lol!
yes the Ryndam needs all the help it can get in the looks department.
Yes that shot of the yacht is spectacular ( on old homepage now, see blogs at top of page or click link in post 497 ) but its not all glamour down here on the sea.
Look at these following pictures taken later yesterday when the weather had changed to rough and grim.This yacht is out in the channel...not in the harbour.
Conditions were so rough that I couldnt hold the camera steady nor hold the window open so the quality not great but you can see and feel the struggle....
Speaking as a confirmed landlubber with extra concrete in me boots on days like that shown above..but isnt it foolhardy for these guys to be crossing the channel in conditions like that shown above (pix taken later yesterday). We saw only a day or two ago didnt we that an Olympic sailor lost his life.. so nobody is immune. It just strikes me as madness but there we are.