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[Coupe]

Sorry if this has been posted here before.

Yacht "Windswept" broke free from her mooring at Port Erin a couple of weeks back. Crew woke to the sickening sound of her running aground...

 

[Searush]

Ouch! That's a Renown, the fin keel verion of Searush. Rather brings it home a bit sharpish. They are Damn strong boats tho' so, depending on how much she bounces on the next tide, she should come off needing only a fair bit of cosmetic repairs.

I often go aground - on sand - and with bilge keels, it is not a problem. But that is somewhat more serious.

 

[Kawasaki]

check out drewtwos post on Mobo, 20th 09 07.
For more info.
Gawd, sickening piccies, do We know if She got off OK?

 

[LittleShip]

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Jeezus Mick................. I thought for one moment you had cocked up again.

Don't do that!

I'll just go and lie down with a cup of tea now?

Tom

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[AndrewB]

That yacht has stood up to such a grounding incredibly well, a credit to her designer. Hope they got her off.

Compare with the typical AWB which will fall apart at the merest tap. This well-known yacht lost its keel, rudder and mast after a scrape on the Brambles Bank (Solent) in moderate winds.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

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That yacht has stood up to such a grounding incredibly well,

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More to the point, which anitfouling is he using? If that photo is recent, it is one of the few that work it seems.

 

[Searush]

From Google:
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Isle of Man Today - Isle of Man News; AN attempt to salvage the £25000 yacht Windswept, which ran aground in Port Erin last week, was made successfully on Saturday, just 24 hours after a ...
www.iomtoday.co.im/getFeed.aspx?Fo rmat=rss&sectionid=870 - 15k -


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No more details, topic is time expired on feed, but the word successful is promising. Good old Laurent-Giles then. They may not be the fastest, but they are Damn strong, as I said earlier!
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[Searush]

Bit more info Here:

Not quite as undamaged as I had hoped. Note large hole in her side. But doesn't seem to have been structurally distorted & already bought for repair.

 

[l'escargot]

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That yacht has stood up to such a grounding incredibly well, a credit to her designer. Hope they got her off.

Compare with the typical AWB which will fall apart at the merest tap. This well-known yacht lost its keel, rudder and mast after a scrape on the Brambles Bank (Solent) in moderate winds.

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Where was the picture taken, I don't recognise it as anywhere near the Brambles?

 

[BrendanS]

Like you, can't see any resemblance to Bramble Bank unless it was towed to the location where photo taken later, in which case, no resemblance to conditions on Bramble, as it's a photo of somewhere near shore.

 

[michael_w]

Looks like the foreshore near Stansore Point.