The Sailing Life and Adventures of John Casey

Madness and Mayhem at Dutch Hobie NAs

It was an incredible weekend of sailing with a few rediculous crashes. Here is the aftermath of one…….
yhorin 1
No, this boat is not smiling
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The bow is bent like Wanderlei Silva’s nose…well, he just had surgery to fix it, but I’m not sure surgery will save this one.
thorin 3
You know it was a hard impact to completely bend the stainless steel rod which keeps the spinnaker pole from compressing upwards.

Here is a vid of the “other” boat in the collision.
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2 Responses

  1. Weren’t my boats! I do get wet sometimes though!

    September 14, 2009 at 4:04 pm

  2. jwest

    Wicked! Thank God you are ok. Although it probably wasn’t you driving… you would never do anything like that right? Like washing up on the shore in Jensen Beach?? (That is one of my favorite stories by the way).

    September 9, 2009 at 8:13 pm

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