Vendee Globe 2012-2013: Sam Davies crashes out after Saveol dismast as casualties mount She was in 35 knots of wind facing and heavy squalls and a confused sea state so stayed below to keep safe, putting on her survival suit and waiting for conditions to subside. "I was getting ready to my foulweather gear on," she explained. The squall was just finishing and the wind dropping and the boat jumped off the top of the top of a wave. That's when I had the impact and then the boat came upright and suddenly there was no more wind in my rigging and everything was flopping around. I could hear the mast rubbing against the hull and under the boat and knew it could damage the hull if I was unlucky, so the main thing was to close all the watertight bulkheads in case it did get pierced. I put my survival suit on because it is the best way to go out and check everything on deck but the worst thing was the really big breaking waves and they were pushing the mast and boom into the deck and into the hull still and everything was moving a lot, like around 2m. There was still a lot of wind in the mainsail attached to the boom, so every time there was a big gust the boom was lifting off the deck and into the water. To start with I didn't want to go outside in case the boom got caught by the wind or in case there was a big jump, so I wanted to wait to see how the whole situation as going to establish itself before I took any chances to go on deck.