It was very sad indeed. To have banked their defense so heavily on
lighter winds was not a good call.

Cheers

Scott Vernon wrote:

he he, I still chuckle at the picture of them bailing out the boat with
their cedar bucket.


Scotty


"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Nav,

Really!! You're not being fair calling those "Solo around the world"
boats mono's. Their beams are so wide and their draft so shallow that
they are Cats built in one piece and designed to sail with more than
half the hull flying.

They were just about as bad as the Kiwi POS used for the cup defense.

Their failure rate in that last so called race wound up being for
survival and not for speed!

Ole Thom