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Rich Wilson, relata este incidente al apagar por accidente el piloto automático en medio de una buena castaña:

". The boat crashes off of, or gets crushed by, a breaking sea, or whatever, a big crash, and my finger moves off the barograph, across the keel canting control panel, and stabs the Standby button on the autopilot, which is about 8 inches away, which turns off the autopilot, so the boat then crash tacks, everything in the cabin comes flying across the cabin, the boat lays over on the other side, 4 tons of ballast water on the wrong side, 3 tons of keel bulb on the wrong side, the mainsail and boom are held by the preventer, the storm jib is backwinded into the daggerboard, the boat lies at 50 degrees of heel, and sits there, going sideways, making a bow wave with the side of the boat."


me ha sorprendido lo de la retenida, yo creía que en regata y más en este tipo de barcos no se montaba retenida. ¿es así o lo de preventer se refiere a otra cosa?