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Todd Niall's reporting from Barcelona seems very sound and calm.

Yes not sure what they are doing in the Louis Vuitton , though I guess now they wont be for a bit.

Sorry I mean the same Architect, they definitely have a stability book that they live by.

Yes I thought M5 was taller , by another Kiwi naval architect.

You have to take these internet talk show people with a grain of salt, that yacht report guy last week showed the security footage from our Westhaven event and said that there was someone inside the cat the flew backwards over the Marina !

Thats the same local fisherman -who said she had lost a mast -I saw that interview. The two big boats anchored near her were spun about and anchor dragged but that was all, much like the Westhaven event ie extremely local and impossible to predict.

A bit of fleet racing would certainly liven things up a bit , and probably send Steven Mcivor home -he has made many basic mistakes in his commentary . Glen Ashby and Shirley are great or perhaps silence for a bit .

Advanced warning ?? Where did you hear that

In the case of being hit by one of these localised tornado -I would far rather be on my little Kauri log than any of the superyachts I have been on, much less cleaning up and unlikely to have water down below , though having said that -whilst single handing a few years back I got knocked down by a Katabatic gust and skidded sideways so much the cockpit was filling and when she came upright water sloshed inside as I had no washboards in, current boat has 3000kg more lead on her ...

Yes the Chairman of the company that owns Perini Navi has said overnight that she was unsinkable , whilst his company shares are sinking..

Lots of misreporting going on, she was at anchor , she did go over in the tornado/waterspout just like the superyacht here at the silo a few years back. But how she sank so quickly?? V sad for those involved, designed by Ron Holland with a kiwi skipper and kiwi lawyer onboard who both survived . The sailing ship next door also got knocked about but it was all past fairly quickly, unlucky to be so early in the morning.

This was forecast apparently, anyone want a rather second hand Wally 100 (wally love)?

It did start raining while we were having coffee, luckily a short pedal home

Well BK I will think of you as I sit shivering outside the cafe in Milford tomorrow🥶

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