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There is only one good thing to be said about that boat. It disproves any notion that more money equals better taste

Sailing boat designed and built to give you no sensation of sailing. It costs a lot of money to make something quite so spectacularly stupid

Brilliant. Go away to sea, and sit a leather-covered chair just like the one at your executive desk and in your executive car. Wankers. What boat is in that picture, Wafi?

The ropes lead outside. That's kinda the point of them.

Tsk tsk. The word is "disruptive". Do try to keep up ;)

Clean, I really really really really really really really think that you are taking all of this way too personally. Whatever the merits of your view, this has gotten bright out of hand and way too personalised. If a friend of mine gets into that sort of online fight, we go around and remove...

Well this is getting very intellectual, isn't it? We're now far into the "further reading" section of the classic Etiology and Treatment of Childhood

Moonduster has been quite open about his calculations wrt the hurricane season, and how he miscalculated. I think he's entitled to point out that the folks on the $2.5million disruptive carbomaran made the same miscalculation.

I don't think that's just unlucky. It's a consequence of a design choice. Chris White's Atlantic designs and the bigger Gunboats all have a forward cockpit, which places the mast 6 feet or more ahead of the pilothouse. The GB55 has the mast stepped ight in front of the glass, significantly...

Did you see the size of the glass area on that disruptive-tech condomaran? A simple sheet of plywood wouldn't make stormboards for that lot. It would need the whole lumberyard

I'm sure that there are other disruptive technologies which won't disrupt his survival chances quite so severely :) They may write this, tho there might be some heavy litigation involved. But it's hard to see them underwriting another GB55 for the same client, at least without some eye-watering...

We don't know whether any pressure was applied. But even if it was, it's no defence. The decision to sail was the professional captain's decision, regardless of how pressure he may have been subjected to. The captain has responsibility for the safety of the vessel, and if he felt it was unsafe...

I have never sailed a multihull, but your approach sounds wise. With the benefit of hindsight, it does suggest a misjudgement by Rainmaker's skipper.

So, was it good seamanship to let the autopilot drive in those conditions?

Wow, that's heavy. Are you really really sure that is how you want to label someone who lost his own home, with no insurance, and told the tale in great detail? If the intent was not to be pejorative, then "narcissist" is a very odd choice of word. Sure, there's POV. Moonduster tells his story...

So far as the pictures showed, Moonduster appeared to be in the process of being very effectively recycled by locals. I never thought that I would hear a well-maintained S&S classic yacht derided as a "shitbox". A wee friendly word of advice to anyone inclined to agree with that label: stay...

Didn't all this happen somewhere near the Bermuda Triangle? ;)

The longer they leave it, the harder it gets. By comparison, I thought that Chris White handled the capsize of Anna v well

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