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#280835 10/19/15 09:32 AM 10/19/15 09:32 AM |
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Posts: 3,224 Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Things were a lot faster, tighter and closer than the vid shows, both were manuevering and looking for an out. Not a small zodiac, it was very loud. Pretty obvious that is not somewhere a non race boat should have been. I'm just glad nobody got hurt or killed. That could've been way worse. The focus and control that Nathan and team showed was incredible. Tamed the adrenaline and made it work for them.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
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[Re: David Parker]
#281234 11/30/15 06:12 PM 11/30/15 06:12 PM |
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | How do you 'hit the rudder blade' with your foot while sailing? Did he fall overboard and get run over?
My kid did that once on my Hobie 18 on a fast reach, missed his trap hook and fell off. The rudder blade hit is thigh so hard I was sure it was broken, but it wasn't, just left a hell of a bruise (on his thigh, not the rudder!).
His mother was not impressed to say the least!
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[Re: David Parker]
#281240 12/01/15 08:01 AM 12/01/15 08:01 AM |
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | kind of like getting hit with a propeller I would imagine... Not fun to say the least and then someone has to get him out of the water quickly before the "fun" starts (que Jaws music).
But I figure the chase boats were probably on him before he even had to signal for them...
Jay
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#281244 12/01/15 08:38 AM 12/01/15 08:38 AM |
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | carnage seems to encourage participation in skateboarding and BMX type bikes... do a Youtube search on all the skateboarders losing their nutz on railings...
Jay
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#281255 12/01/15 01:49 PM 12/01/15 01:49 PM |
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | good news, indeed. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery to one of the true rock-stars.
Jay
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[Re: David Parker]
#281473 12/22/15 03:05 PM 12/22/15 03:05 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 890 Dunedin Causeway, FL David Parker OP
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Posts: 890 Dunedin Causeway, FL | New York in May! Toulon, France in September February 27-28 in Muscat, Oman May 7-8 in New York, USA June 11-12 in Chicago, USA July 23-24 in Portsmouth, England September 10-11 in Toulon, France
Two additional events are expected: one in Asia in November 2016; and all six competitors have now unanimously agreed to add an additional Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series regatta in the first quarter of 2017. | | | Re: 35th America's Cup
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#281791 02/06/16 08:36 AM 02/06/16 08:36 AM |
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Posts: 2,844 42.904444 N; 88.008586 W | I realize this post was from ~ 2 months ago; and I realize that even in the Article linked, they misspelled the terms of the bones in the leg. It's: Tibia, and Fibula; not tibia, fibia- a common mispronunciation, and misspelling. What a way to break your leg! I'm glad he's recovering well.
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#282072 03/04/16 07:14 AM 03/04/16 07:14 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 890 Dunedin Causeway, FL David Parker OP
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Posts: 890 Dunedin Causeway, FL | Pumping the main? Remember when NZ nearly capsized in San Francisco? With multiple guys grinding hydraulic pumps they did not have enough pressure to complete even a single tack! How could it ever be possible to pump that giant rigid wing? Pumping is big in Lasers (forbidden) and RSX (allowed). This is probably some NZ Laser sailor with a chip on both shoulders about Oracle winning AC34.
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