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• Whale takes out J/120 (link)
  • This was on the Baja HaHa...
  • When we see whales I put a cd on.
    • I read somewhere that banging noises can anger whales
    • You have a depth finder on? It's pinging away, isn't it.
  • Had a whale graze my rudder 2 years ago...
    • I regularly had humpbacks check out my Frances (pic)
      • Finback near the Isle of Shoals (link)
        • We spotted one just a couple of boat lengths ahead...
      • Alaskan fishermen have told me ...
  • J boat, Glub
    • Whales, not structural failure in this case...
      • Yes it was a structural failure!!
        • It is too bad that the HaHa crowd seperated so much this year.
        • Huh? Being repeatedly struck by a marine mammal weighing several tons "does not appear to be a severe collision"??? (nm)
          • Think harder
            • What I tend to think about... (link)
            • Barely thinking to begin with, just opining that a collision with an aggressive whale seems pretty "severe", to me...
              • Don't get cute
                • I agree - multihulls w/multiple watertight compartments are the only way! ;) (nm)
        • Survive the Savage Sea - 43' 19 ton schooner stove in by whales...
          • steel boats aren't necessarily a lot more expensive or a lot slower
            • Don't particularly agree re: steel vs fiberglass (link)
              • Would you rather run aground on a South Pacific reef at night with a Kevlar hull, or a steel or aluminum boat?
                • Are there (m)any steel catamarans? or 55-foot aluminum catamarans?
                  • steel (link) (pic)
                    • Given a choice I'ld rather not run aground
                    • Yes, another monohull. (nm)
                  • My point wasn't about catamarans, but rather hull material in general (pic)
                    • By the way, the picture of the shredded Kevlar catamaran on the reef is fairly revealing (pic)
                      • The Lagoon 55 was not built with any kevlar (nm)
                        • A few were built in epoxy einforced with Kevlar
        • Where does it report structural damage?
          • SG, there's a thread on SA about catastrophic rudder failure in some J/120s (pic)
            • I don't think those comments on the Harken bearings are very relevant to this sinking.
              • I was just relating the informed speculation there...still, it does surprise me that
                • There is an enclosed tube that runs up above the water line.
                  • That makes sense --hard to imagine a boat like that not having an enclosed rudder shaft tube
                    • BTW, when I say "not surprising" I mean "not surprising for most any boat". (nm)
                    • If this accident was actually about the rudder,
                      • True, hard to know if it actually was about the rudder...I'm sure that was just the crews' best guess
  • Last year the La Cruz anchorage just north of PV
  • It may not have been the rudder