Orca attack

Does anybody know what the further attacks from land have been? We are looking to cross from Falmouth next week but we might just head straight out to the Azores to miss the Orca problem
 
geem said:
Does anybody know what the further attacks from land have been? We are looking to cross from Falmouth next week but we might just head straight out to the Azores to miss the Orca problem
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Take explosive devices with you seems to be the local advice, whispered behind the hand. As a public company Halcyon are a bit hamstrung in that respect.
 
Halcyon Yachts said:
Here's another video of the same incident. They lost steering very quickly. The film shows the rescue team including a helicopter to bring a bigger water pump... They were minutes away from needing to get into the liferaft.


Pete
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An excellent response by the emergency services and the crew once the damage was incurred. I would be interested to know what the thought process is in planning routings that take boats through the orca populated areas. Is it to straight line the route to reduce time in the area regardless of depth or is there some other reasons I am missing. As a delivery company, do you issue routing directives or guidance to skippers or do you leave it entirely up to their choice. I see boats in transit through these areas every day that are clearly in 50mtrs plus and often wonder why they are out there given the orca situation.
 
The production boats really need a box around the rudder shaft. It's so easy to prevent water ingress when the rudder is ripped from the boat.
 
geem said:
Does anybody know what the further attacks from land have been? We are looking to cross from Falmouth next week but we might just head straight out to the Azores to miss the Orca problem
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We went from the west coast of Ireland to Madeira using the same logic.

There seem to have very few attacks (if any) this far from land, but not many boats take this track, so it is difficult to know the real risk.
 
noelex said:
We went from the west coast of Ireland to Madeira using the same logic.

There seem to have very few attacks (if any) this far from land, but not many boats take this track, so it is difficult to know the real risk.
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We are just arriving in Porto Santo. Left NW Spain 100nm to the East. Less than 8 days from Falmouth🙂
 
We adopted the same strategy staying well offshore. However, 120nm to the East of NW Spain we saw Orca (20th July). Fortunately they completely ignored us and we tried very hard to ignore them! I presume they were not one of the pods belonging to the residential Portuguese groups causing the problems. But who knows.
 
It seems that several UK sailors decided to bypass the Spanish and Portuguese coast as we did. We are in Porto Santo. Several UK boats have left from Falmouth and sailed the 1200nm directly, staying 100nm offshore past NW Spain. It looks like the new favourable route if you are heading south to the Canaries and beyond
 
Regional news today had a commentary about the whales and showed a map indicating quite a few sightings off Galicia and the harbour master of Portosinsaid people are anxious about the problem.TheGerman yacht that was rescued had a gaping hole where the rudder stoch should have been looks like a big rebuilding that area
 
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