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tortola

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Jul 2, 2004
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Check out and peruse the Royal Ocean Racing Club website for fascinating stuff.One requirement I do remember from the commision which studied the race was that companionway boards must be attached to the yacht with chains.Also one wit observed"never enter a life raft until you have to step UP!! Mack Smith a Florida sailor always wears a flak jacket!How many broken ribs will that save?
 
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Terry Tupper

Fastnet fiasco

Read John Rossmaniere's 'Fastnet 79' People lost lives because of mistakes made. an 'experienced' racing crew left an injured man alone on a yacht who later died because of it. This storm was not predicted, some 'bombs' cannot be.
 
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Didereaux

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Dec 5, 2004
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another excellent reference...

Oned of the better analysis and oversights of the Fastnet fiasco is 'Adlard Cole's 'Heavy Weather Sailing' 30th ed. A lot of references and such to that event. g'Luk
 
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BobW

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Jul 21, 2005
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More good stormy reading:

Surviving the Storm, by Linda & Steve Dashew. Surveys of many experienced sailors and their heavy weather experiences, along with tactics and an intensive look at the Queen's Birthday storm of 1994 in the Tasman Sea, and a bomb that hit the cruising class transiting from Tahiti to NZ in 1998. Excellently written, fascinating reading and very scary *yks Cheers, Bob s/v X SAIL R 8
 
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