mariners with their keyboards then the crew involved are when they are at sea but I think valuable lessons can be learned, “going forward” as the office likes to say.