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Alaskan weather can be very bad, I've heard.

Here she is, Windjammer Cruise's Fantome, 281 feet, sank 1998, off Honduras, in Hurricane Mitch.

7,662 posted on 09/01/2004 10:53:49 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)

Yes, in the Gulf of A the weather actually does vary... from *bad* to *really seriously bad*... hehehe... though I also remember a crossing from Dutch Harbor to Juneau when for a period of a couple of days the whole thing was just a huge sheet of glass. *Everybody* on the bridge thought this was exceedingly creepy.

Wow... that windjammer was a beautiful ship. Heartbreaking to lose something like that. Interesting sail arrangement. It's like staysails on acid. I'm guessing that it was an automated rig. Those middle staysails look like they rollerfurl or something... so they could control lots of sails with electric winches and less crew. Tragic to lose a ship like that.

7,664 posted on 09/01/2004 11:02:31 PM PDT by Ramius (The pieces are moving. We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)

What a lovely boat, and what a shame to lose her and her crew.

7,666 posted on 09/01/2004 11:29:11 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)

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