Orca attack

warpigz said:
here's the answer to Orca deterrent, Use of Magnets ! face 1 out that's NORTH the other 1 behind it SOUTH. Apply several strips on both sides of rudder(s) north,south,north,south & so on. Orca's use magnetic direction for long distance travel. When they checkout the rudder, they become like little lost puppies & they swim away dumbfounded. We have magnets on our rudders & on the bottom hulls of both my ketch sailboats. 1 is a 52'ft. & the other is a 93'ft. both are steel hulls & both our rudders are steel diamond plate coated w/a copper jacket. Also a copper jacket on the hulls as well. Howdy from Switzerland !
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Switzerland is landlocked.
How is a b..y orca gonna find you there anyway? Do you ship one in a tank on the back of a lorry :ROFLMAO:
If they did , with all those magnets the compass would be sailing you in circles:unsure:
 
KevinV said:
I didn't realise there were orca in Lake Geneva? 🤔
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Daydream believer said:
Switzerland is landlocked.
How is a b..y orca gonna find you there anyway? Do you ship one in a tank on the back of a lorry :ROFLMAO:
If they did , with all those magnets the compass would be sailing you in circles:unsure:
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No Orcas in Swiss Lakes, but on occasion, I have seen a few beached whales along their shores.


Crazy to believe, but Switzerland actually has a ships registry and the Swiss do sometimes sail on salt water. They might have a pretty stupid certification system and need to hire foreign guns to be successful on the international circuit, but it's not so absurd that a Swiss Person might pop up on these threads.

I have no idea if there is anything to this magnetism suggestion though. That is best left to the experts to comment on.
 
AllWinds said:
No Orcas in Swiss Lakes, but on occasion, I have seen a few beached whales along their shores.


Crazy to believe, but Switzerland actually has a ships registry and the Swiss do sometimes sail on salt water. They might have a pretty stupid certification system and need to hire foreign guns to be successful on the international circuit, but it's not so absurd that a Swiss Person might pop up on these threads.
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I suppose one should admit, in all fairness, that Switzerland did win the Americas cup in Alinghi, circa 2003
 
Daydream believer said:
Sponsored by a Swiss yacht club & they beat a NZ YC boat. So NZ DID NOT win
Remind me please where the NZ team gets its money from. Would that be the "Emirates".
A New Zealand outfit are they?- I will help you on that -- Try Dubai. Is that in new Zealand?
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Triggered much?

Come on - Yes Swiss Yacht Club, Swiss Money. But how many Swiss Sailors were on the boat?

Not that comparable to the current NZ Team, they all have to fulfil the Nationality Rule (and the nationality rule is one of the reasons it is rumoured to at least partly why Alinghi have pulled out of the next cup), the boat is registered and built in NZ, sailing for a NZ Yacht Club, it's only the Sponsor money that comes from abroad. (Unless you want to argue that the UAE are the current cup holders!)

In 2003, the Swiss bought a large chunk of the previous winning NZ Team, I believe maybe only 1 or 2 of the sailing team were actually Swiss. They paid them as mercenaries. The sailing talent was most certainly predominantly Kiwi. The money was Swiss. By your argument, it's only the Yacht Club and where the boat was built which is preventing us from saying that the UAE won the last cup!

But either way, not much to do with Orcas this derailment.
 
using ferrous metals, use a GPS navigation. Old Skool compass is outdated. I use bar magnets, they are 1 7/8"inch L x 7/8" W x 3/8" thick. Place magnets to run with the direction length of hull from aft to bow on the rudder. Make the 1st lead magnet w/a point on it's front. Use an epoxy glue to mount all magnets. make sure the rudder is clean & dry before mounting magnets. U can apply several rows from waterline down to tip of rudder. I also use magnets on the hulls of both my sailboats, in a configuration of North,South,North,South & so on. The magnets are a ferrous-ceramic mixture & can chip or break EZ if dropped on concrete floor. Wear safety glasses when handling these magnets, they are powerful in magnetic force & will draw together quickly sumtimes chipping on contact with each other. Don't let magnets pinch your finger skin. Break bar magnets apart by turning top magnet perpendicular to other bar magnet & pull them apart. U can mark the magnets N,S,N,S or +,-,+,- for installation, as U don't want to hover a magnet over another magnet during a glue setting magnet, it'll mess up your gluing job. U can buy magnets online VERY CHEAP. Small applications via Harbor Freight or Walmart. Magnets van also be found in Thomas Registry or Thomcat Supply books from manufacturers.
 
warpigz said:
using ferrous metals, use a GPS navigation. Old Skool compass is outdated. I use bar magnets, they are 1 7/8"inch L x 7/8" W x 3/8" thick. Place magnets to run with the direction length of hull from aft to bow on the rudder. Make the 1st lead magnet w/a point on it's front. Use an epoxy glue to mount all magnets. make sure the rudder is clean & dry before mounting magnets. U can apply several rows from waterline down to tip of rudder. I also use magnets on the hulls of both my sailboats, in a configuration of North,South,North,South & so on. The magnets are a ferrous-ceramic mixture & can chip or break EZ if dropped on concrete floor. Wear safety glasses when handling these magnets, they are powerful in magnetic force & will draw together quickly sumtimes chipping on contact with each other. Don't let magnets pinch your finger skin. Break bar magnets apart by turning top magnet perpendicular to other bar magnet & pull them apart. U can mark the magnets N,S,N,S or +,-,+,- for installation, as U don't want to hover a magnet over another magnet during a glue setting magnet, it'll mess up your gluing job. U can buy magnets online VERY CHEAP. Small applications via Harbor Freight or Walmart. Magnets van also be found in Thomas Registry or Thomcat Supply books from manufacturers.
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this has to do with Orca Deterrent of using magnets on the rudders of boats
 
doug748 said:
An interesting snippet here:


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He says boat on way to ARC but no life jackets on board and no vhf. All 4 souls on board lost. Boat capsized owing to 10m swell and boat kept close to shore and in the swell for fear of Orcas offshore.
No life jackets or vhf? On the way to ARC?
 
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Cerebus said:
He says boat on way to ARC but no life jackets on board and no vhf. All 4 souls on board lost. Boat capsized owing to 10m swell and boat kept close to shore and in the swell for fear of Orcas offshore.
No life jackets or vhf? On the way to ARC?
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I am reluctant to dinghy across the harbour to the boat unless I have a lifejacket on as not a great swimmer let alone the Atlantic
No jackets and no VHF on the way to the ARC ?? where they would carry out an inspection of the boat and your kit before you are allowed to join the ARC. Does he mention the boat name ? too much background noise for me in the vid
 
Cerebus said:
He says boat on way to ARC but no life jackets on board and no vhf. All 4 souls on board lost. Boat capsized owing to 10m swell and boat kept close to shore and in the swell for fear of Orcas offshore.
No life jackets or vhf? On the way to ARC?
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This old news from last year and it has probably already been discussed in this post
 
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