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Dusk was coming on and I was at the end of my tether and thinking to myself, “If this continues, I can’t keep going like this. And there’s no one else that can steer this damn boat, so we’re in serious trouble.”
—Ed Psaltis, Skipper, AFR Midnight Rambler
Arthur Psaltis watches the boat’s digital readout as the wind speed races from thirty-five knots, to forty, and then forty-five knots. At sixty knots, the readout suddenly goes blank. Arthur stares at the empty screen. Then it hits him: The metal fitting that holds the wind meter on top of the mast has been torn off, rendering the instrument useless.
The next blast of wind flattens the boat, driving its mast into the water and flooding the cockpit. ...
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