Collision with ship: how we survived

10:56 PM Mon 15 Nov 2010 GMT

'Damaged Pontus - with green paint from collision - back at East London' .

Australian Jessica Watson did it last year when she didn't check her horizon carefully, and South African Russell Furlong did it when his crew member made the same mistake last week. Watson survived by a miracle, as did the yacht Pontus off the coast of South Africa (see Sail-World story ). As it is so unlikely for a yacht to survive a collision with a ship, doubt had been expressed in South Africa about the story. Furlong describes what happened. It was undoubtedly a collision. The yacht Pontus still has the bulk carrier's green paint on her. I assume the ship's ...

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by Sail-World Cruising/Russell Furlong