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If you read the report you will surmise that he was very grateful that he had a liferaft. Now this could be argued to be an isolated case but it most certainly did happen. To exclude it from consideration / deny the possibility as Tranona seems to do does not help others to form a balanced view and enable them to assess the risk based on the type of sailing they intend to pursue.

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It was only excluded from consideration because you refused to point to evidence that a dinghy wouldn't have saved them. Shackleton, Bligh and many other's have proved that an open boat can be a very effective LR. The Ouzo crew lived for hours without even a dinghy in equivalent conditions.

The fact you attach so much importance to an individual case could be seen as evidence that LR save very few people indeed.

Let's leave the idividual cases and look at the wider picture. What the chance of me dying in a leisure yacht this season. How much is that chance reduced by a LR?

You could win the debate in one hit - if you could show that sailing without a LR was half as dangerous as smoking I'd never step on a boat without one.

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