"Joe" scribbled thusly:
A SAILOR whose yacht was destroyed by a humpback whale off New Zealand
said he had got a good "vibe" from the giant mammal and thought it was
trying to say sorry, local media said today.


Drinking that funny Kool-Aid will do that to ya....


Mr Wright activated a distress beacon as his yacht took on water and
lost electrical power. He was winched to safety aboard a rescue
helicopter about five hours later, Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio
said.


From his boat or from a liferaft?

OzOne wrote:
Hmmmm, hit a submerged object at very high speed in a tri.
Ripped the centreboard back thru the case about 18".
Main hull fi;lled to just above the sole and we sailed home supported
by the other hulls.


That's an advantage of multihulls... redundancy

This boat must have been very badly setup with batteries in the bilge
to lose electrical power.


From the sound fo teh story, he could have drained his batteries
playing loud music (Grateful Dead or Phish bootlegs probably) and
radioing for help. The collision might have had nothing to do with his
loss of electrical power!

And anyway, somebody should give Joe a clue that 1- they don't build
multihulls out of steel because it's too heavy (ie too weak & limp) and
2- if anybody did, it might not sink after a collision because it'd be
going too slow anyway.

-signed- Injun Ear (formerly known as Eagle Eye)