Lost & Found - happy ending to yacht rescue off Qingdao

11:29 PM Tue 23 Nov 2010 GMT

'Flying Tiger 10 - the type of boat lost - and found - off Qingdao'

Last Sunday 22 November, three Flying Tigers set sail from Qingdao Olympic Marina for what should have been a nice afternoon sail off the harbour. A number of factors, not least a frontal system arriving earlier and more fiercely than some weather websites had predicted, resulted in the fleet being scattered. A wind from the north at over 30 knots appeared from out of the blue around 1500hrs when some sites were predicting 18kts around 1700hrs. It was if someone had suddenly opened a door, so sudden was its arrival. One boat reacted quickly, dropped the headsail, reefed the main ...

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by Alistair Skinner