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Originally Posted by hcoles

I heard the crew was out pulling in cushions etc. because they saw the storm coming. This would have been a good time to lower the keel.

I haven't been scouring the data available and have very little sailboat expertise, but if you're on a billionaire's sailing yacht, and a storm's brewing, I'm thinking the proper order of events would be 1 close the giant doors, and lower the keel if possible (presumably the sails were furled) 2 close the ports/windows/hatches, 3 deal with the cushions or anything else that might wash overboard.