World Sailing Report on Bora Gulari Accident

Here's the World Sailing report on the accident that led to Bora Gulari losing several fingers.
WorldSailingInvestigationReportNacra17IncidentAugust2017

Wrapping that control line round your hand to get a better grip is a *really* bad idea!

Basic old fashioned seamanship. Don't stand in a bight or a coil, don't take turn that will become a hitch.  

Terrible injury, I hate ropes they're bad enough when travelling at the low speeds we do, but at foiling speeds?

Someone needs to work on a better system of controlling what we do than having to wrap bloody rope round our hands, it's primitive, no other windsport does it, windsurfers use the boom kites use a bar.

Our feet on pedals would be more efficient, all the mechanisms they must employ to get the other foils working, there should be a better system so that in the event of an accident like that everyone gets thrown clear and even then they are not out of the woods, they could easily hit the damn wires holding the masts up.

Yotties should leave speed to the disciplines geared for it or design better safety systems.

A tragedy to that guy he's very talented I'm sure I watched a video of him doing well in a foiling moth event in Hood River, what a nighmare, gutted for him.

Surely the need to wrap a sheet or control line around your hand indicates ... insufficient hand grip, not enough purchases, not enough grip of the ratchet, an inadequate cleat or that the line is to thin.

Originally posted by Do Different Mozzy you've always talked good technical sense but really? Cut resistant gloves, get real, a wrap will rip bits off not cut them off gloves ain't saving you, only good practice will help.

Edited by mozzy - 23 Nov 17 at 10:04am