Hydroptere Pitchpoles
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Category: Multihulls
Forum Name: Maxi multihulls
Forum Discription: From MOCRA up to the round-the-world giants
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Topic: Hydroptere Pitchpoles
Posted By: s.a.l.t.y
Subject: Hydroptere Pitchpoles
Date Posted: 21 Dec 08 at 4:33pm
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Holy sh*t! Copied from SA: |
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Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 21 Dec 08 at 9:50pm
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God damn thats fast
And its going to hurt ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 12:23am
Reports suggest no-one was danly hurt.
Looking at pictuires on SA and on the Home page, it looks like they have lost the mast. I assume they are currently negotiating the video rights with the French press. ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 12:44am
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When I saw this boat on a swing mooring in Plymouth, it looked so un-impressive, but my god is it a monster when moving! ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: s.a.l.t.y
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 10:15am
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How much does everyone want to see that video!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 11:09am
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Me Me Me I want to see the video ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 11:44am
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If you have a link save me from searching the www
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Posted By: s.a.l.t.y
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 11:51am
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Theres a video of it hooning it just before the crash
and then the boat floating upside down just after it. http://www.sailkarma.com/2008/12/video-of-hydroptere- sailing-and-capsize.html ------------- |
Posted By: KennyR
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 12:47pm
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What is really scary is that to cover the 500m required
for a world record at those speeds would take between 16 seconds [at 60knts] and 20 seconds [at 50knts]. That is almost just one good gust for us in slower craft. |
Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 12:47pm
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BNS - What does Alain say? ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 12:49pm
 ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 3:48pm
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They can at least lay claim to the fastest wipeout in sailing history, and they lived to tell the tale. Good effort guys, they may be French, but you have to admire that level of lunacy, awesome!! ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 6:38pm
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Wow I have to say that is one fast craft. The impact on the capsize must of sent the guys flying unless it happened in slow motion. TBH I blame that helicopter!! ------------- |
Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 22 Dec 08 at 8:19pm
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wait for a cherub to quote they wiped out at 70 knots ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 23 Dec 08 at 8:01am
Don't you mean an Albacore.... ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 24 Dec 08 at 5:53pm
Is the Albacore Speed Freaks story now the stuff of legend? Will forumites when they're old and grizzly recount tales of it in club bars? 
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Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 24 Dec 08 at 8:54pm
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Just here Mark... I do not think they will ever live it down..... ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 26 Dec 08 at 8:36am
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dont think they will ever prove it ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |