décès pendant la Morgan cup

Il y a longtemps en Med 2 morts sur un mème bateau: un disparu passé par dessus bord, l'autre noyé suspendu à son harnais.

il serait intéressant de savoir quelles ont été dans chacun des treize cas quelles ont été les causes de l'accident, et comment il aurait été possible d'éviter l'accident.

Bonsoir,

J'etais a bord du Reflex 38 "Panther" (sister ship de "Lion") lorsque nous avons entendu le Mayday a la VHF au large de l'ile de wight. Ci-joint le message de notre skipper Neal Kelshaw :

"This weekend’s Morgan Cup race to Cherbourg started with gale warnings in force and conditions of F8 all night (steady 34 knots) and gusts approaching severe gale at 40kn at times during the first half of the crossing.

Sadly, Chris Reddish, the owner of Lion, fell overboard and drowned on Friday as the fleet was passing south of St. Catherine’s point, Isle Of Wight. We heard the man overboard incident on Panther at the time which happened during the worst weather of the whole night, Chris’s body was recovered but pronounced dead at the scene by a qualified doctor who was a member of the crew. I understand that the details of the incident were that Chris was clipped on at the bow when he fell overboard, and despite being tethered when he was recovered had stopped breathing and could not be revived. Lion is currently impounded by the police at Portsmouth to where she was escorted by the Bembridge lifeboat.

Many of our club members have enjoyed racing on Lion and some indeed knew Chris personally. Lion was racing with an 8 – strong crew and this was part of their Fastnet campaign. I have asked Allie Smith at Sailing Logic to pass on our club’s commiserations to his family and friends.

Of the original entrants of 100, 30 did not start, of 70 starters, 40 only finished.
All crew on Panther finished safely, Panther finished 19th Saturday morning, returning Sunday.

Neal".

Toutes nos pensees vont a Chris et aux membres de sa famille.

aurelien.