Three of us were sailing our EC-12s from the lee shore of the big lake in wind that topped out at about 20. Very choppy. There were two collsions while sailing upwind, both involving one of the boats. Not WHAM, but just minor hits, sort of a side by side hit and then stbd/port masts hitting in the second incident. In both cases that same boat lost radio contact. The thing that restored control of sails and rudder was turning the 6J radio off and back on. That was pretty much the only thing we could do standing on shore and watching the boat sail itself across the lake. Thank goodness.
That boat has the receiver velcroed fairly high on the hull side. (I have been working on the skipper to move it to under the deck.) The boat did not have problems at any other time during the couple of hours out there. Very little water in the boat.
There must have been something other than demons and devine intervention at work. Any ideas?