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16-11-2020, 14:42
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Location: Sydney, Australia
Boat: Farr 44 Ocean Racer - Pit crew & backup helm.
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15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
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16-11-2020, 14:56
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Urbanna, Virginia
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
The hull configuration does not look like a cruising cat, any idea on the make?
Sympathies go out to the lost crew member's family.
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16-11-2020, 16:04
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Boat: TRT 1200
Posts: 7,265
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15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
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Originally Posted by Tortuga's Lie
The hull configuration does not look like a cruising cat, any idea on the make?
Sympathies go out to the lost crew member's family.
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It’s a Marsaudon Ts5
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16-11-2020, 16:22
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Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Near water
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
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Originally Posted by smj
It’s a Marsaudon Ts5
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More of a performance cat. Lightweight and fast.
https://www.katamarans.com/marsaudon-composites-ts5/
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16-11-2020, 16:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Boat: TRT 1200
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
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Originally Posted by Rennsail
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Yes, the same TS5 won the arc with an average speed of 12.5 kts. A very fast cruiser.
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17-11-2020, 18:29
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Corona Del Mar
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
Reportedly it had the second reef in 16-18kt TWS. Very experienced crew. The hull is intact.
The area is exactly where killer whales have been attacking sailboats: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/buq...spain-portugal
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17-11-2020, 21:02
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Location: Corona Del Mar
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
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Originally Posted by fxykty
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That thread devolved in the usual retarded mono vs multihull bs long ago.
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17-11-2020, 22:10
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Boat: Hanse 531
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
Here's a press release from Marsaudon (from their facebook):
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Marsaudon Composites Press Release
We sadly learned of the capsizing of "Hallucine", the ORC 50 catamaran of our friend Régis Guillemot, which occurred off the coast of Vigo (Spain), while travelling to the Antilles.
The catamaran hit an OFNI. Of the four people on board, a team mate passed away. He was a close to Marsaudon Composites, a regular of the construction site. All our thoughts are with his family and loved ones. All our thoughts are also with Regis and the other two team mates in the test they are experiencing right now.
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Plus a longer report: https://voilesetvoiliers.ouest-franc...1-64af5fb563fa
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18-11-2020, 03:10
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Join Date: May 2014
Boat: Shuttleworth Advantage
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
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Originally Posted by mglonnro
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Mentions carbon debris but it doesn't look like a container would have caused it and left the appendages, rudders, board, sail-drives in tack. Could it have been a breaching orca?
Anyone have a professional subscription to MarineTraffic that would show the past track just prior to the incident.
Unfortunate that it happened on Friday 13th.
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18-11-2020, 04:28
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Nov 2013
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Boat: FP Belize Maestro 43 and OPBs
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
For those like me who were not familiar with the term
OFNI = Objet Flottant Non-Identifié
aka Unidentified Floating Object
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18-11-2020, 06:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2015
Boat: Hanse 531
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
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Originally Posted by StuM
For those like me who were not familiar with the term
OFNI = Objet Flottant Non-Identifié
aka Unidentified Floating Object
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There appears to be a lot of OFNI/UFO incidents. The Vendee page has an article about it and what would seem like some good tech help (OSCAR and Wave Shield). Unfortunately, the price of OSCAR seemed to be about 30 k€, so quite a bit.
https://www.vendeeglobe.org/fr/actua...rite-renforcee
A tragic event, this TS5/ORC50 capsize, with the loss of life. I think it will have repercussions for all (performance) catamaran sailing.
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18-11-2020, 07:10
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Boat: Hanse 531
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/20...kz4Njny9w.html
That's a translation from a local Finnish newspaper. They get the wind speed wrong, it was kt, not m/s, but maybe some new bits of info.
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18-11-2020, 11:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Miami, FL
Boat: Planet, Earth LOA∞
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
If the map shows the place where the incident ocurred, then:
It isn't off of Portugal, more like Spain. Specifically, Costa da Morte as it is called in Galicia - the region of Spain.
Coast of Death because of the many shipwrecks. It is rumored that in centuries pasts the locals would mess with the landmarks (specially at night) and cause many of those wrecks to salvage the spoils.
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18-11-2020, 11:07
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Indonesia
Boat: Outremer 55L
Posts: 3,794
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Re: 15M Catamaran Capsize off Portugal
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Originally Posted by mglonnro
...I think it will have repercussions for all (performance) catamaran sailing.
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I’m not sure why you think this event is so special that it will affect all performance cruising catamarans?
They hit something (possibly) in reasonable conditions and capsized. What’s there to learn?
Certainly the loss of life is significant, and provides a reason for wearing a PFD and/or harness and tether in easy conditions.
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