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[quote=MN3][quote=pbegle]EdChris177,  Great story recounted by Gary (and Alan.  But the story I have not heard yet is how Gary lost his Mystere 20 out in the channel.  Pete[/quote]

This was Gary's post after he broke

"Hi folks! Checking in to report the passing of Whisk, the Channel Islands National Park cruising 6.0.

Between the dolphin striker vertical post and the underlying truss known as a martingale, there is a cast piece that I will call a shoe. The Nacra 5.8 has the same kind of shoe. The difference is that the Mystere striker shoe has a locator rivet in it. This rivet hole appears to have encouraged my martingale to fail.

My martingale parted at the center in a total tension failure; it just pulled apart, very cleanly. You could guess the result but here it is:

Mast drove downward. Crossbar cracked all the way though, even through the mast perch. Mast blew leeward, pulling the bows together with via the bridle wires. Windward hull rolled from the tension on the windward shroud pulling to leeward as the mast came to nearly parallel to the water.

The twisting of the hull ripped the inside front and rear crossbar to hull bolts on the windward hull out of their threaded attachments.

BTW, The windward chainplate bent to leeward and still did not rip away like I read that Andrew's did.

Mast base struck the trampoline and drove that through the inside gunwale of the windward hull, near the centerboard.

The holed windward hull sunk to the surface being buoyed by it's foam sandwich construction. That took about 30 minutes to happen since the air had a hard time escaping.

Two sailors in the water in the ocean with life vests on were not hurt. Both had waterproof VHF radios that were used to summon help. Los Angeles County Lifeguards (Baywatch) came to the rescue bearing bolt cutters. Vessel Assist took over the tow after we had the boat in towable condition and we were being given a dry ride back home by the Lifeguards.

When the Lifeguards asked us if we had any injuries I stated that I hurt my feelings.

September trip to Catalina Island canceled.

GARY, sailing the Western Continental Shelf
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Santa Monica Bay
Mystere 6.0 "Whisk" [/quote]

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