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Originally Posted by scambo1
Sailing accidents do happen. If an olympic gold medal sailor can die in a boat accident, well, who knows...Timbo, be careful out there. Your safety is my primary concern.
Yeah, I'm sure it is...
But I'm still not getting on the down escalator in front of you!
As for the guy who died yesterday on the 72 catamaran, yeah, scary stuff! They've got those things foiling now and going about 45 knots!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6dnOlE9sjk
I guess it was 21 gusting to 33 yesterday on SFO Bay. They got a big gust, flipped it, the guy who died was at the back of the boat, which means he was 60+ feet in the air when the bows went down. They say he got trapped under the tramp for 10 minutes but he may have been unconscious when he hit the water if he hit his head (wearing a helmet but it still hurts!) in the crash. A sad day for cat racing.
Luckily my little cat is only 16' so when I crash, it only hurts a little, like these two kids! (this is not me, but it's the same type catamaran, and yes I've done the "Peter Pan" at the end of this clip too many times!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y1bzMljkwM
I'll put up a couple vids. so you can see what these new fast foiling cats look like. They will be racing for the America's Cup this summer on the Bay, July-August. If any of you have a SFO layover, get on down to the St. Francis Yacht Club and take a look.
Here's the crash of the Oracle boat, back last October. I'm guessing yesterday's accident looked something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRW21FubyY4