Bella Drops Rig

[TANGO QUEBEC]

Just watching the live feed from Les Voiles St Barth and the camera pans to reveal Bella Mente with her rig in the water, no further info right now, but after a good day Wednesday, she'd moved into first overall. Fingers crossed the boys are all ok, that'll put a crimp on Bermuda prep!

 

[Just A Skosh]

The top fell off

 

[doghouse]

Damn. That's a bitch. Hope everyone is ok.

 

[TANGO QUEBEC]

Admittedly they did manage to get themselves together pretty quickly after dropping the rig in the build up to their Transpac win.

 

[doghouse]

Money solves a lot of time problems.

 

[TANGO QUEBEC]

True, their last rig save was from Hall and there's a few top Hall guys there onsite with Selene, I'd imagine there would be a chat happening later, if not already.

The clock, no matter how much money, is ticking.

 

[Vee]

Maybe those top Hall boys ought to figure out why the rig failed again. Just sayin'.

 

[doghouse]

True, their last rig save was from Hall and there's a few top Hall guys there onsite with Selene, I'd imagine there would be a chat happening later, if not already.

The clock, no matter how much money, is ticking.

Unquestionably.

 

[couchsurfer]

Maybe those top Hall boys ought to figure out why the rig failed again. Just sayin'.

.

....clearly need more money!

 

[Presuming Ed]

No injuries, according to the BM fb page.

 

[Trevor B]

Bella has two rigs, one for inshore and one for offshore, but I'd be surprised if they both were in the Caribbean.

Bummer for this year's program, which I understood to have them switching configurations a number of times.

 

[ease hike trim]

This was the heavy air rig.

 

[hobie18rich]

2 boats named Bella drop the rig in the same week. What are the odds?

 

[mad]

Maybe those top Hall boys ought to figure out why the rig failed again. Just sayin'.

It's pretty certain they'll look into that (insert sarcasm here)
And why can't I get the other editing details to work on an iPad?

 

[ease hike trim]

It'll probably come up.

 

[markvannote]

The mast that dropped on the old boat pre-transpac was a southern rig. Hall built the replacement.

 

[silent bob]

Maybe those top Hall boys ought to figure out why the rig failed again. Just sayin'.

Um, Gravity?!

 

[forss]

 

[Vee]

Maybe those top Hall boys ought to figure out why the rig failed again. Just sayin'.

Um, Gravity?!

Not just a good idea. It's the law.