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I can't believe that people here are actually responding to Clean's "Boy's Own" adventure story as if it has substance. COMPLETE whitewash filtered through a bunch of lawyers and PR pros. This is FICTION folks. List of complete non sequitors (help me out here): - disruptive storm evading speed...

Pretty rich putting a piece on the front page about people "deserving to die" for calling in a rescue on an ill advised journey. Is this all just about advertising clicks? If so, its pretty low. The ONLY things that separate the Sedona and Rainmaker incidents are several million dollars and a...

PS after all, in the SA account, it was implied that the ship was at fault.

Its possible that the shipping company became aware of the story about a collision and made the web release with pictures to set the record straight...

Have to say that it looks like a fairly typical Summers day in the Gulf of the Farallones.

How big are those seas folks? 10 feet? https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwaybuyeryfrtdb/IMG_0553.jpg?dl=0

"Micro burst" has become the sailing version of "the dog ate my homework".

us7070 and Wess, If you look back through these pages, the strong language and emotional outbursts have almost exclusively been from those DEFENDING GB, not the many folks here asking reasonable questions. The GB defenders have engaged in a long succession of emotive pronouncements that no-one...

Since we are on favorite videos of cat ocean crossings, feast your eyes on the Atlantic crossing of the Pilgrim. Highly relevant here because it is the antithesis of the GB trend. Half the size of a GB, no carbon in sight, no fully battened sails, and they still hit 15 knots. Oh, and the captain...

Clean is all "anarchy" when it comes to personal peeves, but gets very defensive and downrite Nancy on us when it comes to scewups by mates (e.g. VOR) or advertisers.

If you are a golf player with too much money, you can see a nice looking milion-dollar boat in a shiny magazine and go... "that's cool, I think I'll buy one of those - my golf buddies will be so impressed". If you don't have too much money - not so much of an option.

Combination of too much money, and absence of sailing skills and knowledgle about the ocean. Adds to the urgency for a "born again" SA absent all of the rich assholes. There is by definition nothing "anarchy" about sailing (?) boats that cost 100s of 1000s of dollars (should stick with golf).