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General Com-Pac and Sailing Related Discussions => Com-Pac Sailors Lounge => Topic started by: MacGyver on August 15, 2013, 10:30:50 PM

Title: Gunboat 66
Post by: MacGyver on August 15, 2013, 10:30:50 PM
 ;D
THIS IS ONE HELL OF A BOAT, SPEEDS OF 30 TO 50..........

Nice.......
makes me drool, my wife asked my why I keep watching these vids...... so pretty.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqXoIhg0dA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqXoIhg0dA)

Mac
Title: Re: Gunboat 66
Post by: MacGyver on August 15, 2013, 10:31:48 PM
Here is another beauty
Hanse 575

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSSRsQp0uKQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSSRsQp0uKQ)

Mac
Title: Re: Gunboat 66
Post by: moonlight on August 25, 2013, 07:28:48 PM
Anybody seen the online pics of the Hylas 47 that dis-masted in the northeast, after striking a charted rock?

It was on charter.

In an even smaller world story, the aunt of one of my customer's was aboard.

Dismasting, was hard to figure, until I got the second hand account from someone aboard.  It was a compression fracture, just above the gooseneck (mast-boom joint).  With the keel stepped mast, and a nice tight rigging plan (shrouds and stays); upon impact at approx. 7.5~8.5 knots, the keel came up.  The mast, restrained by standing rigging, couldn't go up.  BOOM. Blew out the mast.

Betcha there was a run on clean underwear shortly thereafter, to resolve the runs in the dirty underwear!
Title: Re: Gunboat 66
Post by: skip1930 on August 26, 2013, 12:32:06 AM
Don't care for and have no interest in this Gunboat 66.
It just doesn't turn my crank, sorry. You enjoy sailing it. Not me.

I hull fitted fine motor yachts together. Look at this thing, it's pretty plain jane looking.

skip.
Title: Re: Gunboat 66
Post by: Koinonia on August 26, 2013, 09:29:49 PM
Im not a cat sailor but if I was going to be offshore in one it would be a Gunboat.  Fast and built well.