{"id":70,"date":"2012-04-18T16:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regattagear.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-04-18T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:54:11","slug":"low-speed-chase-loses-five-crew-members-in-south-farallon-race-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regattagear.com\/blog\/low-speed-chase-loses-five-crew-members-in-south-farallon-race-accident","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Low Speed Chase\u2019 Loses Five Crew Members in South Farallon Race Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regattagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Low-Speed-Chase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" title=\"Low Speed Chase\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regattagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Low-Speed-Chase.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regattagear.com\/\">Regatta Gear<\/a> team would like to extend our condolences to the families of the fine crew of the vessel Low Speed Chase, slammed by waves and pushed onto rocks during a race around South Farallon Island off San Francisco, Sat., April 14.\u00a0 Five of the eight-member crew perished in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The boat\u2019s owner, James &#8220;Jay&#8221; Bradford, 41, of Chicago, survived along with Bryan Chong and Nick Vos, who suffered a broken leg.\u00a0 Rescuers recovered the body of Marc Kasanin.\u00a0 The missing sailors \u2013 Alan Cahill, Alexis Busch, Elmer Morrissey and Jordan Fromm \u2013 are all presumed to have drowned.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Low Speed Chase was a 38-foot (11.5-meter) racing and cruising sailboat.\u00a0 It was one of 49 yachts competing on Saturday in the 105<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the Full Crew Farallones race. The 54-mile, daylong regatta \u2013 sponsored by the San Francisco Yacht Club \u2013 starts in San Francisco Bay, passes through the Golden Gate and rounds a craggy outpost known as South Farallon Island.<\/p>\n<p>As Low Speed Chase approached the island, large wave initially swept four crew members into the ocean and when those remaining aboard tried to turn the craft around, another wave tossed three more people into the water and pushed the boat onto rocks, where it foundered.<\/p>\n<p>Life vests were mandatory for every yacht in the race.\u00a0 The sailors who were rescued were wearing inflatable life vests and had on cold-weather gear, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regattagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Low-Speed-Chase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" title=\"Low Speed Chase\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regattagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Low-Speed-Chase.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regattagear.com\/\">Regatta Gear<\/a> team would like to extend our condolences to the families of the fine crew of the vessel Low Speed Chase, slammed by waves and pushed onto rocks during a race around South Farallon Island off San Francisco, Sat., April 14.\u00a0 Five of the eight-member crew perished in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The boat\u2019s owner, James &#8220;Jay&#8221; Bradford, 41, of Chicago, survived along with Bryan Chong and Nick Vos, who suffered a broken leg.\u00a0 Rescuers recovered the body of Marc Kasanin.\u00a0 The missing sailors \u2013 Alan Cahill, Alexis Busch, Elmer Morrissey and Jordan Fromm \u2013 are all presumed to have drowned.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,8,13,12,6,7,17,10,4,11,5],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-clothes-for-sailing","tag-clothing-for-sailing","tag-regatta-gear","tag-sailing-apparel","tag-sailing-clothing","tag-sailing-gear","tag-sailing-wear","tag-yacht-clothing","tag-yachting-apparel","tag-yachting-clothes","tag-yachting-clothing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Low Speed Chase\u2019 Loses Five Crew Members in South Farallon Race Accident - REGATTA GEAR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Regatta Gear team would like to extend our condolences to the families of the fine crew of the vessel Low Speed Chase, slammed by waves and pushed onto rocks during a race around South Farallon Island off San Francisco, Sat., April 14. 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