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He is basically saying. I have now lost my job...

Le Maxi Banque Populaire V, devenu Spindrift 2 depuis quelques mois, ne fait pas 115 pieds mais quelques 131 pieds ;) (40m, sachant que 1 pied = 0,3048m).

hey crybaby, looks like your boat's the wrong side up....

that you can call: A stressed skipper... :-)

ils le tractent doucement jusqu'à un endroit ou une grue pourra le retourner. L'ennuie c'est le mat et les voiles sous l'eau...

comment font t'ils apres pour ramené et retourné le trimaran.

ce n'est pas le maxi, mais simplement le trimaran orma de 60 pieds... Le maxi en fait 115

Eh! Ben! .."Chapeau" pour cette figure acrobatique du maxi-trimaran de Banque Populaire

in severe conditions, trying to head deep downwind we would SHEET IN when hit by a gust or get punched by a wave... that way effectively reducing the sail area to the wind.

@kadypk also the X40's bow don't have much buoyancy in them. These ORMAs have big bows.

@tincoffin rule number one is not to go deaddown wind. your appreant wind shifts forward as you move fast. when you slow down, the main sail catchs the wind from dead behind and the top of the sail pushes bow down. Add that to waves, you have no control. the curved daggerboards help lift bows out of water, but you need to be at 12+knots for them to help.

@auzzielaz releasing mainsheet would not have helped. They were dead downwind. He need to come up toward wind to keep the boat moving at speed.

@troelatroelatroela no only a couple million!

c'est des choses qui arrivent pas de mal pour la personnes c'est le principal

@kadypk I agree 100% with you kadypk, but you also need to remember that at certain type of sea conditions, the wave piercer must have more volume, as example you can see the first version of the BMW oracle trimaran

@kadypk You might like to look at "sailing sport "lesterj It shows what you are talking about !

Think you might find the apparent wind is actually way forward on these fast boats...

Nah it'll probably be an ORMA 40 or 60ft I'd say. 100ft would be bigger than Oracle's America's Cup tri.

@kadypk So the answer is to look at each wave as it approaches ,then bear away so the wave buries the windward hull perhaps ?then straighten up Carry on ....What do you do to remain upright ?

@kadypk The Extreme 40s seem to have this problem most of the time . In the videos they just seem to get their bows stuck in the water and then as like as not they're over .