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July 6, 2013 / by admin / Yacht / 25 Comments

Yachting Monthly’s Crash Test Boat Dismasting

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Yachting Monthly’s Elan 400 test
CRN 60 meter Blue Eyes luxury super yacht

25 comments on “Yachting Monthly’s Crash Test Boat Dismasting”

  1. stuartaft says:
    July 6, 2013 at 10:09 am

    7:00 Perfect time to have a drink of Coca Cola

  2. Simon Wilson says:
    July 6, 2013 at 10:20 am

    Great video – very informative thanks. I broke a mast recently in a laser. Different scale I know but the same issues – big surprise followed by “what do I do now.” Managed to sail downwind with scrap of sail and mast left standing.

  3. 29erUSA128team says:
    July 6, 2013 at 10:25 am

    What kind of boat is that. Im

  4. jimmiethegerman says:
    July 6, 2013 at 10:53 am

    You should really cut them some slack here. This was a neat video which demonstrates what happens when a mast breaks. Of course they could have asserted that the mast would fall to leeward. Not a guarantee, but most likely the mast will ALWAYS fall to leeward with the sails up. They did a neat experiment and had to consolidate it down to a 15 min. video so that it is watchable. It had my attention the whole way through. TOO critical. You go make a video like this and then let me at the comments

  5. jimmiethegerman says:
    July 6, 2013 at 11:27 am

    That wire was already half way hacked through if you look closely. It takes a while and it is frustrating to hack saw though 1×19. The best tool is probably the bullet blast thingy. Quick and effortless. The Hydraulic cutters are great but cost about $2k depending on what size wire you need to cut.

  6. johnnsweeney says:
    July 6, 2013 at 11:45 am

    If you intent is to provide a mast recovery exercise to novices, great.
    But if you are honestly looking to understand how or why a rig fails, perhaps you might apply a bit of science and engineering?
    Contrary to your introduction, it was entirely predictable that the rig would buckle at the lower shroud attachment point when it was in place and the upper shroud parted. It was also predictable that, given no backstay tension and under-trimmed jib, that the mast would fall to leeward. Get serious

  7. richardmg9 says:
    July 6, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    >.<

  8. ianrkav says:
    July 6, 2013 at 1:04 pm

    I guess so:-) Still, it keeps the mast makers in business:-)

  9. richardmg9 says:
    July 6, 2013 at 1:43 pm

    everything breaks

  10. YachtingMonthly says:
    July 6, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    You’ll see how we did this in the next video in the series: Jury Rigs

  11. crkemppainen says:
    July 6, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    Informative. Now lets see how to stand a mast at sea without a crane

  12. Randy Eakin says:
    July 6, 2013 at 3:07 pm

    i thought it was interesting that the cheapest, nearly quickest and multi-use tool for cutting the stays was the hacksaw.

  13. ianrkav says:
    July 6, 2013 at 3:21 pm

    Maybe not:-)

  14. SuperPhunThymes says:
    July 6, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    If the mast is unbreakable, then the boat itself will break somewhere!

  15. percymain2 says:
    July 6, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    no helmets?!

  16. ianrkav says:
    July 6, 2013 at 4:37 pm

    Has anyone designed an unbreakable mast yet?

  17. sailmattdxb says:
    July 6, 2013 at 5:34 pm

    by suprise is an under statement…… dismasted a 20 ft e-boat it was more than a suprise……

  18. DROPPERSPRODUCTION says:
    July 6, 2013 at 5:58 pm

    I really love sailing, that sailboat and that condition -> I can look at this vid all day long!

  19. elimonjal says:
    July 6, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    difficult to understand this guys accent

  20. jaap blues says:
    July 6, 2013 at 6:38 pm

    oops! looks like my own summer-experience at the northsea……..

  21. Graham Snook says:
    July 6, 2013 at 6:57 pm

    Because he didn’t want to? :0)

  22. holmatromarine says:
    July 6, 2013 at 7:39 pm

    Nice movie!
    Please not that cutting nitronic rod is a complete different story, please watch this blog:
    blog.apsltd.com/2009/06/video-blog-holmatro-wirerod-cutters.html

  23. Ocean71 says:
    July 6, 2013 at 7:59 pm

    Top movie. Thanks a lot.

  24. chucklestoo says:
    July 6, 2013 at 8:45 pm

    The bottom section goes as well due to the loss of the backstay? Higher on the wind, would the top section have come backwards and the babystay have kept the bottom section up? Obviously more dangerous for the test crew though…A fractional rig would probably just go at the spreaders.

  25. Waaranti says:
    July 6, 2013 at 8:59 pm

    why doesnt the skipper wear a lifejacket????????

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