I got about 4 minutes into that crock of $hit and couldn't take it! PNG is 5k miles from a yard to haul a 50' sailboat? I guess he's never heard of Taiwan, where I believe they actually BUILD fiberglass boats in quantity (or Cooktown @ 650 mi)? For that matter, any container port could haul any 50' yacht ever built and a boat builder could fly in and do any kind of repairs needed without putting the boat or crew at risk with a 5k passage to anywhere!
And just exactly how is one going to go aground in the middle of an ocean crossing and knock their keel off? If someone went that hard aground near land, would they then continue on across an ocean before assessing the damage and making repairs?
And not to be at all insensitive to the relatives of those 28 people (according to him) who may have perished from the loss of a keel at sea since the '80s, that's an incredibly small number of casualties compared to the number actually doing crossings and compared to just about any other even slightly dangerous activity.
And lastly, though perhaps not right up there with the most important things I consider important for an ocean cruising vessel, those windows look a bit large for any boat that might encounter some heavy weather at sea.
And as for his claim that there are no production boats out there that aren't built without a fin keel seems a bit far fetched to me, though I honestly have not researched it at all.
I'm not so sure I'd buy a used car from that fellow.
