Breaking up is easy to do

[Sail4beer]

Seems we take the strength of our beachball cruisers for granted.

This wouldn’t have happened if  the captain made the right choice and gone with a Brent boat.

 

[Al Paca]

Definitely still in the environment. 

 

[167149]

how far back does the front go?

 

[See Level]

Westsail 42,  not exactly a beach ball

Bad boat for sailing off a Lee shore though.

 

[Evan Fullerton]

I was surprised how quickly it broke up also. Westsail 42s have a lot of glass in them. 

 

[El Borracho]

I was surprised how quickly it broke up also. Westsail 42s have a lot of glass in them. 

Perhaps overly stout for a boat, but not for a seawall. Represents a useless compromise: too heavy to sail, too light to survive.

 

[Miffy]

I was surprised how quickly it broke up also. Westsail 42s have a lot of glass in them. 

Most of the Anglo-American boat folklores about boats built oversized so they can survive everything is just cruiser conspiracy to prop up the market. 

You can ground a steel DDG and it’ll break up. Crash a steel DDG into ice and it’ll breach and sink without damage control. 
 

but cruisers with... an inch and half of glass or welded aluminum think they can survive anything. 

 

[Evan Fullerton]

Perhaps overly stout for a boat, but not for a seawall. Represents a useless compromise: too heavy to sail, too light to survive.

I think that's a bit harsh. They go pretty well with 20kts+ of wind and track well enough to be easy on autopilots. Crossed the Pacific with a few in 2017 that we kept pace with but then I was on another boat you probably don't like, a Crealock 37. 

Horses for courses but sometime a brick shit house that almost sails itself isn't a bad option for shorthanded ocean crossings. 

 

[Glenn McCarthy]

Those telltales on the prop will be good to show ya the current direction -

 

[Blue Crab]

For want of a nail a shoe was lost ...

 

[Al Paca]

Those telltales on the prop will be good to show ya the current direction -
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Soon to be on a shelf at Minneys. 

 

[Ishmael]

Video posted by Blunderfull on GA. Cazart.

 

[Sail4beer]

51 minutes ago, Ishmael said:

Video posted by Blunderfull on GA. Cazart.

Hey, your avatar was stationed with Dad in Germany ‘56-‘58. You know him?

 

[Somebody Else]

how far back does the front go?

If the split is abaft the mast, it's the back that fell off.

 

[Somebody Else]

Those telltales on the prop will be good to show ya the current direction -
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Is that for a fact from the above-grounded yacht in Newport Beach?

Because, if so, that explains volumes.

 

[Left Shift]

Westsail 42,  not exactly a beach ball

Bad boat for sailing off a Lee shore though.

One person's opinion.  

Heavy layup badly done does not equate to strength. 

 

[SCANAS]

Try dropping your boat off a crane 4’ above sand a 20 times a minute & let us knows how that goes. 

 

[Glenn McCarthy]

Is that for a fact from the above-grounded yacht in Newport Beach?

Because, if so, that explains volumes.

Pretty sure it is, from a FB post of a friend who lived there with other pics of this landing.

 

[Sail4beer]

The pic of the drivetrain And motor are the same boat. Awesome pic if a sad event.

The rest of the boat must have been as nice and well maintained. I haven’t seen an engine that clean in a long time

Too bad he caught the lines and lost the boat.