{"id":2433,"date":"2011-11-21T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2011-11-21T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T18:42:10","slug":"puma-dismasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"PUMA DISMASTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2433 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-6-24-11-54744.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-6-24-11-54744-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-6-24-11-54744-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-6-24-11-54744-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2434'>\n\t\t\t\tMAR MONSTRO MAST\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-6-24-11-54745.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-6-24-11-54745-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-6-24-11-54745-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-6-24-11-54745-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2435'>\n\t\t\t\tSTEPPING THE MAST , NEWPORT\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-rig-6-23-11-54583.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-rig-6-23-11-54583-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-rig-6-23-11-54583-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mar-monstro-rig-6-23-11-54583-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2436'>\n\t\t\t\tMAR MONSTRO MAST\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This is the monday of Thanksgiving week. We are accustomed to not much happening during this time. I do not believe I am revealing anything with these photos as the design has proved not to be good enough. It will be interesting to know why this mast and that of Abu Dhabi broke. Both came down in three pieces in similar conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that there were no mast failures in the last race; it is interesting that in a much smaller fleet the percentage failure is quite high.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jack C who alerted me to these events.<\/p>\n<p>The PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG team has suffered a broken mast on the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, which began 17 days ago from Alicante, Spain. The crew are unhurt.<br \/>\nThe rig onboard PUMA\u2019s Mar Mostro failed at around 15:00 UTC in the southern Atlantic Ocean, about 2,150 nautical miles from Cape Town, South Africa.<br \/>\nSkipper Ken read reported: \u201cWe were sailing on a port tack, beam reaching in 22-23 knots of breeze, heading east northeast with eight to 10 foot waves when the mast failed. There were no warning signs.<br \/>\n\u201cThere was no panic onboard, and all crew are safe and well.<br \/>\n\u201cThanks to amazing seamanship, the three pieces of the mast and all of the sails were recovered. We haven\u2019t suspended racing at this point and are weighing are options.<br \/>\n\u201cAt this point we are not using our engine, but are taking some time to clear our heads and evaluate next steps. Our plans may include heading to the island of Tristan da Cunha \u2013 about 700 nautical miles from us, nearly on the way to Cape Town.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the saddest and most disappointed 11 people on earth. We were in a comfortable second position, traveling south to get into the final front and head across the southern Atlantic towards Cape Town.<br \/>\n\u201cWe were planning to be there in five days. At this stage, my goal is to make sure we get this crew back safely and we will look at options as to how to get back in this race.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Brazilian search and rescue organization have been informed and are on standby to assist if necessary.<br \/>\nPUMA Ocean Racing\u2019s shore team is working on a recovery plan to ensure the yacht can rejoin the race as soon as practically possible and will work closely with Volvo Ocean Race to determine the cause of the dismasting.<br \/>\nVolvo Ocean Race control is in constant contact with the team to establish the full extent of the damage and ensure the crew are given full support to enable them to deal with the situation.<br \/>\nThe causes of the dismasting are not known at this stage. However, the rig is of a different origin and manufacture to that of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing\u2019s Azzam which suffered a failure earlier during Leg 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the monday of Thanksgiving week. We are accustomed to not much happening during this time. I do not believe I am revealing anything with these photos as the design has proved not to be good enough. It will be interesting to know why this mast and that of Abu Dhabi broke. Both came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PUMA DISMASTED<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693],"tags":[1031,1030,692],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volvo-70","tag-dismasting","tag-puma","tag-volvo-ocean-race-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}