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Opposite. Anabatic winds are a daytime phenomenon (as the sun heats the slopes) and generates warm air which rises, drawing air up the...

Arn’t katabatics a day time phenomenon? Sun heats mountain rocks so by the afternoon……… The met was predictable a local yellow was...

Thx for this Bajansailor ^ . They do say in knock downs for the best outcome everybody has to be inside and all doors closed - obviously...

The survivors do say it tipped up and they were thrown overboard . There’s obviously been a huge breach somewhere and the factory guys...

He did add the proviso that the inner water tight door to the engine room / machinery spaces should have been closed . He pointed out...

If these quotes are true I suspect many will choose not to deal with that shipyard ever again - to immediately and publicly blame the...

On the “port hole “ open thing on big boats they have sensors and indicators on the bridge show the status open / closed .We will find...

Just fit a bigger charger . = the elephant in the room ! We do the same as you geny up for an hr or two usually at anchor as the boats...

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

Divers report the portholes closed on the up side with the boat on its side on the sea bed though. Also TBC with a night geny on the AC...

Here’s another explanation: The wind hit so fast the momentum of the mass of the boat allowed her to roll so far as to immerse the mast...

Everything is scaled up .Principal is the same , the ex engineer said so - they can rattle sometimes . The pivot pin wears...

You beat me to it . The pivot pin wear leading to a rattling plate within the body is a good spot .As to why they tend to retract them...

I ll second this ^ . Adding the water entered from the patio doors either breaking or inadvertently being open at the wrong time ...