On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:52:33 +0100, Michel Pineau
wrote:

Wayne.B a écrit :
http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001
or
http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db
They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like
they are making at least 20 kts through big waves.

Ther was an explanation onto "sailing anarchy" :

"From Nick Bubb, Watch Leader on Kosatka, Team Russia:
My personal highlight of the race so far was the other morning; big
rolling seas, overcast sky, freezing water, 40 knots of breeze, A6
(fractional spinnaker) and 2 reefs, fully stacked aft, Mikey on the
pumps Jez trimming, me on the wheel. We were just blasting along with
prolonged periods pf over 30 knots boat speed and a max speed of 34
knots. However this was then followed by near disaster as soon after the
watch change, Mikey and I were in the bow bailing out when we heard the
boat take off, down what must have been a huge wave, as we hit the
bottom, with nowhere to go, the boat had to either roll into the breeze
and broach or Chinese gybe (an accidental gybe).
Unfortunately the helmsman was powerless to control her and we `chinesed.'
There was carnage on deck and down below. Sail stack in the water, keel
on the wrong side, crew clipped on half underwater, runners on the wrong
side, boom in the air, spinnaker in the rig, boat half under water, kit
everywhere down below as various missiles launched themselves at the off
watch. After what seemed like an eternity we sorted the keel out,
completed the gybe, got the kite down and gybed back to our proper
course, all very relieved still to have a rig in the boat!!"

Thanks to Luc Habert for the information.
Regards.
Michel.

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Thank you.