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Tall Ship Concordia sunk of coast of Brazil
"Roger Long" wrote in message ... On Feb 21, 1:25 pm, Bob wrote: White Squall See the movie bob You would suggest a Hollywood movie as having anything credible to contribute to this question? You never cease to amaze me Bob. Reading this about the subject of the movie would be more useful: http://books.google.com/books?id=XHR...um=2&ct=result Sorry, long link. Hope it works. You may have to cut and paste. If it doesn't work, look for the "Read About it Here" link on this page: http://www.rogerlongboats.com/Stability.htm The "Albatross" had just about the same stability characteristics as the "Marques". In the big study I did for ASTA and the Coast Guard, all the vessels we could get data on that hadn't capsized plotted in a group up in the top right hand corner of the graphs. "Albatross", "Marques", and another vessel that had also capsized were down in a group in the lower left with lots of white space in between. There were no other vessels down there that had not capsized. It didn't take a microburst in those cases. When sailing at a normal heel angle with the deckedge about at the waterline, the "Marques" only needed a 22% increase in wind speed to capsize her. "Albatross" was about the same. -- Roger Long ------------ Never saw the "Perfect Storm" either. After reading the authors admissions that he knew nothing about the sea or boats, reading his imaginary scenario about how the boat went down and his less than respectfull descriptions of the people involved, I didn't just put the book down but threw it in the trash. If Hollywood followed reality they'd never sell any tickets. How's it going Roger? |
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