LONG_KEELER
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Probably on a par with asking the average UK yacht owner if he is still sexually active.
I would say just a few . If any.
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What is Alex up to?
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Probably on a par with asking the average UK yacht owner if he is still sexually active.
I would say just a few . If any.
Poignard
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Bathdave
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There have been a number of collisions with UFO (unidentified floating objects) in the last few big RTW and TransAT races ..without going back and doing painstaking research, I think there have been at least 4 since I have been following them
Given we are only talking about a few hundred boats in the last few big races, and many millions of sq miles of ocean, the statistical hit rate seems surprisingly large to me
Given we are only talking about a few hundred boats in the last few big races, and many millions of sq miles of ocean, the statistical hit rate seems surprisingly large to me
Spyro
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Kola
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+1 It can become very expensive extremely quickly.
Seajet
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Big difference between spotting something metallic with pointy corners, waves breaking over it - and pausing, finding a camera and recording it, I suspect one is a bit busy at times like that, as I think you know - devils' advocate...
Tomahawk
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Seems like Beyou / Pratt have also hit tomething... now doing just 2.5 knots in an easterly direction.
Alex has also gone dark... Not good.
Alex has also gone dark... Not good.
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Roberto
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They took the angle grinder and cut the keel away :nonchalance:
Tomahawk
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Accepted,
But why no position speed data?
But why no position speed data?
Allan
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Since 2016 I've sailed about 25,000 miles. I've been on deck about half of that time. We only do 5-6kts, so that is quite a lot of time, maybe 2500 hours? The skipper has done the other watch. Neither of us has ever seen a container, however, we have both seen hundreds of Whales.
Allan
Allan
Tradewinds
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Hugo Boss is now berthed at the marina in Mindelo CV.
matt1
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thx for the update - good to hear. In different circumstances he could have lost the boat, so that's a relief!
dunedin
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Amazing. Must have been going a fair lick for a boat with no keel to get there so fast.
When I looked earlier they were doing around 10 knots - with no keel !!!
Seajet
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A while ago we ended up berthed alongside a Sailfish 18 in Yarmouth IOW - the hubby skipper casually mentioned the lift keel had dropped out on the way from Portsmouth, meanwhile they - inc wife and young children - were off to the far end of Cornwall...
When I said in my best Sergeant Wilson ' I say, do you think that's terribly wise ? '
He became very stroppy indeed - and he didn't have water ballast or foils to deploy, I didn't have VHF or of course a mobile then to chat with the Coastguard, tried shadowing them at a distance but it was so slow we eventually said ' knickers to this ' - hope sense prevailed and he turned back, never heard of a disaster.
Kukri
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They speeded up as they worked out how to get the best out of a water ballasted sixty footer with a huge rig and no keel...
LONG_KEELER
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Quite a bit of form stability too I should think.
Spyro
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And maybe a good bit of lift from the foils at that speed giving more stability. A fine balance I imagine.