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Capt. Mooron
 
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Default They all capsized ~Regatta of Fools!

Try that on a Hobie 18... good luck! I always carried a collapsible
rubber bucket and used that to increase my leverage.

CM

"NH_/)_" wrote in message
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| was this guy one of them teehee
| http://www.geocities.com/hobiegary/SRMystere.html
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| NH_/)_
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| "Capt.American" wrote:
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| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/359134.stm
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| More than 150 people have been rescued during a regatta in Weymouth
| Bay, Dorset, after 77 yachts capsized during a squall.
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| That was a quite a while ago.
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| These were beach cats, knucklehead. They are as much like cruising
| multihulls as a Sunfish is like an IACC class racer.
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| Like I said, Cats are unstable and dangerious, should be used under
| USCG supervision only.
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| Considering what would likely happen to you, if you were put in a
| something like a 505 or a Johnson 18, and hit by a Force 4 much less 6,
| you have no credibility whatever talking about catamaran sailing. You
own
| a heavy cow barn of a boat, what makes you think you this qualifies you
to
| talk about racing classes?
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| DSK
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