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13-05-2011, 07:20
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Location: Vancouver, Wash.
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Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
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13-05-2011, 07:24
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Location: St. Georges, Bda
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
Payback is hell!! see the name of the boat.
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so many projects--so little time !! 
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13-05-2011, 07:30
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Location: PORTUGAL
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
ROFL..... beat me to it 'Blue'
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Yet the 'useful idiots' still dance to the beat of the drums.
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13-05-2011, 07:46
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Location: Sunshine Coast, Australia
Boat: Triton 24
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
That's what - 2 whales in recent times that have attacked sailboats. First it's pirates marching into our homes and places of business and attacking us all on a daily basis, and now whales! I say it's time for us to rattle those sabres, arm ourselves to the teeth, send in our troops and kill any whale that looks cockeyed at us. It's the American way. Also, there is probably a secret whale conspiracy that big gubmint are hiding from us.
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13-05-2011, 08:34
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
I've seen humpbacks breaching completly out of the water a few times.
Really impressive, something I never thougth I would have seen in my life.
Never very close but still impressive.
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13-05-2011, 08:46
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
mating season
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13-05-2011, 08:57
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Adirondacks
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
Good thing the name of the boat wasn't AHAB!
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13-05-2011, 09:04
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Location: Northern British Columbia, part of the time in Prince Rupert and part of the time on Moresby Island.
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
...or Pequod.
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13-05-2011, 09:05
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central California
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
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Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
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13-05-2011, 09:19
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
I've posted this before, but here's our encounter with a pair of humpbacks about fifty miles west of San Francisco as we were returning from the 2008 Hawaii race (photo and video): VALIS
Quick helmsmanship by the VALIS crew turned what would have been a T-bone into a glancing blow. You can't see it in the video, but the whale's flukes slapped the shrouds above the lifelines as it was diving. No damage to boat or whale, but very exciting for us. We definitely got lucky.
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13-05-2011, 10:27
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Location: Northern British Columbia, part of the time in Prince Rupert and part of the time on Moresby Island.
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
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You mean Pequod, don't you?
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Yes, I forgot to put it in Italics.
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13-05-2011, 11:32
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central California
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
Astrid, I was referring to smurphny's post. You beat me as I was composing my message. 
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Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
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13-05-2011, 11:42
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Adirondacks
Boat: 1967 Alberg 35
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
Ol' Moby sank the Pequod but was really after Ahab, who defied the white (God) whale. I guess Queequeg et.al were what we now refer to as "collateral damage." 
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13-05-2011, 14:31
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Registered User
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Location: Central California
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Stocking
Payback is hell!! see the name of the boat.
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It was a Great White shark that sunk Robert Shaw's Orca.
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Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
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13-05-2011, 19:07
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: St. Georges, Bda
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Re: Whale Destroys Masts Off Oregon Coast
Quote:
Originally Posted by markpierce
It was a Great White shark that sunk Robert Shaw's Orca.
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Huh!! I was referring to the attacks on other whales by Orcas.
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