You are correct. The precentages are when you see way more of one particular type of machinery you will most likely see it fail just as way often. Maybe you misunderstood me. I wasn't refering to just one instance, but multiple. And on the water saftey is definately not just your epuipment, it begins with common sense and so on. I am not judging or criticizing people in particular, but I said what I said, not because I own fine vehicles that score high as status symbols, but because I know what has happened again and again.
I'm glad you or anyone feels safe it whatever boat the own especially in rugged sea conditions. And the person who just posted previously is probably a competent boat owner and operator. If you don't have confidence on the water that you don't belong there. I just simply want to be clear on my one point which is the numbers or percentages... Accually the ratio of structual hull failure to the whatever the number of which ever kind of popular vessel that leaves my home port, astoundingly, lead me to post what I posted. Some, if not most of us have been in Big stuff. Even in canoes, ferries whatever. Experience tells us each to form on opinion, and there's probably a considerable amount of bayliner owners who have read my posts on this topic. Some might be offended and I apoligize, honestly. My opinion is and will stay unchanged until those things track record changes in the future.
The coast guard has the stats, the exact numbers. Ask them their opinion. Write the seattle office for a request for info and you'll get it. Or simply ask an experienced crewmember who serves aboard a rollover or any of the resue boats at any of our coastal ports. I already know the jist of their response, because I've asked a few of them myself. Ask them if they'd own a BL if there was something else at the same price and size and suited the same needs. Keep your confidence on the water. Bayliner, Almar, Grady, or surfboard. Common sense too.
As for the Tacky Too, and her crew,tragedy, and in my opinion, over loaded for the bar conditions.
I was on the water that day off La Push and I heard about it over the phone on the water as it hit us through the media. And that was a pretty rugged day up here. But bar crossing with a rapid ebb and ouside sea conditions made it too much for that 32' vessel with that large crew. I don't know all the details but with the info I got, I think it was ultimately human error. I don't get much exposure to media on the peninsula, Internet and a cell phone and two VHF's, a single side band and a CB. No TV or paper, and minimal time in the summer to use any of those accept the radios. Leaving Tillimook bay is tricky some times and that Skipper could of probably done it blind folded. To my understanding he was very experienced.
(Pmartin. Never have owned, and I can't ever see owning one dispite the modest price of the used ones.)