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Thread: Russian freighter collided with French competitor in Transat Solo Race

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    Default Russian freighter collided with French competitor in Transat Solo Race

    Did y'all see this? https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-ne...petitor-trans/.

    "....there were no requests to call French port for investigation" implies to me that it was Sorel's fault and the freighter company let it go. Would be good to know how this happened.

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    The collision happened in broad daylight and good visibility this morning, in an area of busy commercial shipping off the French Brittany coast.

    Sorel said he was keeping watch as VandB sailed under spinnaker but he did not see the cargo ship. “I was not sailing particularly fast and I tried to avoid it but it was too late”
    "keeping watch" must mean something different over there.

    http://www.thetransat.com/news/view/...of-the-transat

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