And if we removed all the government regulations and rules and laws and licencing requirements that we have introduced since 1970?
Would we still see a 5% increase?
Or would we start to slide back to the good old days with 20 Times more fatalities on the roads (not 20% more).
Anyway getting back to something useful and on point it looks like this historical event twenty years ago might also be a keel loss situation although the hull design doesn't look like one of the usual suspects. Anyone know anything more?
It's often argued that faster yachts are safer owing to the fact you can reach a sheltered harbour quicker. It appears that perhaps we've reached a crossroad in that old argument, with lighter faster compromising vessel integrity
Side by side for sale, one boat with a "Sea worthiness Certificate" stating the keel wont break if you hit something and the other boat saying "good luck" I know which one would sell the most.
Anyone done the numbers for rally and race cars before safety cages and roll bars.
Just saying.
As for everything else, we don't all pick the same girlfriend/boyfriend.
As Shaggy, will tell you I have sailed most things, and as I have posted before, my favourite most seaworthy boat is a Sydney 38, which of course satisfies few of the criteria discussed here.
As a last comments, new keels tend not to fall off just as new aircraft tend to crash less.
Every keel only has so many cycles built in!