Boat impacts

Originally posted by ASok That cat looked quite impressive upside down.  I did hear all aboard were ok.   The lifeboard crew and a salvage team were stood on it head scratching when we passed

Originally posted by jeffers Originally posted by rogerd At SGP cant remember which year but at Rutland. FD on port tack, crew called they could clear the three starboard tackers but didnt see the fourth one  A Javelin sshaped hole through the side of a borrowed FD  ooops    2004 if memory servers Roger, I remember the incident well as I knew the helm and crew. I also recall it was the FD inlands the following weekend and the owner was hoping to sail it....

paul, I was saving their blushes in case they still follow this forum.

Firefly vs. Swallow, Itchenor harbour yonks ago. I was upwind of the freddie on port, lose covering (team racing) looked at the swallow and thought they won't hit, it's just a perspective issue then I went oh drat - the freddie got smacked hard amidship and the pointy bit of the swallow appeared through the mainsail of the freddie and nearly hit the crew in the face. Snapped boom, witten off main and big hole in the side...

As a kid at Loch Earn seem to remember my grandfather's chippendale FF15 getting a hole from another fifteen. They have a bow bracket that couldn't be better designed for holing another boat

I got hit while rounding a leeward mark ....I was in my mirror this bloke was in his condor cat he thought might was right as at the time he did not have an overlap so i shut the door on him he hit my mirror so hard it broke the center plate and bust side tanks great fun when you are only 12 yrs old .