Capsize

Thanks Manfred
Great video.

I'll quote Yann Guichard, the skipper of Spindrift:

"We had 22 to 24 knots of wind on the start line with gusts of up to 30 knots at the lower end of the course. We were at the limit of weather conditions for our boats and it was not great for racing."

"I was unable to do anything at the helm, the boat was turned over with a single blow. We let out out the staysail immediately, but it was too late as it all happened in a split second. the boat was lifted onto the port float and went over."
 

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the hinged vector fin proa

hello .....

here some information about a non capsizable multi hull project
trimarans are out .... for me > for over 30 years .....

I had one !
thats enough ....

http://www.proatech.org .... the very first file >>> and all the others ?
you can as well see the manned version at > http://blog.proagenesis.org

regards >

the team of proagenesis

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Another photo , this time a near capsize. from what I read was that they recovered to finish the inshore race.
 

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