jimi
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How many of us have had our masts under water? Say this cos a few peeps I've spoken to recently have managed this feat.
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Straw Poll -- mast in the water
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sailorman
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no have 3 ton of lead + 13`6" beam to help stop this fingers X
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brianhumber
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Scared me sh----ss when the boom end dipped in just north of Raz de Sein as we rolled off the top of a beam swell and caught a gust over 40kts. Too busy looking at the greeny climbing aboard to say hello in the cockpit to look at things like the mast. Lost the plot after that and buggered off round the headland into Morgat for some restorative beers.
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Peppermint
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Re: Might of had...
...the way I was hanging from my pipecot frame I'd say so. The way all the loose stuff was on the deckhead it's pretty near certain. The crew on deck couldn't say cos they was underwater.
It all happened because this chesty woman kissed the helmsman at a bad time.
Still. we only lost 15 minutes and a kite as big as Berkshire.
As to sailormans bit of lead we'd got about 15 tonnes of the stuff and a draught of 14ft.
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...the way I was hanging from my pipecot frame I'd say so. The way all the loose stuff was on the deckhead it's pretty near certain. The crew on deck couldn't say cos they was underwater.
It all happened because this chesty woman kissed the helmsman at a bad time.
Still. we only lost 15 minutes and a kite as big as Berkshire.
As to sailormans bit of lead we'd got about 15 tonnes of the stuff and a draught of 14ft.
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sailorman
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Re: Might of had...
wheres Berkshire
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wheres Berkshire
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Talbot
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Mast in water in a cat is an indicator of a really bad day /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
I have rolled 70 degrees in a minesweeper in a force 11 off cape wrath, does that count (scared the cr*p out of me)
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I have rolled 70 degrees in a minesweeper in a force 11 off cape wrath, does that count (scared the cr*p out of me)
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jimi
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Give you that one cos thats bad in a powerboat.
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Sgeir
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Re: Might of had...
so, it was a trailer sailer then?
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so, it was a trailer sailer then?
<hr width=100% size=1>I had a very nice link until Kim told us off about it. I'm not bitter mind.
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jimi
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's OK I've got six pairs you can choose from, most of my crew seem to leave a gift of a pair of glasses on the boat so you can help yourself .. the bifocal sunglasses are particulary tasty.
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Becky
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We might have done, it was too dark to see really. There were waves slapping under the keel (3 tons, but only iron), and the bowl of fruit that had resided on the saloon table finally went exploring the cabin sole. So did everything on the shelves. It was fun at the time, but we are now having the keel rebonded and rebolted in place. So perhaps not so clever.l
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Talbot
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Telling me, I had my arms around the compass pelourus and my feet were in the air. - Open bridge, so if I had let go i would have been in the water. Things got worse - we lost all life rafts, long range comms, and a lot of other things. Had nimrods up looking for us etc etc etc I have to admit to being a little concerned /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif
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BrendanS
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Next you are going to tell us you didn't even have time to take any decent pictures! 
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FullCircle
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Well we did it a couple of times. First time was a chinese gybe with a kite while running by the lee up to a mark whilst racing. That only took out a running backstay.
Second time the boat heeled about 10 degrees in 12kts of breeze, and the mast threw itself over the side. It definitely went under water, because we didn't recover it. Didn't seem much point really, as one of the rules of racing says you have to sail all the way round the course, and we had no way of keeping them in the air. So we went to the bar.
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Second time the boat heeled about 10 degrees in 12kts of breeze, and the mast threw itself over the side. It definitely went under water, because we didn't recover it. Didn't seem much point really, as one of the rules of racing says you have to sail all the way round the course, and we had no way of keeping them in the air. So we went to the bar.
<hr width=100% size=1>Jeanneau 35 - only 13,272 lbs displacement, not even 6 tons,what a lightweight!!!
floatything
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My friend flipped a Hobie cat and got the masthead stuck in rocks on the sea bed. Only 30 metres from shore, so he and another friend pootled off and came back with diving kit. They promptly dislodged the mast from the rock and.....
The boat sank. They then spent the rest of the day dragging the hulls the short distance to shore - along the sea bottom, until they could drag it up the beach for repairs. Don't you just love other people's tribulations.
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The boat sank. They then spent the rest of the day dragging the hulls the short distance to shore - along the sea bottom, until they could drag it up the beach for repairs. Don't you just love other people's tribulations.
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jimi
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Erm .. was thinking more of proper boats really..
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JOHNOO
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I was steering a 45ft AC back from the Fasnet Rock, plenty of wind, in the dark when we broached, the masthead hit the water removing the instruments!. I was
not allowed to steer the rest of the race......
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not allowed to steer the rest of the race......
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jimi
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The guy I was talking today put the mast in the water as a result of a broach after losing steering in a 40 footer in F9/10. Fuunily enough this was a result of the wheel losing its key on the spindle .. a problem i'd already identified on my boat with mucho self amalgamating tape put in place JIC.
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StephenSails
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This is a regular thing for me when I sail the Merlin Rocket, never had a yachts mast in but I know a few that have, mainly mini sailors though! I have however surfed a 40ft X-Yacht down a wave side ways which was quite interesting, the crew managed to sleep through it as well.
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Evadne
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Not on my boat since I had a dinghy. My little dinghy in Durban managed to put the mast in the water while staying bolt upright, but I never could get her to capsize properly. More scary was a chinese broach during a F7 spinnaker gybe while crewing on a Sigma 38. We were racing in the Solent. The spinnaker did a good job as a parachute anchor, and kept her horizontal, but she was so beamy the cockpit stayed dry and I don't think the mast itself got wet. Everyone else did though.
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