The story goes that during a night of anchor watch, deckhand Tom Pearson allowed the famous sailing yacht, Parsifal III, to drag. And in case you’re wondering, that’s extremely dangerous and a big no-no in the boating world! “It’s as serious as it gets. I mean, there are boats, similar boats, who have been in the same situation where they didn’t recover,” Captain Glenn Shephard explained to E! News.
Still, Pearson claimed the mistake happened innocently enough. According to Pearson, he had come to the end of his shift when he decided to go downstairs to make himself a cup of coffee or tea, and that’s when the alarm went off. “So I was like, ‘What is going on?’ So I ran upstairs, went outside, and that’s when I realized everything was blowing everywhere. I was trying to stop stuff from falling off the boat,” he recalled during an interview with Sportskeeda. “Fifteen minutes before that, there was barely any wind,” he added.
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Alas, Shephard has an entirely different version of events…
