They are lying.
First off, they claimed they lost their motor and the mast had issues.
Look at pix 8.
Both fore and back stay are good.
You can see both spreaders with cables through them and a sailor is climbing it. Even if they lost jib or main halyards, the other was good and on these boats, it is easy to put up the backup halyard.
Then they are claiming squalls where sats show none was at.
Add in their ability to sail to Xmas island and wanting to go there, means that they had nav capabilities.

Something is up.
I would drill a few holes into the boat where they added fiberglass. I suspect they will find something useful.

These women are going to be found to be as bad as trump for telling the truth.