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Here's a video from Canadian TV... 
In Response To: There was a shot on TV the other night. ()
Hey Steve,
...that shows the extremity of the risk of bringing 2 boats together in a seaway... At 1:20 in, one of the crew slips, and comes very close to getting crushed between the two...
http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/cruise-ship-rescues-5-from-sinking-sailboat/17ymedrnv
best regards,
Jon
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- Remember the QUANTUM LEAP, whose crew was rescued by a cruise ship a couple of weeks ago...?
- And, looks like we'll be seeing another cruise ship rescue on YouTube shortly...
- There was a shot on TV the other night.
- Here's a video from Canadian TV...
- Here's a video from Canadian TV...
- Here's a blog link to a Schumacker 50 that was out in the same storm enroute to Bermuda.
- Good story.
- Interesting story, but their autopilot mount really was suspect..
- Good story.
- There was a shot on TV the other night.
- Still looks like a weird rig -- clearly one-off...
- Keel?
- So what now? will the original owner get his boat back?
- So they could hve done nothing... just stayed aboard, and they would have arrived in HI.
- Far out!
- And, looks like we'll be seeing another cruise ship rescue on YouTube shortly...