Capsizing a Bolger Chebacco at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

I apologise for the poor video, circumstances beyond my control. The video shows Jamie Orr's Bolger Chebacco "Wayward Lass" being capsized and righted. You can see that at 90deg the boat was easy to re-right and it came up almost empty of water. The agile righter got back on board without even getting his feet wet! However it was a different story when the boat was inverted to 180degs. Although the crew got the boat up again unaided it took some time. And the boat was then completely awash. A 6000gal/hr pump on the RIB took about 20 minutes to pump it out. As Jamie said "had it been for real and had I inverted it completely I would have died" Nevertheless, a very good demonstration. It showed that even bigger boats can be crew righted, but you do need to think about adding flotation somewhere if you want to survive a capsize. It was a fitting finale to my talk which you can read here http://sailingcatamarans.com/index.php/articles/41-general-articles-technical/477-capsize-demos-talk-at-wbf