Madness!! Home made Tri

"vertical compression posts?"

Yeah i bet they were just some bits of old pylon he found...

well, we hate to say 'I told you so', but....

"Well, I had to turn back. The crossbeams that hold the three hulls together are a complicated structure that I have worried about ever since the initial stages of planning and building. I wanted a ladder-like design that would have low wind and water resistance and light weight. But the beams also have to be strong enough to resist enormous stresses. What I found after a day at sea was that although the beams themselves, the primary structure, were still intact, the secondary support structures I had added—five vertical compression posts where the beams meet at the main hull—were cracking out. The entire structure was flexing too much in waves, inadequately braced. I could still sail the boat back to San Francisco, but in a storm the entire structure would be at risk of failing. In the Southern Ocean, that would mean one of the smaller hulls breaking free, the main hull tipped over into the water by the sails. I would most likely end up in the water and, if I weren’t able to deploy my life raft or get safely back inside the hull, I could easily die from exposure."

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/blog/tincan

I read in his blog that there is a history of suicide in his family....

"We speculated on Friday that even if the boat does hold together, Vann will never make it in four months. Having now seen Tin Can underway, we stand by that opinion — as well as the belief that, if he's confronted with a good winter storm, he'll might not make it past Pt. Conception. Although she seemed to get along fine in flat water and 8-10 knots of wind, the boat does not look up to handling any serious wind or wave conditions. Just our opinion."

quote from: http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date= 2008-02-13&dayid=72#Story2

dead man sailing(sorry)

and still has his fenders out. spose it is all that is keeping it afloat. so how far do people think he will get.