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I'm no fan of overbuilding, but a hull that breaks in half sounds underbuilt to me. 
In Response To: We might all cut the vessel a little slack. ;^))) ()
Stuff will break and fail on a boat, but the integrity of the hull? Common sense to me says a well built ocean going fiberglass hull shouldn't break into big pieces at sea, or even as it gets ground up, to go into a landfill.
That's not hard to achieve in the design or the building. If you compromise the hulls strength for less weight or cost(speed, purchase $), then breaking in half is acceptable but I wouldn't compare it with a correctly built hull.
Messages In This Thread
- Wow, Bernard Stamm & crew rescued on approach to the English Channel...
- "The boat broke in two..." Yikes!
- I guess like sking in deep powder when both of your skis break
- "The front fell off?"
- Perspective..
- We might all cut the vessel a little slack. ;^)))
- Oh, while I'm at it, the French May get their share of jokes
- I'm no fan of overbuilding, but a hull that breaks in half sounds underbuilt to me.
- Yeah, I'm pretty impressed by the record of these Open 60s overall...
- Maybe they are tough, but the one that broke in half wasn't.
- Perspective in the picture is distorted?
- I would think designing bigger ships to endure storms is much more daunting.
- Sort of like space frams vs. simple spans
- Seems a world of things should break before, "the hull broke into two pieces in the middle"
- Yes, but I thought what they sails was the boat broke
- Seems a world of things should break before, "the hull broke into two pieces in the middle"
- Sort of like space frams vs. simple spans
- I would think designing bigger ships to endure storms is much more daunting.
- Edmund Fitzgerald?
- Perspective in the picture is distorted?
- Maybe they are tough, but the one that broke in half wasn't.
- Square Waves - Shiver me Timbers -
- "The boat broke in two..." Yikes!
