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I'm sure the Valiants are stout vessels but I doubt they actually did a 360 and kept their stick. In the confusion and terror of a severe knockdown, things can look like what they are not. The strain on a rig in a true roll is unbelievably high, something it's doubtful any normal rig could withstand. By normal, I mean a rig that doesn't weigh more than the boat.
We'll probably have to agree to disagree on this one.
Aloha
Peter O.
Bryan Genez <> wrote: On 4/8/07, Peter Ogilvie <> wrote:
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> FWIW, in a roll over, almost no boat will keep it's rig. The forces on
> the rig are too much for any boat to withstand. If the wire doesn't fail,
> almost always the chain plates will pull out. Maybe a steel boat with
> horrendously oversized wire and a telephone pole for a stick, ala
> Moitessier, might make it. For the most part, that's not something we'd end
> up finding on the used market.
>
There are three known incidents of Valiant 40s either rolling through 360
degrees or pitchpoling. All three came upright with their rigs intact. :)
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Best,
Bryan Genez
"Capella" V40-158
New Bern, NC
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