RAINMAKER DISMASTED OFF HATTERAS IN GALE

[fastyacht]

Whose writing are you copying and pasting, newbie?

Why don't you address the original content of the post rather than attack the person who posted it?...

In addition to not citing sources, I suppose you also steal your neighbors flowers and show up empty-handed to pot-lucks.

 

[Rushman]

Has it been found and towed to port yet?

 

[Seagem]

Whose writing are you copying and pasting, newbie?

Why don't you address the original content of the post rather than attack the person who posted it?...

So are you posting on two sites, or are you a plagarist?

Popcorn, check.

I posted on both sites, but developed the post a bit further on this site, thinking it might get some comments from experienced cat sailors...

My post is original and the only sources are the relevant pictures and stories already in the public domain in addition to photos of earlier Gunboats...

In my experience, cat builders that use masts with diamond stays and no lower shrouds - like many production cats - piss me off because the mast flexes too much when the main is fully reefed and they are too damn cheap to provide some measure of staying redundancy...

However, it's unexpected to find this kind of careless rigging design on a high profile boat, such as this one...

 

[Terrorvision]

We will see when the GB55 v2.0 comes out what changes have been made as a result of our prayers being answered- then it will be easy to see where they found they fucked up and changed it.

 

[billy backstay]

Whose writing are you copying and pasting, newbie?

Why don't you address the original content of the post rather than attack the person who posted it?...

So are you posting on two sites, or are you a plagarist?

Popcorn, check.

I posted on both sites, but developed the post a bit further on this site, thinking it might get some comments from experienced cat sailors...

My post is original and the only sources are the relevant pictures and stories already in the public domain in addition to photos of earlier Gunboats...

In my experience, cat builders that use masts with diamond stays and no lower shrouds - like many production cats - piss me off because the mast flexes too much when the main is fully reefed and they are too damn cheap to provide some measure of staying redundancy...

However, it's unexpected to find this kind of careless rigging design on a high profile boat, such as this one...

If your goal was to stimulate discussion among cat sailors, then multi-hull anarchy is several doors down the hall....good luck!

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Your post looked like cut-and-paste from another site, so it is quite natural to wonder where it came from

Whose writing are you copying and pasting, newbie?

Why don't you address the original content of the post rather than attack the person who posted it?...

So are you posting on two sites, or are you a plagarist?

Popcorn, check.

I posted on both sites, but developed the post a bit further on this site, thinking it might get some comments from experienced cat sailors...

My post is original and the only sources are the relevant pictures and stories already in the public domain in addition to photos of earlier Gunboats...

In my experience, cat builders that use masts with diamond stays and no lower shrouds - like many production cats - piss me off because the mast flexes too much when the main is fully reefed and they are too damn cheap to provide some measure of staying redundancy...

However, it's unexpected to find this kind of careless rigging design on a high profile boat, such as this one...

 

[slip knot]

Can we stop praying now?

 

[Seagem]

QUOTE: " The coup-de-grace was delivered by one 70-knot squall, a microburst Johnstone termed it, that looked no different from the other squalls as it approached. "

Johnstone needs to brush up on his meteo terminology as a microbust is a strong downdraft wind burst blowing on the vertical plane where the wind hits the sea and spreads out, often backing the sails, as the wind suddenly changes direction...

However, this phenomenon is usually found a lot further South in the intertropical convergence zone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst

 

[ProaSailor]

QUOTE: " The coup-de-grace was delivered by one 70-knot squall, a microburst Johnstone termed it, that looked no different from the other squalls as it approached. "

Johnstone needs to brush up on his meteo terminology as a microbust is a strong downdraft wind burst blowing on the vertical plane where the wind hits the sea and spreads out, often backing the sails, as the wind suddenly changes direction...

However, this phenomenon is usually found a lot further South in the intertropical convergence zone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh01heb5pNo

 

[Rasputin22]

Nice find! Wasn't until the second zoom that I realized the scale of that thing. Those are big buildings that you didn't even notice in the first take!

 

[us7070]

QUOTE: " The coup-de-grace was delivered by one 70-knot squall, a microburst Johnstone termed it, that looked no different from the other squalls as it approached. "

Johnstone needs to brush up on his meteo terminology as a microbust is a strong downdraft wind burst blowing on the vertical plane where the wind hits the sea and spreads out, often backing the sails, as the wind suddenly changes direction...

However, this phenomenon is usually found a lot further South in the intertropical convergence zone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst

wrong

they are common in mid latitudes

 

[John Drake]

Define "common" please.

 

[slip knot]

Define "common" please.

I live right on the 45th parallel, and we have had them here, more regularly than tornados for sure.

 

[us7070]

Define "common" please.

one of the ways in which microbursts are identified is by doppler radar

in parts of the USA susceptible to microbursts - SE, midwest - a single radar station might identify 20-30.., to ~150 individual microbursts over the season that they occur, which is typically sometime in the spring through sometime in the fall

 

[John Drake]

That's what I was getting at. Pretty rare. In 55 years of sailing only seen them a handful of times. Like twice as many times as waterspouts.

 

[John Drake]

Define "common" please.

one of the ways in which microbursts are identified is by doppler radar

in parts of the USA susceptible to microbursts - SE, midwest - a single radar station might identify 20-30.., to ~150 individual microbursts over the season that they occur, which is typically sometime in the sprint through sometime in the fall

Thanks. Wasn't getting on ya. Just pointing out the rarity. Hard data a big thumbs up 7070.

 

[mbuller]

Yo Seagem,

Did the micro burst blow the photo of your wife/GF tits off the post?

 

[us7070]

Define "common" please.

one of the ways in which microbursts are identified is by doppler radar

in parts of the USA susceptible to microbursts - SE, midwest - a single radar station might identify 20-30.., to ~150 individual microbursts over the season that they occur, which is typically sometime in the sprint through sometime in the fall

Thanks. Wasn't getting on ya. Just pointing out the rarity. Hard data a big thumbs up 7070.

to be more clear.., they are not typically trying to identify and count all microbursts in the radar zone in real time. the numbers are based on post-processing of the records - which isn't regularly done for all stations.

anyway.., some seasons are more active than others.., but i think that you can guess that we probably get a few thousand or more microbursts over the continental US in a year, and maybe a lot more

 

[slip knot]

Define "common" please.

one of the ways in which microbursts are identified is by doppler radar

in parts of the USA susceptible to microbursts - SE, midwest - a single radar station might identify 20-30.., to ~150 individual microbursts over the season that they occur, which is typically sometime in the sprint through sometime in the fall

Thanks. Wasn't getting on ya. Just pointing out the rarity. Hard data a big thumbs up 7070.

to be more clear.., they are not typically trying to identify and count all microbursts in the radar zone in real time. the numbers are based on post-processing of the records - which isn't regularly done for all stations.

anyway.., some seasons are more active than others.., but i think that you can guess that we probably get a few thousand or more microbursts over the continental US in a year, and maybe a lot more

Right, so not a very rare occurrence.

 

[John Drake]

Relatively speaking, quite rare I should think.