sometimes yes sometimes no!! sweet freaking boat!
sometimes yes sometimes no!! sweet freaking boat!
you're not the lord of the flies
I kept thinking they had a chance at recovery. It looked like slo-mo on the way over.
But....nope.
Love the underwater emergency escape porthole. You probably don't find those on monohulls.
I wonder why????
So uh... what happens next? How do they flip one of those things over?
I didn't realize just how big that thing was until these teeny tiny little people started crawling out.
It looks like the bouyancy of the mast is what snaps the mast - I mean, as the weight of the capsizing boat forces the mast deeper into the water, the bouyancy snaps the mast. But it stands up to rig loads. That's some pretty fine-drawn engineering.
This guy went out in a tough way: Death cause for Cup sailor: head trauma, drowning - SFGate
It's opera on skates, that's why we like it.
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