Sunsail boat holed

[Firefly625]

You gotta love those French built sunsail boats...how thin is that grp... Spotted At Port Solent today;

 

[lionelz]

wonder what that hit or hit it?

 

[Firefly625]

wonder what that hit or hit it?

I should imagine it hit something very big that didn't move much...

 

[sailorman]

Port n Stbd ???
that lay-up looks dry

 

[sarabande]

For'd spring and after breast ropes a bit loose, and ball fender not making any contribution to mooring. Don't they care ?

 

[Firefly625]

Don't they care ?

Nope

 

[sailorman]

For'd spring and after breast ropes a bit loose, and ball fender not making any contribution to mooring. Don't they care ?

bowline tied wrongly, the little wabbit went the wrong way around the tree

 

[Gwylan]

You gotta love those French built sunsail boats...how thin is that grp... Spotted At Port Solent today;

Probably there is a pontoon with a reciprocal mark on it. Having seen the 'docking technique' of some of their boats - seemed to be 'put the engine in neutral when we make contact with the pontoon'

 

[Alfie168]

Have you never seen a thrashed hire car before?

Tim

 

[sailorman]

Bendy Toy

 

[[2068]]

That fibreglass looks like a solid enough layup to me ... at least it was, before encountering something very hard with 7000kg of moving mass behind it.

 

[benjenbav]

Good grief, haven't you guys ever seen a panoramic front locker before?

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Mmm, seems a bit of a big hole and a bit high for a marina pontoon parking mishap. My guess is that it hit some kind of navigational mark at speed to make a hole like that. Maybe one of those unlit yellow ship mooring buoys in the Solent at night? I nearly hit one myself many years ago

 

[TeamSpirit]

Tee boned another sun'sail at chain plate bringing top of mast above spreaders furling gear and rigging down. Fortuitously no one hurt. Deposits lost I guess ?

 

[epervier]

The newness has certainly been rubbed off, a new meaning to wrentawreck

 

[sailorman]

Tee boned another sun'sail at chain plate bringing top of mast above spreaders furling gear and rigging down. Fortuitously no one hurt. Deposits lost I guess 

# 4 then :encouragement:

 

[Elessar]

bowline tied wrongly, the little wabbit went the wrong way around the tree

Bowline for mooring full stop. It's a knot that can shake loose under intermittent load (unless you add an extra hitch )

Not the biggest hole I've seen being mended in a sunsail. But that will be quite big when they cut back to uncracked laminate.

 

[l'escargot]

The boat probably belongs to someone too and is leased to Sunsail.

 

[itchenseadog]

We have repaired a lot worse in the past. Going to need need a small laminator with long arms to re lay that up !

 

[dom]

Pure speculation: at the eastern end of Port Solent I've seen Sunsail boats zooming up the marina to temporarily moor up against the concrete quay wall beside the Harvester. It is almost exactly the height of the damage!