Not One, but Two Boards

Judging from a quick glance, it looks as though this photo depicts Greg and Debbie Dorland’s Lake Tahoe-based Catana 52 Escapade making a bid to become the first multihull with canting daggerboards. But photos can be deceiving, as it’s actually a shot of one of the two — count ’em! — daggerboards they broke while sailing upwind in rough weather from the boat’s summer home in Curaçao to St. Barth in the French West Indies. The good news is that replacement daggerboards from Catana weren’t that expensive — just $9,800 each, plus shipping, from France.

Once the couple got to St. Barth, they realized that things could have been worse. After all, look what happened to the catamaran Free Spirit during Hurricane Gonzalo, which claimed dozens of boats on the little island this summer.