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Wasn't it just? The perfect summer sail. Much like yours. Hoisted off Poole Quay, this morning. Dropped sail, in the Hamble, this...

They certainly induce a warp factor whinge amongst the huggers.....

What!!...do they roar now as well as bite rudders!

Hope it didn't upset the killer whales. Imagine the uproar.....

It was fine a month ago...managed to get from Thornham to Newtown Creek via a night on an Itchenor mooring then onto Yarmouth...

Taken by surprise by the storm or taken by surprise by the squall that knocked them down? I think I'll now sit back and wait for the...

On a boat that size the crew usually have some sort of coms with the skipper - you can't hear them 100 feet away yet alone in a storm...

Does anyone know how much pressure (in terms of wind strength) would be needed to knock a vessel of that displacement onto her spreaders...

at least they have found the 6th person... some closure for the families anyway

Until we have the data and the testimonies from the crew I am not sure we can compare this with the New Zealand knock down. We don't...

Interesting - I'd be highly surprised if the shell door was left open overnight, not only for weather but for security reasons. It is...

The Perini Navi homepage appears to be 'down' - perhaps overloaded with hits? https://www.perininavi.it/ However this part of the...

Wonder how they know that the "portholes" were open.

According to the Mail online (yes, I know...) the builders have already made up their mind where the blame lies. Why did the Bayesian...

The picture I put up was of "Salute" which was renamed Bayesian so shows the long ballasted keel box into which the centreplate retracts