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01-03-2013, 14:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Vancouver BC
Boat: Beneteau 393
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Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
In Marigot Bay today. Apparently lost her rig in the Grenadines. More photos to come.
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01-03-2013, 15:24
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Vancouver BC
Boat: Beneteau 393
Posts: 32
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
Carbon fibre mast, 2 million to replace. Minimal damage topsides.
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01-03-2013, 15:47
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Caribbean
Boat: Jeanneau 57
Posts: 2,370
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
I don't recognize that footbridge - where is she? I'm on island and would like to see that sight!
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01-03-2013, 15:59
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
Boat: a sailing boat
Posts: 21,188
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
2 mio for a carbon stick? No kidding. Can't be that expensive.
b.
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01-03-2013, 16:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Somewhere in Germany
Boat: OEM, proportional
Posts: 1,437
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
I'll do it for 1.9 mil.
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01-03-2013, 17:03
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hurricane Highway
Boat: O'Day 28
Posts: 3,922
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
Moonbird?
What kind of idiot names a boat Moonbird?
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01-03-2013, 17:06
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Satellite Beach Florida
Boat: Bruce Roberts 434
Posts: 716
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Crab
Moonbird?
What kind of idiot names a boat Moonbird?
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Any one who can afford 122 feet of sailing vessel!!!
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01-03-2013, 17:09
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hurricane Highway
Boat: O'Day 28
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
Yeah, I guess so. Probably one of them Arabs Ahabs.
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01-03-2013, 17:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Thailand
Posts: 224
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
Im sure the insurance company is not going to like this claim/
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01-03-2013, 18:27
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
he could covert to gaff rig with the stump he has left............
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01-03-2013, 18:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hurricane Highway
Boat: O'Day 28
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
Quote:
Originally Posted by atoll
he could covert to gaff rig with the stump he has left............
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Or, this is a natural for the guy who wanted a strawler with some storage room.
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01-03-2013, 18:59
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Catskill Mountains when not cruising
Boat: 31' homebuilt Michalak-designed Cormorant "Sea Fever"
Posts: 2,115
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
$500 a month cruisers who let their rigging maintenance go for too long. . .
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02-03-2013, 07:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Arizona/Rhode Island
Boat: Swan 432
Posts: 820
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
Quote:
Originally Posted by barnakiel
2 mio for a carbon stick? No kidding. Can't be that expensive.
b.
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I was thinking the same thing, although I vaguely remember a 45' boat with a CF mast as a $60K option. A 60 foot boat would probably be around $100K.
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02-03-2013, 08:03
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Petersburg, AK
Boat: Outremer 50S
Posts: 4,229
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
I'll take the stump off his hands, I could use a new mast and CF would be cool.
That rig is somewhere north of 40m (the mainsail luff is listed at 39.9m), going to be a little more than you think.
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02-03-2013, 08:15
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: Moonbird Demasted - 122 ft mega yacht looses mast.
here i have my ORIGINAL 1976 wood masts still intact and without any rot, and his new carbon fiber doesnt make it very long--i think i like my rough formosa better.....
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