Time we had a boating / nautical thread in hurrr. Post pics of cool boats, stories of your boating adventures, and if you're pro crew, stories about what guests get up to
I'll start:
Noumea to Auckland in 5 days on an 84ft racing ketch:
How to rebuild a boat after it turns turtle in the Fastnet race:
(Work is that 58m white thing in the background)
Sending it in a Volvo 60 at St Barts Bucket last year:
An unpleasant watch in the middle of the Atlantic on the same boat, about 450nm out of the Azores (being watch leadrer, I get to play with the GoPro)
This is what happens when a designer of an 80ft race yacht tries to make the boat too light and the builder asks for a no indemnity clause because they can see from a mile out what is going to happen:
Hanuman, prior to heading out fo the J-Class racing in Palma, Spain:
I'll start:
Noumea to Auckland in 5 days on an 84ft racing ketch:
How to rebuild a boat after it turns turtle in the Fastnet race:
(Work is that 58m white thing in the background)
Sending it in a Volvo 60 at St Barts Bucket last year:
An unpleasant watch in the middle of the Atlantic on the same boat, about 450nm out of the Azores (being watch leadrer, I get to play with the GoPro)
This is what happens when a designer of an 80ft race yacht tries to make the boat too light and the builder asks for a no indemnity clause because they can see from a mile out what is going to happen:
Hanuman, prior to heading out fo the J-Class racing in Palma, Spain:
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