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    flaming replied to the thread Dragonfly 36 debut.
    Yes but there isn't an active dragonfly racing scene... If there was (and they were quite a bit cheaper) then I'd consider one.
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    flaming replied to the thread JPK 39FC.
    Had a lot of fun in Dartmouth on the baby sister last week.
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    flaming replied to the thread Dragonfly 36 debut.
    I suspect they’d need to get 15 of them on a racetrack together before the TP52 owners would consider that they had made an error….
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    Well so far it does look this is actually going to be about the sailors. Ineos lost that on a shift, speeds were very even.
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    flaming replied to the thread "Bayesian" s/y sinks in Palermo.
    According to the Mail online (yes, I know...) the builders have already made up their mind where the blame lies. Why did the Bayesian...
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    flaming reacted to pmagowan's post in the thread "Bayesian" s/y sinks in Palermo with Like Like.
    Imagine your, or 99% of yachts, being knocked over like this. It would be chaos. Now imagine it in a superyacht with all the 'extras'...
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    flaming replied to the thread "Bayesian" s/y sinks in Palermo.
    I wouldn't read too much into the diver comments, probably because they are more likely to be trying to directly access the sleeping...
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    flaming replied to the thread "Bayesian" s/y sinks in Palermo.
    Unless the AVS was less than 90, I don't think there's any way any sailing boat could go beyond 90 by wind action alone, no matter how...
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    flaming replied to the thread "Bayesian" s/y sinks in Palermo.
    He was the engineer, it was his job to know. And I think he was referring to the state of the boat before the weather hit.
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    flaming replied to the thread "Bayesian" s/y sinks in Palermo.
    Oh, to be fair I am lumping all the "large glass areas" in one category as "windows" when I say something must have failed.
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    flaming replied to the thread "Bayesian" s/y sinks in Palermo.
    There's a very interesting interview in Der Spiegel with the captain of the other boat who rescued the crew from the liferaft. In it he...
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    flaming replied to the thread "Bayesian" s/y sinks in Palermo.
    I think the accounts of broken glass which seem to be from before it turned over suggest that the windows were smashed, and then it...
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