Zen Zero
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How might this have happened:
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It's a Doufour 44 with (probably) a charter crew on it, somewhere in Greece.
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It's a Doufour 44 with (probably) a charter crew on it, somewhere in Greece.
How to break the boom ...
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jimi
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dinghy sailors cranking the vang on super hard?
lw395
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Preventer tied to kicker? boom hits wave down wind?
Corrosion?
Dinghy sailor wants leach tension from kicker, so rigs it with more purchase/bigger winch?
Section too light in the first place?
Corrosion?
Dinghy sailor wants leach tension from kicker, so rigs it with more purchase/bigger winch?
Section too light in the first place?
awol
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Fat bloke stood on it?
Zen Zero
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Or a whole fat charter crew (except the one with the camera)?
Zen Zero
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My guess is they cranked up the vang because the main wasn't setting right and the main wasn't setting right because they'd forgotten to release the topping lift.
DJE
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Since I replaced my mainsail I have broken the vang attachment point on the boom twice. Both on broad reaches when the boat hit the back of a wave (the new sail has a much harder leach than the very old one which it replaced). I have now replaced the fitting with a strop around the boom which is much stronger. So I guess the boom will be next to go.
DJE
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ripvan1
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Gybed with preventer on - don't ask how I know
Zen Zero
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"know" or assume?
ripvan1
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The latter 
peterb
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Kicker taken down to a stanchion base to act as a kicker (demo by very well known instructor), then the mainsheet pulled in hard by someone who had been below during the demo. We snapped the gooseneck on a Contessa 32.
alan_d
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Do you mean "... to act as a preventer..."?
ytd
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We did the same thing to our boom (Bav 44) gybing in about 30 knots. With coachroof mounted mainsheet there is a big lever arm on the boom but it tends to break (kink) between the mainsheet attachment and the vang attachment. Turned out the boom section was marginal for the sail area and boom length. We are now very careful about gybing and have fitted a boom brake.
lw395
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Says a lot about the strength of the stanchion base.
I would think rolling the clew into a wave would put the force of the mainsheet well in the shade.
Birdseye
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Easy. But he's a beginner - I took out two booms on one boat in a jibe all standing. Knackered the rod kickers too. And that was on a solidly built boat not a french mass manufacture.
