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Thanks, that really is good detail. Specifics from foreign newspapers with quotes from skipper and survivors that I haven't seen elsewhere.
21 Aug 2024
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Just to say very impressed with all the experience and knowledge apparent on this thread ... so I'll confine myself to a few snippets...
21 Aug 2024
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The confused face was because the poster started off saying water ingress through an opening was nonsense and a paragraph later it was...
21 Aug 2024
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That 56M vessel will have large sliding doors at Bothe the rear saloon and forward accommodation access, there are two explanations why...
21 Aug 2024
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Yup. Open openings. Occam's razor supports that.
21 Aug 2024
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:unsure: Because it's a sea going vessel "Built to ABS (American Bureau of Shipping) ✠A1, Yachting Service, AMS, ACCU classification...
21 Aug 2024
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The principle is the same. It's a sailing boat and will have openings and those openings will (surely?) be reasonably well sealable -...
21 Aug 2024
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U I don't doubt that waterspouts are devastating but that article says that the conditions that create them are not. So, based on...
21 Aug 2024
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This, AFAIC. *If* the keel does provide ballast, then there would be no reason to have it down when not sailing, safely at anchor...
21 Aug 2024
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Good point, it's likely to be lying on the side with the smashed windows if there are some. I'm still in the 'there were things open...
21 Aug 2024
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Sounds like some / most of the windows are still in place according to the diver reports - Divers are unable to see inside the yacht...
21 Aug 2024
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My boat went through hurricane Irma and lost two windows - no idea if the forces sucked them out or over pressure inside blew them out...
21 Aug 2024
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Is it possible the tornado sucked the windows and doors out? These doors and windows are designed to resist external pressure, not a...
21 Aug 2024
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The divers that have been down have mentioned they can't see through the windows (according to the BBC) so you'd think they'd probably...
21 Aug 2024
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Nobody sets their boat up for sudden tornadoes in the med. The reality is that a thunderstorm was forecast not hurricane force winds. It...
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