Sourdough:
Excuse the threadcreap, but after the event, I read Chesipeke by Mitchner, and he describes the tendancy for Baltimore Clippers to burry their bow in a chapter. The new Pride has more freeboard and is as a result safer but less rakish. She remains in my mind's eye a lovely haunting immage. I was building a currach in the Philidelphia Maritime Museum's workshop on the water. One of the servivors worked in the shop, nice fellow, I don't recall his name, but the chance that any were saved was a miracle. Let's hope and pray for miracle for our Russian shipmates.
Larry