The families of three South African sailors presumed dead after their catamaran capsized last year have been "plunged back into distress" by the loss of the hull last week as it was being towed back to Cape Town. The families say the catamaran's owners, who flew to Cape Town last week to meet the vessel, refused to meet them.At a press briefing yesterday the families said the hull had been identified as that of the missing Moorings A5130."For reasons that we don't fully understand, and which add to our ongoing pain and suffering, the tug lost the hull during the journey back to port and it has not been seen since."We now have certainty that the hull is that of Moorings A5130, the Leopard 44 catamaran that our men were delivering to Thailand, where it would become part of Sunsail's leisure fleet."This has come through underwater images captured by NSRI divers on January 23."These images show that the catamaran has drifted thousands and thousands of kilometres to come home."Anthony Murray, Reginald Robertson and Jaryd Payne are presumed dead after contact with the catamaran was lost on January 18 last year.The families slammed the vessel's owners, TUI/Sunsail, accusing them of "systemic corporate and legal bullying"."Since the start of this latest sighting we have asked repeatedly to meet representatives [of the owners]. On Saturday, January 30, our lawyers were informed that Sunsail/Tui Group does not believe [a meeting] would 'serve any purpose'."Marion Telsnig, of Sunsail's UK press office, said last night that the company needed time to consider its response to the accusations, some of which it said were "unfounded".Two sailors - a 61-year-old Scot and a 49-year-old Irish woman, both living in the Western Cape - died when their yacht the Tara ran aground between Langebaan and Cape Town. A third sailor aboard the Tara, a 66-year-old man, survived uninjured and raised the alarm."The Tara was found broken up in rocks on the shore line," the NSRI said...