ProaSailor
dreaming my life away...
In the Multihull Anarchy thread:
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=163512&p=4828385
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RAINMAKER DISMASTED OFF HATTERAS IN GALE
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billy backstay
Backstay, never bought a suit, never went to Vegas
Thanks proasailor; I was looking in the cruising section thread that was linked above; so did not see that.
DryArmour
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Enough time has passed without anyone locating the boat to my knowledge that actually trying to find her will be fairly difficult now. With no radar reflector and no lights, I suspect that sooner or later a ship in the area will run her over or at least have a significant (For the catamaran) collision. Sad to see a boat that could have pretty easily been located and saved last Sunday end up in carbon splinters.
Can anyone shed some light on why there wouldn't be an all hands on deck call last Sunday when they knew approximately where the boat was and had a good weather window?
Can anyone shed some light on why there wouldn't be an all hands on deck call last Sunday when they knew approximately where the boat was and had a good weather window?
Where are you going to lay hands on a salvage vessel? Serious question, not sarcasm here. I have no knowledge of how this works when the object of the search is several hundred miles offshore.
Presumably, you'd charter a plane for the initial search, but lining up a tow is a whole other thing.
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billy backstay
Backstay, never bought a suit, never went to Vegas
And if holed, it probably is not towable. Needs to be lifted by crane onto a ship.
mad
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Is it possible that the drift from wind and current wash it towards any commercial shipping routes?
Not to familier with that part of the coast. Have any charts been posted up yet?
spankoka
Super Anarchist
So by the time you charter a plane, and then arrange to have her lifted onto a ship by crane.....that's going to be about 2.5 million or so, no?
Is there any yarn discussing the fact that in the CG video both sterns of Rainmaker are clearly partially submerged???
I've been repairing boats for 23yrs and when unfortunate things like this happens the earbashing is to blame the captain/owner, but often its a simple parts malfunction
the marketing photos both sailing and dock show transom steps easily out of the water. Without a mast Rainmaker should be even lighter....but in the vid the two hulls are partially submerged at the stern which means flooded with water, sorry chaps there is no other explanation
two holes or two thruhull failures is possible, but I'd wager its heaps and heaps of water over the transom...either leaking into the hulls from salon (swimming pool?) or if waves really big zonking the aft deck hatches - on a monhull that would eventually knock out the engine and the batts
probabs we're not as smart down here as you yanks, but are you folks are skipping over the obvious???
I've been repairing boats for 23yrs and when unfortunate things like this happens the earbashing is to blame the captain/owner, but often its a simple parts malfunction
the marketing photos both sailing and dock show transom steps easily out of the water. Without a mast Rainmaker should be even lighter....but in the vid the two hulls are partially submerged at the stern which means flooded with water, sorry chaps there is no other explanation
two holes or two thruhull failures is possible, but I'd wager its heaps and heaps of water over the transom...either leaking into the hulls from salon (swimming pool?) or if waves really big zonking the aft deck hatches - on a monhull that would eventually knock out the engine and the batts
probabs we're not as smart down here as you yanks, but are you folks are skipping over the obvious???
billy backstay
Backstay, never bought a suit, never went to Vegas
Or the collision with the ship breached the watertight chamber in the stern of one or both hulls??
still makes no sense to me as they look equally flooded in the vid
if no water in hulls and engines working but just need to be cleared when wind decreases, why abandon ship?
USA190520
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From what I can glean from a few facebook items, it seems there was a flight on wed. am to go search for her- I have not seen anything regarding her being found...
USA190520
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My guess is she's off of nova scotia about miles
ProaSailor
dreaming my life away...
Not quite submerged but nearly level in flat water:
There are fleeting moments in the video showing waves rolling up the steps, the clearest (not IR) at
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John Drake
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Me too. She seems to be skiding backwards causing the steps to dig in. She doesn't seem to be lumbering and if you watch the IR shots closely, her bows seem to be getting up on top of the waves easily. All in all she seems to be coping well with the sea state.
phillysailor
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On a dismasted catamaran, assuming you have a Jordan-type drogue and/or a sea anchor, how would you set up in a simple storm, and how would you set up in a wind-against-current situation like the one that faced Rainmaker? How much water intrusion into her cockpit/salon should you anticipate?
