MrWolf

Its not the ideal time to be making comments such as these.

Take a look at the damage, its on the hard at Okahu. The area damaged isn't under water when it happens. The furthest anything goes under the water righting it is only about 3 metres (possibly 5 psi), and there is no other damage to any other sealed hulls ? Where as the damage is a classic egg shell compressive failure ! Plus I imagine in a water pressure explosion as soon as there is one small hole the pressure would equalise quite quickly ?

Wrong Jordan. This was a compressive failure, we know this because the break is inwards. Not an outward explosion like you describe. There is a risk associated with "egg Shell" methods of construction such as Tortured ply, this is what happens when they fail. If the hole were due to the pressure difference, it would be an inward break would it not.? Plausable explanation i think? I would never have expected a hole such as that, cracks and splits sure but that hole is interesting. I cannot work out how you would place those two surfaces under sufficient compressive load to

Looks like its going to be at least 3 months before wolfy is sailing again

Wrong Jordan. This was a compressive failure, we know this because the break is inwards. Not an outward explosion like you describe. There is a risk associated with "egg Shell" methods of construction such as Tortured ply, this is what happens when they fail.

They righted it end over end. The Main beam is quite far aft on Wolfy, so it has very little leverage just as its coming up, so I'd guess that's what caused it. i don't know of any tri's righted sideways, they just drag across the surface of the water. To stop it dragging they had two guys sitting on each float to hold it down so ther back would dig in, then after that happens the bow can lift out. They broke some very heavy rope so i'd guess they are seeing in the region of 6 tonnes of load.

They sent it, and it went arse over bow. No waves were required just a plenty strong gust.

The hole was caused as the boat was being righted, and it caused by the massive amount of compression between the centre of buoyancy and the beam on which the bridle was attached. The boom also only broke at the very last instant of being righted. The outside of the boat the hole is the full side of the boat around 2m long and is far worse than the photo's on the site.

For the life of me I cannot see why Fullfoil is making comments such as those. I am very grateful for all the help in getting wolfie upright again. Adam and Russell off Taeping went out of their way to help the Coastguard who were just awesome. No one should criticise any of the crew, they have all the sailed the boat many times before. I had complete faith in them when I lent them my boat, and I am even more impressed by all of their characters right now, I couldn't have left my boat in better hands. In Kate we are very lucky to have a super experienced multihull crew who punches mi

For what its worth, there is some good advice on here. Basically the Nova was designed with the large overlapping genoa you currently have. It needs that sail to get performance in lighter airs.I think a lot of sailing in Auckland is done in less than 15 knots and hence that big genoa will more than pay its way. As the breeze increases you can get away with a number 2, similar hoist, shorter foot. I think the correct solution is not so much to cut down the old sail size (as you can probably do with the power in a majority of the sailing you are likely to do) but rather to make the