I realize I have used “sail plan” to mean two different things. In the first instance, I meant the amount of sail that the Concordia was carrying when she was knocked down.

In the second instance, I was referring to the very common practice of communicating one’s itinerary to the local coast guard in advance of a trip. One local official commented that the rescue could have happened more quickly, had the coast guard had a sail plan for the Concordia.

Elizabeth

I keep scanning the newspapers, hoping for a fuller explanation of what happened to the Concordia. However, since all hands were saved, it seems unlikely that there will be an in-depth investigation.

My first reaction, in seeing the photographs of the Concordia, was that the sail plan on this vessel was massive. If she had all of her sails up when she was knocked down, it is hardly surprising that she did not right herself. Does anyone else find this massive sail plan odd?

I also wondered why the rescue took so long, when according to the papers, the captain deployed an emergency response beacon. I understand that the Concordia had not been filing sail plans.

Please keep posting information as you receive it.
This is an important story.
I shudder to think what the outcome could have been.
Elizabeth