article_snippet: Our sails were too big for the weather and the boat had become difficult to handle. '
article_snippet: Our had to change Our sails.'
article_snippet: One minute I was on board, the next I was in the water. '
article_snippet: I waited for my safety line to snag then realised my safety line wasn't attached to the boat. '
article_snippet: Then I was hit by the rudder, which, at 15ft high and 6in thick, ran over me.
article_snippet: I thought my legs were broken as I watched the boat disappear. '
article_snippet: I swore as the boat went over the horizon and thought about my last conversation with the skipper, Sean McCarter, about going to get a tool. '
article_snippet: I wondered if my crewmates had seen me fall off the boat.'
article_snippet: I thought the boat would stop, turn round and pick me up. '
article_snippet: I checked the straps on my life jacket were tight and the straps was fully inflated, then I waited for the boat. '
article_snippet: For a long time I saw the boat in the distance and thought the boat must have stopped. '
article_snippet: I saw the mast but only a glimpse of the deck and thought, 'If I can't see the deck, I can't see the deck can't see me'.'
article_snippet: he said: 'By the third attempt I wondered if I had the energy and would get on the boat.
article_snippet: I don't know where I got the strength to get back on board.