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• Remember that $2.3 million Gunboat that was chosen CRUISING WORLD's Boat of the Year...?
  • 36 hours?
    • It's been blowing our ears off for two days . . .
      • Time was
      • "Speed = Storm Avoidance..."
        • Been touch windy
          • Did you remove all the cruising gear?
            • just the booze.
  • YIKES! The CG helo didn't have enough fuel to make it back to their base in Elizabeth City...
  • Latest update, and the CG video...
    • These guys need to listen to Don Street
      • You're right, the Gunboat 55 is listed as an exhibitor in Miami...
        • OK, sounds like they were not bound for Miami, after all...
        • I was referring to Don's comment about squalls . . .
          • No, it's been confirmned they were bound for the Eastern Caribbean...
      • The rig "safety valve" meme is wrong
        • I always understood that the "safety feature" on a multi was the hatch in the floor...
          • But it is not done in multi rigs.
            • OK. It isn't done.
              • It used to be done . . .
                • Many cruising boats use the same system
      • These rescues will never end. Amazingly we seem to be able to accomodate them all.
    • The USCG video shows one of the roughest seastate I've noticed from a video of a "lift-out"
      • It seems to be the infrared....
  • Why would anyone take
    • Your second sentence makes sense to me
      • Except, that pic is not of the boat in question...
        • OK, I assumed the pic was the boat
      • Um, I'm thinkin' that shot is taken from the bow, not the stern.
        • Looks like a boom overhead and a furler behind him?
          • Yeah, might be indeed. Mebbe he's backing...... : )
  • I'd still like one.... even if I couldn't afford the insurance
    • Ooh, ooh, take me along!!
    • Having read the brochure, I'm impressed with this boat.
      • Disruptive technology ????
        • Yeah, I live in fear of running into friends on the street, and having them see that I'm "boatless"...
        • BTW, conditions not looking especially favorable for a salvage effort, at the moment...
        • 'Disruptive technology', I get what he's saying, being a snowboarder.