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There was a preliminary report by U.S. Sailing...
In Response To: SOme of the chatter ()
...they said the boat crashed into the rocks and broke up... but this was not the final report, which is due at the end of the month. USCG has not reported yet.
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- Whale holes boat off of Mexico...
- Whale hit boat? ...or perhaps the other way around?
- I would be curious to know...
- Story said the rudder was damaged
- It was a fiberglass Perry 47 that had completed a circumnavigation...
- Yes, surprising. The Perry 47 is considered a bulletproof boat
- Ouch, did you really...
- Another take-away
- Sorry. Lump for more of a performance thing
- Minor correction
- And the Hunter ran smack into a rock wall
- Wrong. It was a collision with a ship!
- Frankly I think it was both...
- A whale ate it?
- An explosion on impact?
- A Jet Plane (at many multiples of the Hunter's motoring speed
- Apparently divers went down at the north part of the island...
- From Sailing Anarchy on the N-E boat loss
- SOme of the chatter
- There was a preliminary report by U.S. Sailing...
- Apparently divers went down at the north part of the island...
- A Jet Plane (at many multiples of the Hunter's motoring speed
- An explosion on impact?
- The last 'spot' transmission was only 75 meters from the island.
- A whale ate it?
- Frankly I think it was both...
- Wrong. It was a collision with a ship!
- You are correct, I stand corrected.
- And the Hunter ran smack into a rock wall
- I didn't say that...
- WHo made the Pequod?
- Minor correction
- Justin,, all things aside,,
- Ouch, did you really...
- Yes, surprising. The Perry 47 is considered a bulletproof boat
- He was aware of whales in the area. What can you do to keep from having contact?
- Makes me think about a watertight bulkhead
- Whale hit boat? ...or perhaps the other way around?