UKSA boat Freedom rescued

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The French lifeboat have just towed UKSA yacht Freedom into Cherbourg and she is being lifted immediately out by the boatlift. The LB went out about 13/4hrs ago so whatever happened must have been a few miles out, wind here is currently blowing NE 5/6.

Hopefully all on board are OK.
 
Just walked up to look and yes it is a Sweden Yachts 42 but with a loose floppy rudder dangling about 10" below where it should fit through the hull. The crew seem to speak all languages except English. One with an American accent but yet who didn't seem American said 'it just came loose, we didn't hit anything', otherwise they weren't very chatty.

Good job it wasn't a Ben/Jen/Bav or someone might say something rude about them. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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Good job it wasn't a Ben/Jen/Bav or someone might say something rude about them. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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as soon as you talked about rudders I had the same thought... the real challenge would be to turn this in to AAD (another anchor debate): any ideas how to get hylas and craig to jump at eachother's throat over this? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Perhaps the rudder wouldn't have fallen off had they deployed an anchor out the back.

Any ideas which anchor they should have deployed /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
>Real boats have skeg hung rudders. <

Cobblers - real boats have keel hung rudders.

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Since they were probably a crew of all YM Instructor trainees maybe they should have tried a jury rig spi pole/locker top with anchors to keep the blade/spi pole submerged. What do you reckon? Not a Fortress, too light!
 
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>Real boats have skeg hung rudders. <

Cobblers - real boats have keel hung rudders.

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That's not a keel! It's just an oversized skeg!
 
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Since they were probably a crew of all YM Instructor trainees maybe they should have tried a jury rig spi pole/locker top with anchors to keep the blade/spi pole submerged. What do you reckon? Not a Fortress, too light!

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They probably forgot to pack issue 174 of YM. I am sure the answer to this situation had already been covered /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
ah yes, but some of us like the rudder to do something when you push it over /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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Since they were probably a crew of all YM Instructor trainees maybe they should have tried a jury rig spi pole/locker top with anchors to keep the blade/spi pole submerged. What do you reckon? Not a Fortress, too light!

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They probably forgot to pack issue 174 of YM. I am sure the answer to this situation had already been covered /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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yessss! we are managing to turn this into an ANCHOR debate.. come on Craig! Come on Hylas!
I bet my new ROCNA is better at acting on a jury rudder just as it is in setting in any bottom that I have tried so far
 
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I bet my new ROCNA is better at acting on a jury rudder just as it is in setting in any bottom that I have tried so far

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I could think of a few bottoms to set one in...
 
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I bet my new ROCNA is better at acting on a jury rudder just as it is in setting in any bottom that I have tried so far

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I could think of a few bottoms to set one in...

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yess, we are doing it!
 
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