The SSS Culture of allowing for challenges while shorthanding is why I didn't mention the late-starting port tack nonspin boat who was struggling to avoid getting hit in the melee at the Start. Bad choice to be there. He was attempting to get his boat tacked onto starboard - but he was pretty much blanketed from enough wind to do it. I think all of us who've sailed lots of SSS races have either "been there" or accommodated someone who is "there."
I think the large boat involved with our boat retired, because at Southampton I saw it off to the east with its jib down. Motoring?