SIGHTINGS orange ii claims big three
If you listen to the radio, you’ve probably heard the recent ads warning boaters against BUI — boating under the influence. While it’s hard to imagine a day on the boat without brewskis, getting a BUI is no laughing matter. Here are a few things to think about before you stock the chill pill locker next time: • The legal blood alcohol limit is .08%. For most adults, this means two drinks will put you over the limit, and it will take your body two hours to burn it off. • It’s just as illegal to drive a boat under the influence as a car, and the penalties can be the same. You could lose your driver’s license, get slapped with a $1,000 fine, and/or get a year in jail. That’s assuming you didn’t cause damage or injury.
C’est magnifique! In our November, 2001, issue, in an article titled The Perfect Run — PlayStation’s Atlantic Record, author/crewman Peter Hogg told the story of the 125-ft catamaran’s breathtaking west-east Atlantic run. When Steve Fossett’s big cat passed the Lizard on October 10, it shattered a 10-year-old record by more than 2 full days and lowered the bar on this prestigious mark to 4 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes, an average of almost 26 knots. It was sailing’s ‘shot heard round the world’ and a mark that Peter was certain would last another 10 years. We thought more like 20. continued on outside column of next sightings page
Spread, the perfect storm rider, Bruno Peyron’s mighty ‘Orange II’. Above, the broken port rudder continued to delaminate — and disintegrate — the whole way across.
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