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Mike Golding

Mike Golding

Yachtsman

Oct 16, 2026

38:58
It's-
38:59
Yeah, I mean, the funny thing is that m- this is racing.
39:03
The truth is these are very technical boats.
39:05
So that was a, what's called a, um, um, a fabricated keel.
39:11
It was a steel keel, so we'd gone away from the carbon.
39:14
We'd gone a steel fabricated keel, supposedly a very safe and light solution.
39:19
Um, and what had happened is some point in the Southern Ocean or at Cape Horn, it had developed a crack filled with water, and then there'd been a thing called, uh, some special fast corrosion, because it's very aerated, the top of the keel.
42:35
Mm.How do you know where that is?

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