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If the coachroof can be so easily disrupted, shouldn't the hatches into the hulls be made pretty much bombproof to prevent all of that downflooding?

Tell that to the Mexican that sailed a Finn to the Marquesas.

Maybe it's just me, but I've always considered those boards under the bunks and settees to be sacrificial...IOW, they're boat salvage materials. Port blown out? Screw this piece of marine ply over it. If it were me, my prime directive (thank you Mr. Spock) would be to 1) get the rig off of...

Water is water. Are you saying that the Hatteras water is/was so extreme that RM shouldn't have been out there!

Oh, so Phaedo wasn't intended for passagemaking?

Well, if you look at the Phaedo dismasting, you might reconsider.

Well, Phaedo dropped her rig 600 miles out and motored home. I don't know what that means, other than a competent crew chucked a broken rig over the side, MANAGED TO NOT FUCKING FUCK UP THEIR SAIL DRIVES, and motor home. From 600 miles out in the middle of the fucking Pacific. Now, either the...

You're on large doses of prednisone aren't you.

There probably isn't much risk of crossing swords at the winch cluster, because the buttons are someplace even more disruptive. Maybe even outside?

. Thats step number one in becoming disruptive.

Clean might not like the thrashing his friend is taking, but he's largely responsible for it. Had he actually written and released the thing in a timely manner his buddy might have been saved a world of grief. It isn't like SA (and a lot of pilots forums) are renknown for their quality of mercy.

Yeah, but you owned it. It wasn't Fijii's fault, nor S&S, nor some wx forecaster. You took your shot, rolled snake eyes, and then told everyone about it. You didn't try to make yourself look like a victim.

If I had but one minor critique, I'd change bad boundaries to no boundaries; but that's trivial. It's so apparent that he's going down on the GB skipper during this "innerview" that it almost makes me gag. No one did a fucking thing wrong, not a bad decision was made. Yet a boat was lost and...

I would think that being on the wx beam of a big ship would pin you there in a disabled boat with absolutely no way to escape.

. I like your style. Phaedo got off light, none of the picture windows shattered.

Battery powered sawzall. Next question pls.

Well, I happen to know that if I can intentionally get in the way, I can conversely stall the boat and let it pass in front of me. Squalls are not major wx systems, and bursts within them are even more localized. They also tend to move at the speed of the weather system, or tradewinds in...

So, if I was say, sailing (sort of) in winds that were consistently at 60-65 kts (storm jib, no main), I should expect my rig to come down in a bigger gust? Or are you claiming that the extremely localized nature of a downburst makes them more violent, even at an equivalent windspeed?

Take a fucking class then, and quit arguing with me dumbass.

You can easily determine forward speed of a squall by plotting the range and bearing rates if there is enough moisture in the cell. Don't turn the rain clutter knob to off. Now, will you be able to KNOW the intensity of the embedded up and downdrafts? No, not in an absolute sense. There's...