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    Quote Originally Posted by ebb View Post
    What's the wave tumbling formula? The WTF?
    Heh!

    You can't ignore the captains' and crews' judgment in this case too. I can't help but think that because it was a race, some threw caution to the wind and pressed on when they should have played cards instead.
    Mike
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    Rule of Expendiency

    Yey Mike!
    The Alberg 35' 'Prudence of Chutney' in the '79 Fastnet was skippered and crewed with well developed highspeed ESF's.
    Ego Stability Factors.


    Inexperience with big storms was probably the reality for many.
    And plain luck, good and bad, had a big part in it.
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    Last edited by ebb; 10-05-2007 at 06:36 AM.

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