Sorry to hear about the problem, the risks you were exposed to and the damage! Not much fun to have a swage come apart. Watching the swages is probably good advice for all kind of boats, not just Blades. You never know! Some are known to put two swages on instead of just one. Sailing with terminals on the end of the wires is not better, trust me on that. We have had forestays and sidestays bust on us, and that was supposed to be really high quality stuff. I think you can check swages and make a call on how they do, but the end terminals are impossible to inspect. I even tried running them through a digital x-ray machine, but we broke our forestay in the terminal at the scandinavian championship anyway.