Whales are hard, apparently.

Started by SeaHusky, February 22, 2016, 05:47:31 PM

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February 22, 2016, 05:47:31 PM Last Edit: February 22, 2016, 05:59:10 PM by SeaHusky
A couple I used to know are doing a circumnavigation on their Morgan Out Island 511. The 51 foot ketch has a folding keel which was severely damaged in the pacific after a collision with a humpback whale. They have interrupted their circumnavigation and returned to Sweden to make some money for the rather expensive repairs.
http://futurewinds.se/Fiji.htm

What was left of the keel.
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SailorTom

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February 23, 2016, 08:06:53 AM
Suppose it matters just how big your boat is. 
When CVN-70 hit whale off the coast of southern California back in the early 1980s, the whale lost!
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