You forgot too-flimsy engineering for the conditions.

c a marchaj & Dave Gerr both spoke against too-flimsy engineering, & the industry generally doesn’t care ( boats which disappear don’t make headlines: only ones noticed to be disappearing do, right? )

That boat needs to, if fixed, NEVER go into conditions as rough as what it was in.

It may well have been oversold/under-engineered for what the marketing said it was for.

Please consider investing in both Dave Gerr’s “Elements of Boat Strength” & a book named “Surveying Yachts And Small Craft”,

and then earn enough understanding to figure out how sound your boat is.

Those 2 books cost drastically less than a new boat, & they’ll help you in any future boat-purchases you make, too.

Warning, though: nearly no boats are up to Gerr’s scantlings ( thicknesses of different areas of a hull, for all who haven’t been dredged through boatish lingo before ).

( other authors worth investing-in: Nigel Calder & Tom Cunliffe )

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