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  1. Crash Test Boat

    Learn how to deal with sinking, capsize, or running aground on a lee shore with a 40ft Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40 ketch. Watch videos of controlled sailing disasters and meet the Crash Test Team.

  2. Crash Test Boat

    Crash Test Boat - Aground. No depth, no speed. Hard aground. Provided you refloat without any damage, it doesn't much matter how, but the aim of this test was to go step-by-step through the various methods, from simple to increasingly desperate, and assess how effective they are. Armed with the knowledge in this feature, you can react ...

  3. Crash Test Boat videos

    Yachting Monthly's dramatic Crash Test Boat Series ended with a big bang last week. The article and video footage on this final test in the 8-part series will appear in YM's December issue, but you can see a sneak peak of the action by watching BBC South Today's coverage of the explosion below:

  4. Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat

    She's been called 'Britain's most abused boat'... dismasted, capsized, holed, set on fire ... and now exploded. We knew this final test -- a gas leak and LPG...

  5. Yachting Monthly

    What's your worst sailing nightmare? Sinking or capsize? Have you ever run aground on a lee shore?Yachting Monthly has acquired a second-hand 40ft Jeanneau S...

  6. Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat

    What happens when your through hull fittings fail and you start sinking? Whether it's a seacock or a log transducer that fails what can you use to stop the l...

  7. Crash Test Boat Archives

    Watch how Chris Beeson and his crew recreate disasters at sea to show you how to deal with them. From gas explosions to dismasting, from fires to holing, learn from their experience and tips.

  8. Blown-up, capzised, set on fire: 'World's unluckiest boat ...

    Sailing experts from British magazine Yachting Monthly have recreated eight nautical disasters as part of their "Crash Test Boat" study, ending with a gas explosion.

  9. Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly took a 40ft boat through 8

    Setting a boat on fire, sinking it, setting it on fire and eventually blowing it up sounds like every adrenaline junkie's dream job. Mail Online A dramatic documentation of controlled sailing disasters which has the potential to save the lives of each and every seaman who buys it. Crash Test Boat This remarkable book Yachting Monthly

  10. Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly Took a 40ft Boat Through 8

    Yachting Monthly is one of Europe's leading yachting magazines, and the Crash Test series of articles was not only ground-breaking, but one of its most popular features. Paul Gelder was Editor of Yachting Monthly for over 20 years, during which time he led a campaign to get Gipsy Moth IV sailing again, instigated the Crash Test series and also found the time to update the bestselling Total ...

  11. Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat is holed Part 1

    Yachting Monthly's Crash Test crew makes a hole in its boat, puts it in the water and tries various methods of preventing water flooding in. Is it possible t...

  12. Yachting Monthly Crash Test Boat

    Yachting Monthly and... Yachting Monthly Crash Test Boat - Capsize | Why did so many abandon yachts in the 1979 Fastnet, only to lose their lives in liferafts while their boats were recovered afloat? Facebook

  13. The Crash Test Boat

    The Crash Test Boat. The 'Crash Test Boat Series' is an initiative launched by Yachting Monthly editor, Paul Gelder, back in 2011. The intention of the series is to replicate a wave of 'controlled' sailing disasters. We've been involved as a principal participant of the series for the past decade. Subscribe to our newsletter.

  14. Crash Test Boat

    Robert Holbrook, MD of Admiral Yacht Insurance and owner of the Crash Test Boat, prepares for the eighth and last test. To create a gas explosion you need a mixture of 2%-9% of gas to air. We sealed the saloon from the rest of the accommodation so we were dealing with a known volume, calculated at 18,900 cubic litres.

  15. Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly Took a 40ft Boat Through 8

    Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly Took a 40ft Boat Through 8 Disaster Scenarios - Ebook written by Paul Gelder. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly Took a 40ft Boat Through 8 Disaster Scenarios.

  16. Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat is holed Part 1

    24 thoughts on "Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat is holed Part 1" Rob Poe says: August 9, 2013 at 4:19 pm. ... For all the lambs bleeting about the video, write to yachting monthly and get your money back. Dave Koester says: August 9, 2013 at 8:12 pm.

  17. Crash Test Boat

    The ground breaking Crash Test Boat series captured on video, Capsize, dismasting and fire and many more disasters befell this Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40.

  18. The Crash Test Boat: Book Review

    The Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly Took a 40-foot Yacht Through Eight Disaster Scenarios, edited by Paul Gelder (Adlard Coles Nautical, 2013, 176 pages) Share: Previous The Sinking of the Bounty: Book Review. Next Coyote Lost at Sea: Book Review. About The Author. Karen Larson.

  19. Crash Test Boat

    So said sailing journalist Matt Sheahan in our August 2009 issue, writing about the 1979 Fastnet Race. Matt survived the race but his father David, skipper of their Nicholson half-tonner Grimalkin, died with fellow crew member Gerry Winks. Matt's words also neatly encapsulate the thinking behind our new Crash Test Boat series.

  20. Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat Fire

    How would you cope with a fire onboard? How much smoke is there? How does a powder extinguisher affect visibility? To find out, Yachting Monthly sets fire to...

  21. Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly Took a 40ft Boat Through 8

    From the people behind the UK's leading sailing magazine for cruisers comes Crash Test Boat, a dramatic documentation of controlled sailing disasters which has the potential to save the lives of each and every seaman who buys it.Crash Test Boat is unique in its field, with no other title on the market aimed at explicitly revealing at first hand what happens when a boat encounters a major ...

  22. Crash Test Boat: Sinking!

    In Yachting Monthly's latest Crash Test Boat experiment, our Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40 took on an astonishing two tonnes of water in 7-8 minutes through a small hole below the waterline. The two-part video, made by Steven Adams of YachtingTV, shows quick fix repairs to a hole-in-the-hull - what skipper Chris Beeson calls 'buy-you-time ...

  23. Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat Capsize

    Why did so many abandon yachts in the 1979 Fastnet, only to lose their lives in liferafts while their boats were recovered afloat? Yachting Monthly and Mike ...