Early Babas had no lower shrouds, but these were soon added after a dismasting.

The decision to build a new boat for 1999 came after seeing the way Zephyrus performed before its dismasting.

"We got a message back from Giovanni that read: 'Received the news of the dismasting.

However, the key factor was the dismasting of the Boxer, which allowed Enterprise to maneuver to rake her.

To be locked inextricably in the overhang would have been nearly as disastrous as a dismasting.

When successfully executed, this maneuver would be equivalent to the dismasting of a sailing line of battle ship.

'Almost full-on catastrophe', said Gilmour with memories of his own dismasting in the penultimate race of the 1989 Lymington worlds.

The first dismasting took place in 1859, on a voyage from New York to San Francisco, and repairs were made in Rio de Janeiro.

Uneventful, that is, compared to the startling dismasting Monday of the overall race leader, Sill Plein Fruit, only 40 minutes out of Norfolk.

Although this type of chainplate is sometimes criticised, there is no recorded instance of a dismasting, and Rogers claims reinforcing this system would have no impact on safety.

Of the fact that she had given orders that had re- sulted in the partial dismasting of the Swiftstar while in pur- suit of the North Star.

Aboard the Ile de la Reunion Sunderland wrote that "one long wave" had brought about the dismasting of her sail boat Wild Eyes, which was abandoned to the ocean.

On September 5, 2005, the Pride of Baltimore II suffered a complete dismasting while sailing in a squall in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France.

When they heard of the dismasting, Jean-Pierre Mouligne, the current overall leader of Class II for 40-to-50-foot yachts, immediately diverted to assist, as did Mike Garside on Magellan Alpha.

Nearly a dozen other boats retired with assorted problems ranging from a dismasting, like the Australian yacht Secret Men's Business, to a lost rudder, such as the Volvo entry Team SEB.

This, on top of a disastrous opening leg which lasted just a few hours due to a dismasting has piled the pressure on Walker to make the boat faster and produce a result in the next leg from Abu Dhabi to Sanya in China.