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19-12-2008, 20:21
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Location: Winnipeg
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What an incredible situation.
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19-12-2008, 21:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
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These boats are built to minimum standards to achieve speed and are pushed way past their limits. It is a wonder any of them finish.
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19-12-2008, 23:22
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
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Location: South of 43 S, Australia
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I can't even imagine what it would be like to have a broken thigh bone, single handed and in the Southern Ocean even with knowing that help was on its way!!!!
That is going to be one difficult transfer onto the Aussie warship.
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19-12-2008, 23:37
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wotname
That is going to be one difficult transfer onto the Aussie warship.
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You bet! Didn't they send the whole Navy on holidays over Christmas to save money?
Mark
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20-12-2008, 04:37
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
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Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
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Yann has now been transferred to the HMAS Arunta - should be back in Fremantle well before Christmas; think of the money the Navy will save  . I haven't heard what has happened to the yacht.
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20-12-2008, 08:38
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario Canada
Boat: 1995 Beneteau Oceanis 281
Posts: 73
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Vendee Globe
Two crewmen are taking the boat to Australia under minimum sails and avoiling the low pressure systems.
vendeeglobe.com The coverage is amazing!!
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20-12-2008, 10:44
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CF Adviser Moderator Emeritus

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I don't believe anyone was left aboard the vessel to sail it to Australia - rather, it was rigged to sail itself out of an area of low pressure, and a couple of support staff for the Generali effort will try to rendevous with the vessel to sail her back to Australia.
From the report on the official website:
"On board the Frigate Elies will be assessed by the civilian doctor on board and is expected to be taken to Perth military hospital.
The Australian frigate's RIB then returned to Generali to pick up two crewmembers who were left to secure the boat. The Open 60 was left sailing slowly northwards under a very minimal sail plan, away from the track of the worst of the low pressure systems. The Vendée Globe race directors will continue to monitor her position.
A crew from Team Generali, have left for Australia to go aboard a motor launch which will take them out to the area, and they will sail her back to Southern Australia."
Vendée Globe
TaoJones
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20-12-2008, 11:42
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Join Date: May 2008
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I would have thought they would have had a responsibility to scuttle her, seems setting her a sail with no crew/watch would be a violation of some maritime law???
Very interesting story..
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20-12-2008, 13:37
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by James S
I would have thought they would have had a responsibility to scuttle her, seems setting her a sail with no crew/watch would be a violation of some maritime law???
Very interesting story..
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Its a big ocean down there and not too many ships go there. The chances of anything hitting it are ... (did someone write a song...?)
Remember the Southern Ocean is not like the Med or North Atlantic.
I think its a great and novel idea! Throw up a sail and put the auto pilot on, leave the EPIRB going and salvage a million dollar yacht when its 10 miles off port! Good thinking!
Mark
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20-12-2008, 13:40
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario Canada
Boat: 1995 Beneteau Oceanis 281
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That's what I read. I thought it meant it was manned. Also, its vendeeglobe.org not com. That's what google is for anyway.
Aloha.
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22-12-2008, 03:11
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
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Yann is now in Royal Perth Hospital and will undergo surgery tomorrow (Dec 23).
Three cheers for the captain and crew of HMAS Arunta and also for the doctor from Royal Flying Doctors Service (Western Operations).
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22-12-2008, 13:46
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Tasmania
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck Baier
These boats are built to minimum standards to achieve speed and are pushed way past their limits. It is a wonder any of them finish.
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I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. The boats are designed to very exacting standards and have to comply to all sorts of safety regulations and undergo way more testing than your average cruising yacht. Yes; the boats are pushed hard, but plenty of them are still being raced years after the particular round the world for which they were desinged. The designers obviously are "pushing the envelope" in terms of using new technology; canting keels, for example, and new technology always has teething problems during the first years.
Do you think your average Beneteau or Bavaria or Hunter would do any better if pushed hard in the Southern Ocean way down near the icebergs?
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22-12-2008, 15:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lincolnshire UK
Boat: Mac 26x
Posts: 169
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wotname
Yann is now in Royal Perth Hospital and will undergo surgery tomorrow (Dec 23).
Three cheers for the captain and crew of HMAS Arunta and also for the doctor from Royal Flying Doctors Service (Western Operations).
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quite rightly so
and dont forget the efforts of the English woman who broke off from the pack in an attempt to reach yann
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22-12-2008, 16:03
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"The boats are designed to very exacting standards and have to comply to all sorts of safety regulations ...."
Then obviously the standards are rubbish, these around the world boats break apart every time the race is run... keels fall off etc.
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