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• Unbelievable!!! My buddy, who was sailing around the Atlantic was just rescued by an oil tanker, mid Atlantic
  • They have had more than their share of bad luck.
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      • Winds not too bad, 15kts from just north of east
    • That's not bad luck
      • Sadly Jim says the boats adrift.
        • Scuttle?
          • If it was me, the LAST thing I'd do is turn a floating broken boat, into a sinking broken boat BEFORE
            • You're kind of dammed if you do and
            • To Scuttle or Not to Scuttle...That is the Question
              • How does scuttling affect
                • You and I don't have that option
                  • Not only that
                    • Yeah, you guys with....
          • It will probably wash up...
    • What do you bet it was a fin keel spade rudder. How many
      • I haven't heard of one "falling" off that often...
        • In all seriousness, IMHO, if you're going to
          • yep, now I know why they call them crab crushers
          • Yessir, I believe your right...
            • I'll agree also!
              • yep
      • They're like an old rusty door hinge. A few screws can fall out, the pin can break, it still swings.
      • Neither do skeg hung rudders.
        • Back and fill, back and fill, back and fill.
          • Boy isn't that the truth...
          • I've smacked more docks with Second Chance in a year than I did in 12 years with JA
  • Geez, kinda like ten kids. You gotta figure out what's causing it.
  • The CS' rudder (like the Valiant 40's) is a modified skeg rudder.
    • You can't compare the strength of a rudder design like that to the old barn door rudder, Steve.
      • The barn door is, if nothing else, strong ;^)))
        • Thank you. That's all we're debating. I doubt the captain of the CS36 gave a wit about turning radius,
    • To SG's point..
    • I'll bet this is what happened then. If the
  • Has the rescue video been posted on YouTube yet...?
    • Dude you never did sign our guest logbook
      • The barn door rudder takes some experience to master.
    • Not yet, but in this day and age someone on the oil tanker likely taped it.
      • No escape today. You own any boating stunt you pull.