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    Posted: 15 Aug 11 at 9:36pm
http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=158980

Scary stuff...  Confused

I'll be interested to hear what actually happened to them. I hope the woman who was airlifted isn't too badly injured.
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Well the.first boat finished in a record.time and rambler was the next boat to finish if it kept going, been a 100 ft boat it is a big boat to go over.

I am currently on Scillys so will see some boats come in here if they need a refuge stop.

Post below shows rambler sailing, just to give an idea of her size.

Edited by radixon - 15 Aug 11 at 11:06pm
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Hope this works, posted via.HTC...
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HTC won't let me edit my previous posts


Edited by radixon - 15 Aug 11 at 11:54pm
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Well that explains why she capsized - there's a bit missing!
Glad all crew rescued safely.
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The canting keel bit?
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Beat me to that one Andi
 
Is it just me, or do Canting Keels have a tendancy to just fall off - every year we hear of a small quantity that suffer from this problem.  I cannot recall ever hearing of a standard keel suffering a similar failure.  I understand the physics and engineering behind the technology (being an Engineer myself with a mechanical bias), but it does strike me as there is a fundemental flaw in the designs.
 
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there have been a few fall off- hooligan to mention one ( loss of life there)

canting keels are generally on high performance raceboats. which have reduced factors of safteys therefore when something does fail it is normally a castosophic failure,
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Originally posted by Contender 541

I cannot recall ever hearing of a standard keel suffering a similar failure. 
 
"Drum" lost her keel on a Fastnet, 1985 I believe.
That was just off Falmouth, so you could say they did it in the right place..... relatively speaking.
 
 
 
 
 


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Plenty of racing yachts have lost "conventional" keels, not just Drum.
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