Originally Posted by tommymonza (Post 4455909)

Wasn't picking on Powerplays. But after being in the flat calm conditions an hour previously in the same spot the incident happened, and seeing the absolute destruction of that boat after the incident , and this was before anyone touched the wreckage , it makes you think.

Once the fiberglass skin shears away from the core it's like a shoe box that just got soaking wet.

Racing sailboats get sonograms to detect voids and core delamanation and failure.

God forbid a racing sailboat traveling 30 knots or better has a hull failure 2000 miles out at sea in the roaring 40s of the Indian Ocean.

Racing sailboats are and have been light years ahead of offshore boats in lamination and coring.

Hence the history of failures.


Frog Pond?


I bet 99.9 percent of the boats on this site could not keep up with these Low tech slow sailboats in these conditions.

https://youtu.be/xne1hOLTHcU