Sunk sunsail

[doris]

Looking at the piccies of the yacht hit by the power boat reminded me of the Sunsail boat sunk in the Solent 2 weeks ago on the Ernst and Young corporate bonding day. A simple port and starboard incident but it still resulted in QHM sending us a smashing little notification. Great piccie ensued, of the top of the mast and the top spreaders!!

<hr width=100% size=1>Real men do it 2handed.

 

[duncan]

not sure of the link between the two incedents but you will find pictures of the unfortunate Sunsail craft already on here somewhere too, just after the incident;

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[mark_sabin]

Where can the pics be found?

<hr width=100% size=1>Sun, Sail and beer....thats life!!

 

[sailorman]

sadist

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[ubuysa]

Re: Sunk sunsail picture

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/forums/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=ym&Number=537585&page=8&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&part=all>Here</A>

<hr width=100% size=1>There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

[doris]

Link

The link is simple......would a Sunfast 37 have withstood the mobo as in the piccies when it couldn't cope with an assault by one of it's sisters?

<hr width=100% size=1>Real men do it 2handed.

 

[StugeronSteve]

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I would have thought that the hull form of the power boat, coupled with it's nose up attitude at speed, would promote the tendancy for the power boat to ride up onto the yacht, reducing hull damage on impact. However, the bluff bow of one modern sailing boat will quite easily slice the hull of another, potentially causing much more damage on, and around, the water line.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[BrendanS]

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Which is exactly what happened when a Sunsail boat sliced through stern of large motorboat off Lee on Solent a couple of years ago. Crew were taken off by helicopter. Coastguard had to order Sunsail boat back to rendered assistance after he told coastguard he couldn't render assistance to boat he had sunk as he was 'racing'

<hr width=100% size=1>Me transmitte sursum, caledoni

 

[StugeronSteve]

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Coastguards. They seem to forget that some people have more important things to do than saving lives. I wonder if the S**sail guys reminded him that being under sail they had every right to ram him.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[Fill]

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Not so sure they had the right - he was their committee boat! Perhaps he'd upset them.

<hr width=100% size=1>Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

 

[StugeronSteve]

Re: Link

Ah, but was he showing the appropriate day marks? Otherwise.....

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[Cobra]

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Of course if he had not laid an inner distance mark, the S**sail boat would have been well within his right to approach the Committee boat as close as he saw fit!

<hr width=100% size=1>When God invented time he didn't give me enough of it. ND!