Vendee Globe 2020
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I was just reading about how many shipping containers are lost into the oceans each year- recent years around 800, but Monday the ONE Apus lost 1,900 or more in the Pacific- that's a lot of hazards out there.
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SeaWolves had a great discussion on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CumjcU ... CumjcUYfhA[/url]
Also could be a log or whale, and also could just be the water. At the speed these boats are going, just hitting the water wrong may break something. It doesn't seem as though Alex's damage was caused by a collision, for example.
Also could be a log or whale, and also could just be the water. At the speed these boats are going, just hitting the water wrong may break something. It doesn't seem as though Alex's damage was caused by a collision, for example.
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Re: Vendee Globe 2020
not at the time of collision... I believe the rudder was the one that had fishing hardware tangled in the opening days. I thought the release was that there was a potential for hitting something early in the race as well.terrulian wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:00 pm SeaWolves had a great discussion on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CumjcU ... CumjcUYfhA[/url]
Also could be a log or whale, and also could just be the water. At the speed these boats are going, just hitting the water wrong may break something. It doesn't seem as though Alex's damage was caused by a collision, for example.
The fact that one boat folded in nearly the same place as Alex's forward damage goes more to a general under-built/over-sailed problem in my opinion though. Who knows.
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As SeaWolves says, no man has or ever will create a boat that can't be broken. You'd think, however, that these teams, especially those headed by Vendee Globe veterans, wouldn't build their boats too light. The conditions are rough but so far no one has experienced anything near the kind of thing that happened in the Golden Globe--like a pitch-pole or capsize--and any decent cruising boat would have survived no problem. It is the speed as well as the light weight that is causing issues.
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