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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 14, 2017 - 03:58pm PT
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Some serious caca running downwind in 45-60 kts of wind in the Great Southern Ocean! Day in and day out in strong winds, mountainous seas and pucker factor to the max!
http://sailinganarchy.com/2017/12/14/wheres-the-easy-button/
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 14, 2017 - 04:48pm PT
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what was the point of scouring those marks off the mast their at the end?
Leave no trace
of yer phukup. OK, all I can figure is it was some minor repair to the
carbon fibre.
What got me was that it looked like they were running under just the
jib at about 15 kts!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2017 - 04:56pm PT
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Prepping the base for a combo of epoxy and most likely riveting the track back into position. Some incredible epoxies exist that can applied even under water!
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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Dec 14, 2017 - 08:26pm PT
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Total clusterf-k of a gybe. Main hung up on the backstay, broke every batten. The compression blew the mast track off. Top speed in a 56 kt gust=38kts by Stu Bannatyne.
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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Dec 14, 2017 - 08:40pm PT
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And in other sailing news, Francois Gabart left Brest on November 4th in an attempt on the solo circumnavigation record (Jules Verne, currently held by T. Coleville at 49 days and change). As of a few minutes ago, Francois has a bit over 800 miles left to the finish line. If he finishes as predicted, on Saturday, he will have taken a week off of the record.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 14, 2017 - 08:47pm PT
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6 weeks? NFW! He's gotta be juicin'!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2017 - 09:03pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 14, 2017 - 09:09pm PT
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So like he only needed 3 or 4 cases of wine? NFW!
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Dec 14, 2017 - 10:55pm PT
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Whoa, that was quite a gybe!
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Gene
climber
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Dec 17, 2017 - 06:49pm PT
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Nothing more complex or difficult than on my old 470 yo. Sh#t was always breaking on that dinghy.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 17, 2017 - 06:53pm PT
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Dood! My Flying Dutchman made yer 470 look a Sabot! 🤡
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Gene
climber
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Dec 17, 2017 - 06:57pm PT
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Dood! My Flying Dutchman made yer 470 look a Sabot! 🤡
Best laugh in weeks. Thanks.
Sabot references are indeed rare and special.
Still laughing.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2017 - 07:12pm PT
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