A couple of corrections

1720 Go Ferret owner clarifies a couple of points

Reader Andrew McIrvine, the owner of the 1720 Go Ferret would lke to make the following comments in answer to our article ' Garda Crash ' published on 13 September:

Thank you for your feature on this. As the owner of the injured 'Go Ferret' I would be grateful for a couple of corrections.

Go Ferret, on starboard tack, was holed on the port side as shown in the photographs.

We did want to keep the boats together but the conditions were not calm and the grinding was working its way back to the shrouds and chainplate - and it looked as if the rigs were going to come down.

What they could have done was put a rib either side of 'Incognito's' bow with a line between which would have kept the hole out of the water. They were sitting ok with all the crew at the stern until the rib started to tow them by the bow fitting, after which they filled up and sank! There was of course a major problem of communication as none of the rescue teams spoke English - and we spoke no Italian.

Best wishes

Andrew McIrvine